Video DownloadHelper
Another add-on for Firefox for downloading videos from YouTube pages is
Video
DownloadHelper. The add-on works in Chrome as well and also will allow
you to download videos from other sites as well as the YouTube site. Like
the
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 extension, it allows you to select from
various resolutions for the downloaded video, so you can trade off resolution
against file size, i.e., a higher resolution and larger file size or a lower
resolution and smaller file size.
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Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Add-on for Firefox
If you wish to be able to download
YouTube videos to your
own computer, you can use a site, such as
Offliberty or,
for the Firefox web browser, you can install an extension, aka add-on, that
will provide that capability from within the browser. One such add-on for
Firefox is
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 by
ialc.
The extension places a download button on
YouTube pages allowing you
to easily download the video on the page as an MP4 or FLV file. If you select
MP4 as the format for the downloaded file, you can choose from two resolutions:
720p or 360p.
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Session Manager Firefox Add-on
The Firefox add-on
Session Manager created by
Michael Kraft allows you to save a Firefox session at any time. You can
save and restore the state of all or only some Firefox windows and
tabs. The session data saved includes history, text data, and cookies.
All sessions are stored in the sessions folder inside your profile
directory and can be moved around as with any other file.
On a Microsoft Windows 8 system, the sessions folder is in
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\profiledir\sessions.
You can find the value of %APPDATA% at a command prompt by
issuing the command echo %APPDATA%.
C:\>echo %APPDATA%
C:\Users\JDoe\AppData\Roaming
The value of the
profile beneath the
Profiles
directory will vary. E.g.:
C:\Users\JDoe\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\nqp8058i.default\sessions
To get to that folder,
simply select "Open Session Folder" in Session Manager's menu (might not work on
all OSes), which you can get to in Firefox on Microsoft Windows by using the
Alt-T key combination to show the Tools menu, then selecting
Session Manager. Session Manager also allows you to reopen the 10 last
closed windows and tabs. You do not need to restart Firefox after installing
the Session Manager add-on to begin using it.
To save the Firefox session at any time, take the following steps on a
Microsoft Windows system (applies to Firefox 31.0 and Session Manager 0.8.1.5):
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Use Alt-T key combination to bring up the Tools menu.
Alternatively, you can click on the blue floppy disk icon that is placed on
the Firefox address bar when you install Session Manager. That icon appears
to the left of another icon that is a red cross in a white box which will allow
you to reopen recently closed tabs or windows.
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Select Session Manager.
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Select Session Manager again.
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Select Save Session.
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A window will open where you can name the session you are about to save.
Provide a name for the session you wish to save in the "Name" field, which
could be the date or anything you like. You can uncheck any tabs you don't
want saved for the session.
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Click on Save Session. Note: when you click on it, it may appear
that nothing is happening, but don't click again, give it a few seconds to
complete the save.
To load a saved session, go through the same steps to bring up Session
Manager, but instead of selecting Save Session select
Load Session. You will then see a list of any saved sessions.
If Firefox crashes or you reboot the system without closing Firefox, you
will see a window like the one below when you open Firefox, which will
give you the option of restoring Firefox to the state it was in when it
crashed or from a prior saved session.
References:
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Session Manager
Add-Ons
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Session Manager
mozdev.org
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Read It Later Firefox Addon
If you would like to be able to save webpages you come across for later reading,
if you are using Firefox, you can use the
Read It Later Add-on for Firefox.
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HttpFox Firefox Addon
If you need to observe the data flowing between a website and your
browser when you visit a website, if you are using Firefox, you
can use the
HttpFox Add-on for Firefox.
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