Save your Firefox cache flv files (Macromedia Flash Video)
October 23rd, 2007
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Today we will see how to save your flv taken from your Firefox cache. Due to using some specific console commands this tutorial is useful only for a Unix-like system, not for Windows. I’m sorry 
Before starting let’s say there are tools, like Clive or Videodownload (firefox plugin), made for similar purpose but they work in a different way:
- they works on specific sites only (like Youtube), and that’s a problem because some sites are not supported
- If you have some bandwith limit issue, Clive and Videodownload force you to re-download the video
Especially the second point, to me, it’s a problem because I use an UMTS connection and it works using a limited bandwith per month and generally a flv file consumes some MBs.
Let’s see my way.
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