
Select the video size and format from the drop-down list. Click the blue arrow/clapperboard icon in the menu bar to see the options. You can pause the video at this stage - it will still download. When it changes to a blue arrow with a movie ‘clapperboard’ icon (typically 1 to 10 seconds after the video starts), the file is ready to download. Go to YouTube and find a video you want to download. After you’ve installed the add-on and restarted Firefox, you’ll see a small gray down arrow icon in the menu bar. So here’s the ‘missing manual’ for the Download Flash and Video add-on for Firefox. Nothing to tell you how it works and what to do when it doesn’t work (as happens occasionally). It works well, BUT there’s NO documentation. I checked out the reviews, then decided to install it. Within minutes got back to me recommending ‘Download Flash and Video’ add-on for Firefox ( ). But what was a good one? Off to Twitter, where I asked my followers for a recommendation. The problem was, when I did a Google search, there were many applications out there that profess to do just that. It was time to find some software that would allow me to download a YouTube video and save it to my computer.
Searching on YouTube in the hope of finding something I viewed 3 months ago was getting painful - I was tired of trying to remember a video’s name or presenter, even if I knew in general what the content was about.
I wanted to download some quilting videos from YouTube so that I always had them available whenever I needed to remind myself how to do a particular technique.