Thanks to a popular Greasemonkey script turned Firefox add-on you can now rip videos from Facebook to watch whenever and where ever you want to. The simply named Facebook Video add-on for Firefox will help you get the job done.
How Does It Work?
This extension adds the functionality to download, convert or embed videos posted on Facebook. When you click the download video link, the video will open as a .mp4 file. You can then select, “Save Page As” from [...]
The talk about Firefox 3.5 supporting the HTML 5 support for playing videos without the need of a player was pretty sweet. Seeing it in action, now that I have Firefox 3.5 installed is even sweeter. You know what would put the icing on the cake? If I could make those videos go to full screen resolutions.
The Full Screen Video add-on for Firefox does that. Once installed, it adds a “Full Screen” menu option, when you right-click on any [...]
/ June 2, 2009 -
News
As a part of a new marketing campaign, the fine people at Mozilla want to know how fast are you? They are asking for anybody and everybody to start sending them a video of your speediest skill, no matter what it might be.
How do you participate? Here are the details from Mozilla:
It’s easy to participate in Fastest Firefox. Pick your talent (knitting, flipping burgers, brushing your teeth, whatever!) and make a video doing your thing—FAST! Follow the steps below [...]
The extension, NetVideoHunter, promises you a world of easy to download videos and music from any YouTube-like video sharing web site. With it, you can download media from places such as YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more.
One more nice feature that comes with this add-on is that before you download any video or music, you can play it in a built-in media player. It has both fullscreen and video smoothing capabilities too, to make your viewing experience [...]
A popular add-on for Firefox, to help you download all the links, movies and audio clips on a single page at maximum speeds, is FlashGot. Created by the same man who brought us NoScript, this lightweight and reliable external download manager will let you download a plethora of information with a single click.
While this extension has many good features, my favorite might be the FlashGot All. By selecting this from the menu (or by hitting Ctrl+F3) you can [...]
Say, you like the fact that Google has started to thumbnail YouTube results in search, but you just want a ‘bit more. GoogleTube, an add-on for Firefox, will allow you to play the YouTube videos inside of the Google search results window.
Once installed, all you have to do is hit the YouTube icon next to the search result link. Instantly the video starts playing, without the need to open up a new tab or window. Also, you can also [...]
Video DownloadHelper is by far the most popular of the video downloading add-ons out the for Firefox. Only proof you need is to check out the most popular downloads page yourself. It gets 480,759 weekly downloads. With that in mind, I wanted to talk with the man behind what might be one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox, ever. Who is this man? Michel Gutierrez is the brain behind the Video DownloadHelper and I was lucky enough to [...]
/ May 21, 2008 -
News
Have a hidden talent of being able to walk people through something? Coming from the web hosting world, screencast tutorials are nothing new to me – see them used every day. Now there is a new contest from Mozilla that will get you involved with sharing knowledge via your own desktop tutorial.
Here are a few more details about the contest:
Get ready to participate in the Firefox Screencasts contest! This is your chance to use your talents and passion for Firefox [...]
/ October 28, 2006 -
Hacks
Media Pirate is an image and video downloader and makes it easy to steal barrow media content from websites like blip.tv, break.com, dailymotion.com, ifilm.com, media.putfile.com, metacafe.com, myvideo.de, video.google.com, vidilife.com, youtube.com, zippyvideos.com and many other Web sites.
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You have to enjoy a Firefox extension when the name pretty much sums up what it is all about. The ilovevideoz Toolbar is one of those extensions. This tool is one that will help you keep up to date with all the different video sharing Web sites and make sure you have seen all the best content on each.
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