Comments on: How To Save Flash Video From Firefox Cache Folder

By: Tarun

Tarun — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:22:26 +0000

For all of those who are having the problem of auto deletion of cache files after the buffering is complete.

Here’s what i do
> Copy the concerned file from the cache folder, make sure you pick the right one(its size will be continuously increasing as buffering progresses). while Firefox is playing your video(music video, porn whatever).
> 10 or 20 seconds(depends on you how quick you are as it doesnt take more than 2 seconds) before the completion of buffering you copy it somewhere in the hardrive(Desktop is the most convenient).

Two or three seconds of trimmed video wont bother that much.

One more very important thing this works for Firefox versions prior to Firefox 4 as in later versions they split the cache file into puddle of small cache files,
it will be like searching a needle in a haystack

By: waleed

waleed — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:04:47 +0000

I am using window 7, Firefox 5 and IDM 6.07, but I could not download large videos from cache, I can download from cache only small videos (less than 5MB).
But While when I was using firefox 3.6 and IDM 5.19 I used to download any video from YouTube from cache?

By: Christer

Christer — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:03:03 +0000

I'd just like to download this flash video for personal viewing on my computer on demand. Would anyone be kind enough to help me? I'd be ever so grateful for some help. Thanks in advance. :)

By: desdecode

desdecode — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:22:23 +0000

For linux users, here's a little bash script I wrote that reads your firefox cache, finds flash files over a certain size, saves them in directory and opens the directory with nautilus to browse the extracted videos/flash files. I hope somebody finds it useful.

By: arjun

arjun — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:40:35 +0000

hi…
actually the video is stored in the temp folder in windows

enter the keyword %temp% in run and get to the location and copy the video… it ‘ll have an extension like fla20.tmp(say). or the location of the file is…
C:\DOCUME~1\your windows username\LOCALS~1\Temp

By: dudee

dudee — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:29:04 +0000

its awesome many tanx*

By: Zayyad

Zayyad — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:26:47 +0000

Yep nirsoft is the solution. thank you very much walker.