How to Download Youtube Video in Firefox

How to Download Youtube Video in Firefox?

There are lots of people ask me how to download Youtube video in Firefox ( Use Orbit Downloader as Youtube downloader in Firefox). Here is a step by step tutorial below:
1. Check whether your Firefox is monitoring at Preferences-->Monitoring:
( If it is uncheck, please exit Firefox then check the item. )



2. Open a Youtube video. I make ' Create a Lemon Battery' for example. You can see a small-gray Orbit Downloader icon on the top of the video:



3. Click the icon, Orbit Downloader will fetch the video for you:



4. After fetch the video URL - about 2 second or more quickly, the ' Create New Download' dialog will pop up:



5. Click the OK button , you will download the Youtube video :)



Using this way above, you can download flv video from Youtube, Google, Myspace, Metacafe and Dailymotion in Firefox.

Tips:
1. The 'GetIt' button is changed to a small-gray icon in Firefox. Just click it!
2. The YouTube videos are in FLV format. And lots of FLV players are in software download sites. Or you can download one of them at here.
3. Some of the YouTube videos can not be resumed because file-resume is forbidden in some YouTube servers. If the connection is break when downloading, you could redownload it by clicking the download item's context menu 'Restart download'.

Relate Link:
1. How to download Youtube video in IE?
2. How to download Youtube video in Opera?

Orbit Downloader v2.1.5 Come Out!

Orbit Downloader v2.1.5 is released!

1. Improve Firefox addon ( Thanks Nelson)
2. Fix DropZone bug: DropZone may cause the full-screen mode exit
3. Improve Tray Icon feature: Show mail window by one click
4. Add 'Clean list of completed downloads' feature to 'Edit' menu



5. Add TrayIcon for Grab++
In the Grab++->Actions->Preferences dialog, if the 'Close to system tray' is checked, the Grab++ will minimize to system tray when click 'Close' button.



6. Fix some bugs

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Orbit Downloader v2.1.1 is released!

Orbit Downloader v2.1.1 is released!

1、Support Netscape browser
The v2.1.1 apply it's Firefox add-on to Netscape browser. You can use Orbit Downloader in Netscape as same as in FireFox.

2. Support Download Youtube, Google, Dailymotion and Myspace video directly via borwser's context menu item 'Grab video by Orbit'.
Give a right-click on the video link, then select the 'Grab video by Orbit' item on the browser context menu. The video will be downloaded directly. Support Youtube, Google, Dailymotion and Myspace now:



3. Add an option in Grab++'s preferences to delete the grabbed item after download it.
If the option is checked, the Grabbed item will be deleted auto after click download:



4. Add an option in Grab++'s preferences to rename file by page title.
If the option is checked, grabbed item will be rename auto by the page title.



5. Grab++ support multi-language.

6. Add an option to set grid and colorful grid in Orbit Downloader's list view.

7. Remember the Orbit Downloader's list view header when exit.

8. The FireFox add-on support Arabic.

Download Orbit Downloader v2.1.1:

Orbit Downloader v2.0.5 is released

Orbit Downloader v2.0.5 is released just now!

In this version we fixed the bug: Grab++ might cause the browser crash in some occasion.

And this version is more stable for social music and video download.

Orbit Downloader v2.0.1 come out!

Download Social Music and Social Video

Ever tried a freeware can download video or music from all the web2.0 sites? Now here comes Orbit Downloader 2.0!

Orbit Downloader, leader of download manager revolution, is devoted to new generation web application downloading, such as Myspace, YouTube, Pandora, rapidhsare. And to make general download more easier and faster.

New Features

• Support Social Music Download: Pandora, Yahoo, Myspace, IMEEM, Radioblogclub, Lala and more...
• Support Social Video Download: Youtube, Dailymotion, Myspace, Yahoo, Metacafe, Google and more...

More...

Orbit Downloader v1.5.7 is released

Orbit Downloader v1.5.7 is released just now!
There is the changelog below:
* Prompt user exit IE and Firefox when installing Orbit Downloader
* Fix the bug: the username and password is swapped in batch download
* Fix some bugs