Get Youtube Video in FLV format at Firefox cache folder without download

December 11, 2007

Just watch youtube video in firefox and get FLV file of that video in cache folder of firefox in easy way. No need to download youtube video from other websites. Here is the step by step process.

1. Watch full Youtube video in Firefox bowser.

2. When you see reply button on youtube video, don’t close the Firefox browser.

3. Go at following folder D:(or C:)\Documents and Settings\ADMIN (your Admin login)\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles (one by one),

Update: For new Firefox version, if you are not able to find “Application Data” after  Local Settings, just  add  “\Application Data” on the address bar at  Local setting folder. Here is the example – check

C:\Documents and Settings\HTC\Local Settings\Application Data

(edit C: and HTC with your harddrive and  admin login name respectively. )

4. Click single folder there you will get folder “Cache”. click on it. You will find a lots of unknown type files in this folder.

5. Most probably the last file will be youtube video.

6. Remember, youtube video in FLV format in this folder is there with unknown name ant type.

7. You can arrange all files in this folder by size. largest file should be youtube video

8. Copy that file, paste it on desktop

9. Rename it with FLV extension, something like video1.flv.

10. Play the video with FLV player. If you dont have FLV player, download it from here

For more infomation visit download Megavideo.

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  1. leakeg says:
    February 17, 2008 at 2:14 am

    yep brilliant it works – no double downloading anymore!

  2. noob says:
    April 7, 2008 at 9:48 am

    folder location in vista?

    ( i hate vista too )

  3. noob says:
    April 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Vista

    control panel
    appearance and personalization
    folder options
    view hidden folders

    C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

  4. ABHISHEK says:
    July 1, 2008 at 11:26 am

    yoo,it’s working yar,thank u for providing me such an oppurtinity.

  5. zulk says:
    October 24, 2008 at 7:06 am

    excellent tips

  6. DYOS says:
    November 26, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    yup that actually works BUT i noticed that when the file is actually larger than 60MB it vanishes right after streaming is done! where does it go?

  7. shuhrat says:
    February 12, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    thanks. works great! especially cuz i have an unstable wifi connection and downloading something is always a problem.

  8. shairyar says:
    August 4, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Thanks bro… its an easy method… works greatly…

  9. Cbass says:
    August 7, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    Dude YOU ARE GOD!!

  10. heru says:
    October 22, 2009 at 8:12 am

    wooowww…..

    thats an excellent tips.

    thanks a lot

  11. victor says:
    October 31, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Thanks buddy,it works!!!I use windows Vista .I could locate the flv files with the following path,of course by trial and error.
    C:\Users\victor\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\
    Profiles\ds88ejil.default\Cache

  12. haiqal says:
    November 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    what if i’m using a mac?

  13. jamshid says:
    March 16, 2010 at 5:55 pm

    good article . Thanks

  14. Hossein S. Rahmati says:
    May 23, 2010 at 7:43 am

    On every OS you can try typing in the address bar of Firefox:

    about:cache

    Bingo! You’ve got the path to the temp directory regardless of your operating system. Whether it’s UNIX or Windows, you’ve got what you need.

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