Flash – How to Access Flash Files from Streaming Websites

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In Maverick, there was an option to download Flash videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. by copying the flashxx** file in /tmp directory to another location before closing the window. But in Firefox 4 in Natty, this doesn't work anymore. Why?

Best Answer

An update to the flash plugin changed the location from /tmp to the Firefox cache directory (e.g. ~/.mozilla/firefox/bq95m4w1.default/Cache). Unfortunately the cached flash file is not as easy to find as before, but it is possible.

The following command lists all the flash files in your Firefox cache.

find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache -type f -exec file {} \;  | grep Flash

On Newer versions of ubuntu try

find ~/.cache/mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache -type f -exec file {} \;  | grep Flash
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