Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Firefox Plugins: Flashblock & Download Helper

This article is for those people who are really annoyed by Flash ads or Flash Videos or anything that involves flash. If you never used Firefox browser before then why not give it a try? I think Firefox is way better than any other web browser on the net. I deal with online videos and online music everyday and every time I see those flash ads popping on my pc screen I just feel like blow up the f**king website. Well, thanks to Firefox, I have finally found a solution for blocking those Flash ads. The plugins is called Flashblock. If you are already using Firefox then download and install the adons on your browser and restart it. Let me give you an example of how it looks like before and after installing flashblock.


I went to this online gaming website name Addictinggames and as you can see on the bottom picture that there is a flash picture on the right hand side. This is before installing Flashblock on Firefox.

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Same website Same Flash after installing Flashblock. You can clearly see that the flash has been blocked.

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Thats not all you can even right click on that flash and you can chose the option "Remove this flash" or even "Allow flash from this website". This is an awesome adon that helps me surf the net faster.

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This next addons will only work if you already installed FLASHBLOCK.

This plugin is for downloading flash videos from any and I really mean any website that has flash videos. If you already got firefox then just install this addons on your firefox browser:
Download Helper
. After Installing restart your browser and then go to youtube or any website that allows flash video.

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That is an example on how you can use Download Helper. All you got to do is Right Click > Download Helper > DOWNLOAD LINK.

Now if you don't see the download link then I suggest you play the video for few seconds then reload your video page and retry the whole process. That way Download Helper will be able to detect the video link.

Its EASY and save you lot of time. You don't have to copy the link and go to another website to find the download link. It can be done all in one page with one cool addons.

I hope this helps.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.