This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Firefox tip for downloading many multiple files increasing limit

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Firefox tip for downloading many multiple files increasing limit

I think you might be thinking of Video DownloadHelper, which is designed to rip videos off YouTube and others. This add-on (DownThemAll) does just what the title says: finds downloadable links on a page and queues them all. Very easy and very powerful if you have a page with many individual download links and you don't want to right-click/Save As every one.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:45 PM, johnrobmoore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

I had that or still have it. For some reason it's functionality wasn't that user friendly to me. I was using it to say download a video on UTube etc... and sometimes it worked but I found the massive list of all the elements on the website page very unintuitive, but perhaps I need to revisit it. I had never thought of it as a download manager but just a way to hack/download videos on web sites. Heck I never even thought of a download manager until I started googling last night.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Mark Spano <cutandcover@...> wrote:
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> There's an easier way to do this which does not involve messing with the
> under-the-hood settings in Firefox. Install the Firefox Add-On called
> DownThemAll. It offers a very easy to use and customizable download helper
> which scans the page you're on for downloadable files, allows you to filter
> on whatever extension you're trying to get, and queues them to download to
> the folder of your choice. In a few clicks, you can pass all the work to
> the add-on and have it maximize your bandwidth to download many files at
> once.
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> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Rich Ford <rrfedit@...> wrote:
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> > Dennis,
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> > All those settings; That's out of my league . . .
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> > Look, I am not one for spending large amounts of time under the hood
> > tweaking settings. But this one setting is ultra easy to switch, and if
> > you want to download batches from a stock footage or music site, it is very
> > helpful. Try it!
> >
> > - Rich
> >
> > Rich Ford
> > Hot Sprocket Films
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:19 PM, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@...> wrote:
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> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 5:38 AM, John Moore wrote:
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> > > If you open a new tab and type "about.config" in the address bar you
> > gain access to a ton of setting most of which I will never touch
> >
> > I said:
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> > > I tried it and it doesn't work for me. I get a verizon search instead.
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 9:25 AM, <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > > You have to type: "about:config" with a colon.
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> > I now say:
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> > Yeah, I figured that out right after I wrote my first message.
> > After I looked at the result, I've decided that I'm not gonna mess with
> > it. All those settings; That's out of my league . . .
> >
> > Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> > NBC Today Show, New York
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