How to save Adobe Flash files in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer
Save Shockwave Flash swf files off the web to your hard disk from Firefox or Internet Explorer. There’s a good chance that the animation or cartoon game you want to download was created using Flash. Use these tips for downloading Flash files from the Internet to your hard drive. You save all Flash animations from web pages, including Flash websites, Flash game, Flash Animations, Flash Tutorials, Flash Movie Trailers, Flash Advertisements, or what ever Flash files you find in the web.
But saving flash animations from websites is not so easy. Macromedia Flash player context menu has no option to download or save the Flash movie from the web browser. The right-click context menu of most browsers won’t work on Flash objects. So I will share some techniques (work-arounds) to save flash files from Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE), Opera or MyIE2 web browsers.
1. Saving Flash files from Firefox
Method # 1
a. Click Tools – Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.
e. Click the “Save As” button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)
Method # 2
a. Type about:blank in the Firefox address bar
b. Now click List cache entries or directly type about:cache?device=disk (Disk cache device)
c. Press Ctrl+F and try to location the flash file by typing some part of website URL or the flash file name or just .swf. After some hit and trial, you should be able to locate the swf file URL
d. Click the SWF URL to open the Cache Entry Information page. Right click on the link and choose “Save link as”
2. How to save flash in IE browser
Method # 1
a. Click Tools – Internet Options
b. In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
c. Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files.
d. Click View – Details. Now click View – Arrange Icons By – Internet Address. Depending upon the webpage, there could one or more Flash files (Shockwave Flash Object) under the Inernet Address.
e. Once you find the right flash file, right-click and choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory. Be sure to
keep the page and IE open to avoid purging of the cache file.
Method # 2
1. Get a download accelerator like Flashget and tell it to automatically download the shockwave extention (*.swf)
2. Or download a free IE plug-in for saving flash files.
3. How to save Flash files from Opera browser
Just like IE, Opera stores the flash files in the browser cache.
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Really great. Thanks.
Excellent post. Thanks.
Thanks. Firefox V2. Page info wasn’t offering anything up apart from pointing to a nothingless embedded swf and empty mp3 file. Couldn’t see any way to put (the right files) files together directly from cache. Found this page. Ah, swf were nothing much after all, sound file was finally located in cache, where upon it downloaded it from the net instead of the hard drive. Didn’t mind either way.
Great Tip.
Tried this using firefox. Gets to lin via net, but still don’t know how to save to hard drive
previous post I meant gets to “link” via net but does not get to hard drive. The flash file I want is on a tv news website and will eventually be taken down. I would like to save to hard drive before it is gone from net
Thanks
How could no one notice in almost an entire year that it’s about:cache and not about:blank in method 2 for firefox?
Excellent post Thanks..jim
Good Morning,,
This article really help me,,
keep your great job sire…
thanx
it’s help me so much
thx much:) now i can save all the swf videos i’d like:)
Wouldn’t work for me!!
thanks ,but it doenst work for this page :’
http://star.zing.vn/star/phong-thu/Pha-Le-Tim.9965.html
plz help me…
the about:cache also works in google chrome
Thank you very much- worked a treat!
i got to the copy file bit on the internet explorer one… working fine until you say paste it into any other directory….
hate to sound stupid but what do you mean by directory… where do i paste it to?
Thanks
actually… can I amend what I said above..
I’ve managed to paste it somewhere but it wont display the image.. it comes up with a message saying that it cant open it, how do I get it to display?
I am a bit rubbish with computers, apologies
L