Downloading YouTube Videos on Firefox

If you use Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, you can add many customized features that are available for free through a Firefax addon called Greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. As Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages. Well-written Greasemonkey scripts can integrate changes so well that their additions appear to be natural parts of the web page.

One of these scripts adds a video download button to any Youtube video page, so you can download the video as an mp4 file.

More info about Greasemonkey here.

Get Greasemonkey here.

Userscript to download videos from YouTube

Another script automatically selects the highest quality video setting.

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