One can download Flash or for that matter any media element in a webpage when viewed in Firefox, without any additional tool, or software or add-on to Firefox. How?
Well, say there is a flash file (Shockwave File with extension .swf) on a webpage and you want to download it. Then,
- Open that particular webpage
- Click on Tools in the top Menu bar
- Then, from the list of options, click on Page Info. This option is one of the least explored option in Firefox. It gives all the information about the current web page that is open in Firefox.
- Go to the second tab - Media
- Under Address heading, it will show the location of the flash media object
- Below, on the same screen, there would be an option as Save As..., using which one can save the flash as it is from the webpage!
Ofcourse, this is useful when one wants to download only one Flash file from a webpage. Plus, one has to open the webpage where this Flash would be 'active'. If there are only links to Flash objects on a webpage, one cannot download them. Media info does not show them as part of flash objects, but as image objects.
If one needs to download multiple flash objects from a webpage, then one can download softwares which do this work for us.
P.S: Interestingly, found a site which details multiple ways of tweaking FF and IE to download flash objects.
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