Imagine that you have opened a web page and it contains videos, music and images that interest you and that you don't just want to play through your browser, but you also want to save on your computer to use it later offline. The FlashGot plugin for Mozilla Firefox will allow you to do this.
FlashGot is an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser, which is a download manager that intercepts links to files and downloads them to your computer.
How to install FlashGot for Mozilla Firefox?
1. Follow the link at the end of the post to the developer's official web portal and click on “Install on pc” to start the installation.
2. You must allow the download and installation of Flashgoth for Mazila.
3. You will need to restart your browser to complete the installation.
How to use FlashGot?
The essence of FlashGot is that this tool enables you to download multimedia files from almost any site on the Internet. When no downloads are available for FlashGot, by default, the plugin icon will not be displayed, but once they are detected, the plugin icon will be displayed in the upper right corner.
As an example, we want to download an episode of our favorite TV series. For this, we open the page with the video that we want to download in the browser, we put it in playback and then we click on the plugin icon in the upper right corner.
For the first time, a window will appear asking you to specify the folder where the uploads will be saved. Thereafter, This window will not be shown and FlashGot will go directly to download the file.
The browser will start downloading the file (or files), which you can follow in the Firefox download menu. Once the download is complete, the file will be available for playback.
Now we are going to focus on the FlashGot configuration. To enter the plugin settings, click on the menu button in the upper right corner of the browser and from the list that appears, select “Accessories”..
In the left area of the window, click on the tab “Extensions”.. On the right side of the FlashGot plugin, Click the button “Settings”..
The FlashGot setup screen appears. In the tab Tab “Basic”. The basic configuration of FlashGot can be found here. Here you can change the download manager (by default it is built into the browser), as well as configure the hotkeys for the plugin to work.
In the tab. “Menu”. configure the download via FlashGot. As an example, if required, the plugin can be loaded from all open tabs in the browser.
In the tab. “downloads”. You can disable the automatic start of downloads and configure the file extensions that FlashGot will support.
It is recommended to leave the settings of the other tabs as default.
FlashGot is a powerful and stable plugin to download files through the Mozilla Firefox browser. And even when you can play a file online in the open tab, FlashGot will be able to save it on your computer. For the moment, the plugin is distributed completely free of charge, but the opportunity to make donations is open on the developers' website, who accept voluntary donations from users to further develop it.
Download FlashGot for free
Download the latest version of the program from the official web portal
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