How to download Youtube videos: Chrome and Firefox Plugins

Want to download your favorite Youtube videos ? Don’t know how? Here are few quick and easy ways of downloading Youtube videos.

Chrome Browser:

Step 1:  Download the developer release of Google Chrome browser here. The youtube video download plugin for chrome browser works only with the beta or developer release version.

Step 2: Download the youtube download plugin for chrome here. After you have downloaded the .crx file on to your computer, just drag and drop the .crx file into the chrome browser. A message pops up as shown below.

Click on ‘Continue’.

Click on ‘Install’ and you are done installing the addon.

Step 3: Now on the youtube page a number of download options are available(See picture below). Choose the video format of your choice and start downloading.

Firefox Browser:

There are a bunch of youtube related addons for firefox. Here I will be giving you a tutorial on some of the popular ones.

1.       Video DownloadHelper:

You can get the addon for the Video DownloadHelper here. After installing the addon, you will be prompted to restart the browser.

After restarting firefox Video DownloadHelper will appear in the top left corner of your browser. Whenever you are watching a Youtube video, you can just click on the icon, choose the video format of your choice and start downloading the video.

 2.       Orbit Downloader:

This is another popular tool for downloading youtube videos. You can download the Orbit downloader here.

Once you have downloaded the tool, it has to be installed in your system. Please close all your browsers before installing Orbit downloader.

To download Youtube videos using Orbit downloader, just hover your mouse pointer over the video and you will see a “Get It” button pop up. Just select the video format from the drop down box and start downloading the video.

 

Google Chrome OS ready to be launched!!

Are you a Google fan? Thinking of trying a new operating system? Most of you all might know/heard that Google will be releasing its own operating system and you might be excited about its release. Wondering or waiting impatiently for its release. If so just wait for a week more and you probably  might be using Google Chrome OS.

According the article posted by Michael Arrington in Techcrunch website, Google will be releasing Google Chrome OS next week. Read his article where he mentions what we can expect in Google Chrome OS.

Here is an extract from Google's Blog about Google Chrome OS as posted on 77/09

"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

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