Two YouTube downloaders crash 3rd worked [Solved]

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Two YouTube downloaders crash 3rd worked [Solved]

#1 Post by nooby »

Started today worked yesterday so is this something YT has changed
or what is going on? the third one did survive though

Hope YouTube not read here and make that one crash too?
this one have worked for several days now.


write this in the FF tools addons search
Download YouTube Videos as MP4

which one do you use and can recommend?
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#2 Post by Semme »

Paste: https://aus3.mozilla.org/ into Firefox, hit enter.

Then..

Help >> about >> check for updates. Whadda we get?

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#3 Post by Makoto »

What does that have to do with nooby's problem with the YouTube downloaders acting off, though? I don't think I've seen any specific notes in the FF updates since v16 that would indicate there were any issues that would stop YouTube or the downloaders from working, unless you updated.

(And, for the record, I tried that with my Puppy Firefox setup - it still thinks v16.0.2 is the latest version. I'm not overly worried about it, though.)

nooby - which downloaders are you having a problem with? You might try others, or even sites like www.keepvid.com.
I use the UnPlug extension with FF and Seamonkey, but for FF, you'll probably have to visit the UnPlug extension page at addons.mozilla.org, or the developer's homepage, and manually select the newest beta version.
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#4 Post by Semme »

Then maybe "127.0.0.1 aus3.mozilla.org" should be in your /etc/hosts file. Nooby :) I go slow with..

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#5 Post by nooby »

Semme I get same result as Makoto told you about.
It says that my FF17 is up to date so that is kind of cool :)

Edit. Is there some log that can show which addons one had
a day ago? or does all such get flushed out?

Makoto I should have written down their names they came up
first thing on the addons so either them change that all the time
or they have same now.

the one I use now I gave link to in my first post.
Download YouTube Videos as MP4
I've used it now for hours today and not a single crash
while the two first crashed every time.
the others have similar names to this one.

could maybe have been this one
http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/

But it depends on if they always give same recommendations
but it looks a bit like one of those I tested earlier today and yesterday.
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#6 Post by 8-bit »

Have you tried the GTK-Youtube viewer?
It has options to view or download youtube videos and has worked for me.
There are versions for Puppy Lucid and Slacko.

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8-bit wrote:Have you tried the GTK-Youtube viewer?
It has options to view or download youtube videos and has worked for me.
There are versions for Puppy Lucid and Slacko.
I did not know about it so thanks for sharing I usually use Firefox
so how does this GTK-Youtube viewer work? Maybe there is an example
on youtube even? :) I drown in all the suggestion
but here is screenshots
linux.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Youtube-Viewer-Screenshot-60648.html
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#8 Post by Semme »

You don't think I posted what I did for my health now, do ya? You guys have something block'n that url..
Semme I get same result as Makoto told you about (not detecting the update).
As far as a viewer/dwnldr.. this is it >> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76835

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#9 Post by Makoto »

No, I have nothing blocking it. I can access it just fine.

My 'issue' with Firefox is actually something more weird than that, and I'll carry it over to the 'original' topic.
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#10 Post by 8-bit »

The GTK-Youtube downloader was linked by Semme.
Thank you!

It can be used as a stand alone viewer downloader that does not require a browser such as Firefox or Seamonkey.
Just remember that if you are using a frugal install with a pupsave file to save your downloads outside of the pupsave as some of the files can be quite large.
Also, further information on it is available in the link Semme gave.

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#11 Post by kickstart »

nooby wrote:Semme I get same result as Makoto told you about.
It says that my FF17 is up to date so that is kind of cool :)
A few days ago I downloaded firefox-19.0.tar.bz2 from Mozilla, unpacked it into a folder in /mnt/home and run the firefox executable from there. It has since updated itself twice and as of today the latest version is 19.0.2

So it seems that the report that your FF17 is up to date is not accurate.

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kickstart wrote:
nooby wrote:Semme I get same result as Makoto told you about.
It says that my FF17 is up to date so that is kind of cool :)
A few days ago I downloaded firefox-19.0.tar.bz2 from Mozilla, unpacked it into a folder in /mnt/home and run the firefox executable from there. It has since updated itself twice and as of today the latest version is 19.0.2

So it seems that the report that your FF17 is up to date is not accurate.


I apologize for my sloppy writing. I actually agree with you.
And I trust Makoto would agree too. The problem is
that his FF16 see itself as latest and my FF17 does also
see itself as latest.

I trust it has to do with some built in logic of how them
check for things and that that could be what you and Semme
try to tell us.

What I would have to do is either start a new instance of
Slacko and there do as you do the problem for me is
that I don't know how to recognize which is the executeable
wow do you know that? And can one place some link to it
on the pinboard/desktop or link to it from the Browse icon.

I don't mind to test FF19 but did not some had problem with
compatibility with addons? Them need to be updated too.

And I already have .mozilla on the HD in same place so
I would need to have two such then for to keep bookmarks
and passwords and settings of UTF8 ?

I easily break things due to my computer clumsiness
so ???
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nooby wrote:

What I would have to do is either start a new instance of
Slacko and there do as you do the problem for me is
that I don't know how to recognize which is the executeable
wow do you know that? And can one place some link to it
on the pinboard/desktop or link to it from the Browse icon.
When you unpack the FF19 tar.bz2 in your desired location it creates a folder called firefox. In the top level of this folder are files called firefox and firefox-bin. Either file will execute the program. However in Thunderbird you need to use the thunderbird file as the thunderbird-bin doesn't start the program. In Filezilla the filezilla executable is found in FileZilla3/bin when you unpack it. I'm far from an expert in these matters, I just find out by trial and error what works, it's usually an executable text file. If you create a desktop file as in my previous post FF gets added to the internet category in the Puppy menu.

nooby wrote:
I don't mind to test FF19 but did not some had problem with
compatibility with addons? Them need to be updated too.
I can't really comment on that as I only have Ghostery tracking blocker addon installed and that was fine with FF19.

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#14 Post by nooby »

Ah now I get it. When I want to start FF19 again
then I have to go into that folder and click on the
firefox-bin file and not on the browser icon cause that one
wake up the FF17 somehow despite me changing name on that Directory.

I test it and report back. I guess it will make me loose all bookmarks
and extensions and passwords and all of it again. Too tedius to
repair it several times a day :)
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#15 Post by kickstart »

nooby wrote:

I test it and report back. I guess it will make me loose all bookmarks
and extensions and passwords and all of it again. Too tedius to
repair it several times a day :)
I always backup a copy of my bookmarks to a file in my documents or somewhere safe (removable media) so I can reinstate them easily if I have a disaster with Firefox. In Firefox go to History/Show All History/Import and Backup. Here you can backup and restore your bookmarks or export and re-import them to and from HTML.

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#16 Post by nooby »

Thanks I did that.

But it did not help to click on the Firefox 19 that I downloaded
despite being a fully FF19 it went back to be FF17 so that is odd.
I renamed each back up and even placed them in two or three layers down.

So one would need different partition for to hide it effectively.

So not sure what to do. There must be some way to do it.

Maybe one need to delete all such back ups then and start all over?

What is your take on it. Are the FF19 so much more secure that it
is important that I go for it? I could maybe save my back up on USB
and that way FF would not know anything about my old FF17 and
if FF19 fails then I could install FF17 again really fast. Seems to be
the easiest work around? I try that now and report within two hours
or so :)
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#17 Post by nooby »

it failed it refuses to use FF 19
So can it be the pup savefile?

the bad thing is that I want to have that pupsave file.
I spend many days and many hours these days on
to set it up as I want things to work.
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#18 Post by kickstart »

nooby wrote: What is your take on it. Are the FF19 so much more secure that it
is important that I go for it?
Well being a bit of a noob myself I may be talking rubbish but I would have thought the difference in security between FF17 & 19 isn't worth worrying about so I would keep your FF17 setup. Addons like Ghostery and Noscript can enhance your privacy and they work in 17 & 19. I'm using 19 only because I was starting from scratch using a Puppy with no browser and this was the tar.bz2 download on offer from Mozilla. Hey! until recently I was using Firefox 3 and I had no issues with that.
nooby wrote: it failed it refuses to use FF 19
So can it be the pup savefile?

the bad thing is that I want to have that pupsave file.
I spend many days and many hours these days on
to set it up as I want things to work.
The way I am working, FF doesn't touch the savefile. I always keep a savefile backup on a USB stick as I have had them corrupt more than once.

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#19 Post by nooby »

The way I am working, FF doesn't touch the savefile. I
How do you accomplish such a clever thing?

Maybe you don't use Slacko 5.4 or 5.5?

Firefox is already included in the menu so one would
need to have done like you go into the files and take out mozilla?

As I have it as soon as you start up Firefox even as you do
from /mnt/home/Firefox/ click on the file

then it automatically create a hidden ,mozilla in root and
that one goes to the save file for sure.

11PM here so no hurry to answer :) I go to bed now
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#20 Post by kickstart »

The way I am working, FF doesn't touch the savefile. I
nooby wrote: How do you accomplish such a clever thing?
It's not so clever. I just use Google to search for Puppy threads concerning savefile usage. The forum search never works too well for me.

nooby wrote: Maybe you don't use Slacko 5.4 or 5.5?
I mentioned previously that I was experimenting with Racy. I have only tried Slacko 5.3 and it didn't work so well for my laptop. I need the Linux 3 kernel and multi processor PAE version.

nooby wrote: Firefox is already included in the menu so one would
need to have done like you go into the files and take out mozilla?
I think it's a good idea to take mozilla out of the Slacko.sfs if you want to run from /mnt/home.

nooby wrote: As I have it as soon as you start up Firefox even as you do
from /mnt/home/Firefox/ click on the file
then it automatically create a hidden ,mozilla in root and
that one goes to the save file for sure.
Yes it does. I forgot to mention that I moved the hidden .mozilla to the firefox folder in /mnt/home. You then need to drag it back to /root and create a relative symlink from the pop up menu. The symlink is tiny and has no significant effect on save file usage. If you don't make the symlink another hidden .mozilla folder will be created in /root next time you start Firefox. In my case this increases save file usage by 16M. Also you can do the following which I cribbed from alienjeff in this thread.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30761

Except I sent the cache to /tmp instead of /mnt/ram1 as I didn't create a ramdrive. Files in /tmp are in RAM and don't get included in the save file at shutdown.


Type "about:config" in the URL address bar of Firefox.

1) Right click anywhere in the about:config listing. You will receive a dire warning which you can ignore

2) select New

3) select String

4) for preference name enter browser.cache.disk.parent_directory

5) for value enter /tmp

You could always just leave the cache alone as it's now in /mnt/home, not the save file and just clear it manually every so often. There is a cache size limit option in preferences but I have seen somewhere in a thread that Firefox has a tendency to ignore this setting and the cache keeps growing.


Most of my other ideas came from this thread started by shinobar which also advises on ways to keep downloads out of the save file;

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62110

I have been browsing in Firefox for most of the evening now and the save file usage hasn't increased at all so all these strategies I have used seem to be working fine.

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