Shockwave Games, Website elements, Screencasts (software demos) created in Macromedia Flash (swf) always fascinate us. We would  generally like to save these flash files embedded in webpages to my hard-drive for offline viewing.

But saving flash animations from websites is not that easy. You will not get any simple option to simply save these flash files. Also the right-click context menu of most browsers won’t work on Flash objects. So I will share some techniques (work-arounds) to save flash files from Mozilla Firefox web browser.

Firefox for Newbies (The easiest method !!)
a. Click Tools – Page Info
b. Click the Media Tab on the Page Info Windows
c. The media tab has a complete list (with preview) of Images, CSS Files and Shockwave Flash files that were downloaded by the Firefox browser while rendering (loading) the page.
d. Scroll down the list and locate the swf file.

e. Click the “Save As” button. Select some directory on your hard drive and save the file (No need for a third-party plug-in)

Keep watching this space for more of these techniques.

Peace.

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