Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:

> Bad news
> ========
>   It's more painfull building up a collection of flv videos.  The old
> version used to copy Youtube videos/songs/whatever into /tmp with a
> filename beginning with "Flash".  

Which tends to fill up disk space, if not wiped regularily ;-o

> The new version dumps it in the "Cache" directory of whatever Firefox
> profile I'm using.  You have to cd to the "Cache" subdirectory, and
> execute...

Which is more correct, as it belongs into the browser's cache.
Of course, Mozilla's way of placing it's cache directly into
user profiles (instead of separate dirs under $TEMP) is the wrong
approach, but that's another story.


BTW: if you wanna catch videos and other media you came along
while surfing, just use a proper proxy (eg. wwwoffle) for that.


cu
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