Downloads: Like jpegs, could we drag&drop flash to the rox-filer ?

frenchn00b · 04-10-2008, 11:59 AM

Hello, Like jpegs, could we drag&drop flash to the rox-filer ? thanks

David the H. · 04-10-2008, 05:44 PM

I don't know rox, but I'm going to guess no, because flash is usually handled by a plugin. Also, some of the more complicated flash applications have multiple files, or even need net access to a server to load some data. But you can save most simple flash apps by finding the .swf file you want in the page source or your browser cache.

frenchn00b · 04-11-2008, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by David the H.

I don't know rox, but I'm going to guess no, because flash is usually handled by a plugin. Also, some of the more complicated flash applications have multiple files, or even need net access to a server to load some data. But you can save most simple flash apps by finding the .swf file you want in the page source or your browser cache.

I am surprised that iceape/firefox does not do the job for us, since Linux is sooo powerful!

David the H. · 04-11-2008, 09:10 PM

There's an extension or two that can help you download .swf and other embedded content such as Download Embedded and Embedded Objects, but I've never used any of them myself so I don't know if or how well they work on the multi-file type of flash applet.

There are certainly a lot of flash video downloaders available in any case.