For what it's worth, I have used ZamZar's URL option (http://www.zamzar.com) to download a few YouTube videos in MPEG format. Again, this would be browser (and OS) independent.
>> Try http://keepvid.com/ >> with the URL http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 >> >> It's downloading for me 90 megs so it'll be a while before I can check >> the quality. > > ah - I tried keepvid (yesterday) but it would not work, maybe it was > busy or something. It is actually connecting now. > This would be independent of any browser (Firefox) cache parameters > presumably. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/