Saving online streaming media on to hard disk can be a problem. Whilst hackers around the globe have devised many tricks to do it and many commercial softwares have been released to do so, here we present a very simple way to achieve this task.

Step 1:

First of all, my advice will be to clear your cache. Cache is the place in your hard drive where a Browser stores all temporary files of a page when it has been fully loaded. Now to clear your cache in Mozilla, click “Tools” -> “Clear Private Data” and the following window will open up. Check in “Cache” and press “Clear Private Data Now”.

Step 2:

Now open the streaming media you want to save. Let it stream fully. Once it completes open another tab and type “about:cache” on the Location Bar. Following window will show up. You can see a Hyper Link named “List Cache Entries” under the section named “Disk cache Device”, click on it and you will be taken to another page.

Step 3:

There you will see a long list of entries with hyper links with an identifier “Key”. This “Key” is what Mozilla assigned to every cache entry it has downloaded from the website. Now from that you have to find out your desired media content. Be it an image or embedded media. Sometimes depending on the number of entries, it can be really hard to find it. But just search there with the website name, the type of the content and especially the size. You will eventually get it. To confirm click on it and Mozilla will show you the content. Once you have found it, right click on it and go for “Save Link as” and give the location where you want to save it. And you are done.