[ubuntu-za] Copy Flash Video in Firefox 4

[helge.reikeras at gmail.com]

Hi

With Firefox 3 I used to be able to copy flash video that was still
open in tab from cache using

>> cp /tmp/Flash<id> ~/Videos/

To my surprise the same did not work with Firefox 4. It seems the
problem is related to FlashPlayer 10.2. Apparently the file gets
flagged as deleted:

>> lsof | grep deleted
plugin-co 4292      helge   17u      REG        8,6 18987840
3801105 /tmp/FlashXXJ3YUk0 (deleted)

The solution I ended up with is to use /proc, pid and fd like this:

>> cp /proc/4292/fd/17 ~/Videos/

It should work as long as the flashed tab is still open in Firefox.

Regards,
Helge