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I have Mac pro and firefox 3.0.19.I am trying to download a video from youtube.? I can see the video. I want to download it and save in my computer to see it again. I have download helper. While the 3 red,blue,and yellow sphere are turning, It gives me t

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I have mac pro and firefox 3.0.19 I am trying to download a video from youtube.? I can see the video. I want to download it and save in my computer to see it again. I have download helper. While the 3 red,blue,and yellow sphere are turning, It gives me the choice of place to save,and when I click and choose desktop , for example, this message comes ."Conversion requires an external application that appears to be missing on your system. Configure conversion ? When I click on okay, another page comes, which says" converter and a box next to it . in the box is written FFMpeg. but I can change it to MEncoder. In another box, says configure conversion rules. When I click on it, nothing happen.Thanks for your help.


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Every time Firefox opened

== I want to download a video from youtube

I have mac pro and firefox 3.0.19 I am trying to download a video from youtube.? I can see the video. I want to download it and save in my computer to see it again. I have download helper. While the 3 red,blue,and yellow sphere are turning, It gives me the choice of place to save,and when I click and choose desktop , for example, this message comes ."Conversion requires an external application that appears to be missing on your system. Configure conversion ? When I click on okay, another page comes, which says" converter and a box next to it . in the box is written FFMpeg. but I can change it to MEncoder. In another box, says configure conversion rules. When I click on it, nothing happen.Thanks for your help. == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == I want to download a video from youtube

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Problem solved, when the conversion window opens up, just disable "Conversion enable" then everything is back to normal.

Good thing I still have my old Emac, went on it to see how the Conversion was set up.

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No, this reply is not helpful. It simply generates this little gem:

"This service requires the conversion feature to be enabled. Configure conversion ?"

And the same clicking on buttons that makes nothing happen and going around in circles with the escape key.