Download YouTube videos : the easiest way !

Things become usually easy if you are an open-source user and for Firefox users, this is not an exception. Thousands of extensions and add-ons that can be integrated in the Firefox browser makes it the best browser for quite some years now and others seem no way near.
Now let me focus the light on the main topic, i.e. downloading YouTube videos in a go using Firefox. All you need to do is install an add-on called GreaseMonkey on Firefox, which can be downloaded HERE. After you are done, restart Firefox. A small GreaseMonkey icon appears at the bottom right of your browser which means the add-on has been installed. Now follow THIS link in your browser and click “Install” which appears at the top right corner of the page. In doing so, a userscript called “Downlaod YouTube videos” is installed inside your GreaseMonkey add-on such that whenever you open any video on the YouTube page, a download option (mp4, 3gp or flv) will be integrated in the YouTube page itself. Select the extension of your choice and you are ready to download your favourite video from the site.
This method is one of the most easiest way to download YouTube videos as the download option is integrated in the YouTube page itself, eradicating the need of third-party download managers.

So, enjoy downloading !!

How to remove quiz and games notifications from your Facebook page

I was fed up with all those crappy quizzes and games notification in my facebook page. Whenever i logged in to my facebook page, those annoying quizzes notifications were the first ones to appear, so i decided to get rid of it and started my hunt. This is what i found and let me share it with all you guys.

First of all, you need to be a Firefox user to do this. Under firefox, install an add-on called GreaseMonkey. Once installed a small icon will appear on the status bar of your browser. Next, you need to install the Facebook Purity Script for the GreaseMonkey. Then make sure that both the GreaseMonkey and Facebook Purity Script is enabled by right clicking the icon in the status bar and checking the “manage user scripts” option. Once done, open your Facebook page and see the results. The greasemonkey script “Facebook Purity Script” removes all the third pary application’s notifications  such as quizzes and games created by external developers leaving behind your original notifications about status, messages, comments and so on. Now the facebook becomes pure as it should be.

P.S. Facebook Account Settings always do not have the option to strongly disable these third party notifications, so this script for GreaseMonkey really gets the job done. If you have any better ways to do so, please respond in comments below.