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How to Download YouTube Movies to Your Computer

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YouTube has quickly become of the most popular outlets for entertainment on the internet. It is a free site that allows contributors to post funny or informative videos for your viewing pleasure. There are actually how to and information sites that use this is their primary source of video feeds. I have even seen sports handicapping sites that link to this for their daily tout of how much money they are going to win you today! While you won’t be looking to download that, you may want to download YouTube movies directly to your machine so you can watch them whenever you want.

If you use FireFox as your browser, doing this is pretty simple. FireFox is already fitted with an extension that can read and download the video directly from a site to your computer. This extension is called UnPlug and is located in under your tools tab.

If you use a different browser and don’t want to download FireFox, you are more than likely going to have to buy a program or download some shareware in order to extract the video. If you go this route, be very careful because a lot of the software that is on the net is bogus and can fill your machine with viruses and spyware.

Each of these programs has their own little twist, but more than likely, the steps are fairly simple and it will only take you a few minutes to get the movies that you want downloaded. As shareware is something that you can not always trust, you are probably better off switching your browser and pulling the files that way. At least you can be assured that you are not risking infecting your computer by doing it that way. You can always uninstall the browser after you are finished and go back to using Explorer when you are finished.

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