Activity window

Which I did, all 9 pages. fwmaietta's post is the first to explain the experience that I wrote about, the last post on the page immediately preceeding this page.

Ok great... then you know all about that "click a button" YouTube extension as mentioned before.

I spammed that "feedback" link.

How the heck does someone go into work and sit down and then think "I'm going to get rid of something for no good reason that's going to PO an entire user community"

Why not have a forum based development method.

Throw your ideas in here apple.. then get our answers BEFORE you do a thing...

bet dollars to doughnuts had you started a thread "Removing Activity window in Safari 6.. what do you guys think"

before you released it, that it'd still have the feature...

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Joël Huxtable wrote:

Yep! That works pretty good. The only thing I do different is copy the address and then open quicktime — open URL (command L) and then paste the address into that. Then I can save the movie as I wish.

You're great man ! I can even download Apple ad video from Apple website, thanks ! 🙂

I will try to help you, hope this easier and yes you can download from other sites with this :

1.) Go to Safari Preferences -> Advanced tab -> check the box saying "Show Develop Menu"

2.) Go to the tool bar -> Develop menu (between Bookmarks and Window), select "Show Page Resources" or press Command + Option + A

3.) Watch the LEFT-HAND panel as you press play the video or refresh the page.

4.) A dropdown file should appear as soon as you press play or after you refresh. Its called "Other". OPEN IT.

5.) Somewhere in the "Other" folder will be your video file. It's the one with the loading sign next to it. Select it.

6.) Then go to the RIGHT-HAND side panel. There will be a section titled "Location" and under that the "FULL URL" of your video file. Copy it.

7.) Open quicktime, choose "Open Location"

8.) Paste address...

9.) Video will start

10.) File>Export

@fwmaietta -that is brilliant, thank you!!

This is an epic fail on Apple's part. This is a ridiculous pain in the a. I've read the 9 pages of work arounds and they are incredibly extensive and troublesome. I'm seeing 10 step "solutions" to accomplish something which was previously simply "option+click."

Apple needs to bring back the dang Activity Window and be done with it.

While I too, agree the Activity Window needs to come back, I've found an alternative version to accomplish the goal.

After enabling the 'Develop' menu item under >preferences>advanced, when on on a page with the source media, select, Develop>Show Page Resources> but rather than try to find the link in the sidebar, select the 'small hand' from the sub menu bar that pops up. It should provide the meta data pop up "select an element in the page to inspect it'. Then just click on the youtube video or whatever else and it will highlight the source code in the main window. Double Click then right click and select 'download sorce file'.

In a way, it is easier then trying to find the active media than from the old activity window because you can be taken right to the active source you chose.

that option didn't appear for me.

I read through the thread and got frustrated trying to get to the "other" folder before it disappeared and found the same solution you came across. I would add to your advice that people should make sure they right click the youtube video and select the POP OUT option from the menu. Inspecting the page elements of a standard youtube page will only show you the EMBED MOVIE PLAYER info not the video source.

If people follow your advice then they shouldn't have any problems

I'm trying to follow this thread. I've been trying some of these methods, but Quicktime keeps telling me it can't handle the files, or gives the message "the operation could not be completed". Do I need Quicktime Pro? Are there Codecs I need to download?

I also tried this method:

"After enabling the 'Develop' menu item under >preferences>advanced, when on on a page with the source media, select, Develop>Show Page Resources> but rather than try to find the link in the sidebar, select the 'small hand' from the sub menu bar that pops up. It should provide the meta data pop up "select an element in the page to inspect it'. Then just click on the youtube video or whatever else and it will highlight the source code in the main window. Double Click then right click and select 'download sorce file'."

I use the Pop out option and get a window that looks like the screen shot (thank!). However, when I double click on the source (highlighted in blue) this selects the text string. When I right click I do not see "download source file" (I assume you meant to type 'source', but I don't see anything similar so it doesn't really matter).

Any suggestions or idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

If users just want to be able to download videos from YouTube, etc., I just tried a free Wondershare YouTube downloader http://www.wondershare.com/guide/mac-free-youtube-downloader.html. They also have a paid version which they say can download pretty much any embedded online videos.

this works a bit easier, as an extension that creates a download button - kwizzu.com