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Is there a decent youtube downloader?

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Shades:
A downloadable archived copy of Firefox (from the www.portableapps.com website) is normally below 20MByte. This is the plain version, without any plugin/add-on.

I have been using this for almost 2 years now, and only because of the zotero plug-in (and actively using that for doing web-research) my Firefox setup claims 900MByte of room on my hard disk. Around 800MByte is zotero, the rest is Firefox and some other plugins/add-ons. Nowhere near as extreme as in your case.

If storage space is a concern to your setup , you might want to use cleanup tools. Assuming you don´t already do this, I´ll mention that on the same portableapps website there is also a recent version of crapcleaner, which could help a lot in cleaning out the folders mentioned by 4wd.

This system works well in my Windows setup, where I replaced installed software for their portable version as much as possible.

helmut85:
Remember Laura Nyro.

TaoPhoenix:
My afterthought becoming: ... hence the incredible non-professionalism and the sharp colors of the relevant sw here. Otherwise, I'm accustomed to business sw, so the shock seeing vid download / converting sw in action was a heavy one.
-helmut85 (January 05, 2013, 05:23 PM)
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Hi Helmut,

I'll say that for what is ultimately a "small amount of dev dollars" there really are gaps in the Utility category of software. I bet it's not the answer you need but it's sounding like you're close to needing to commission something to put in the special features you want.

Shades:
There are quite a lot of ools that help analyze where the space on your storage device goes. However, the one I like best is called Spacesniffer, which is both free and portable.

The reason why is simle, it is mainly because of the concept behind its interface (blocks associated with files and folders that are sized differently to represent the size of storage space they consume).

4wd:
As for FF portable, you, 4wd, spoke about that version from the beginning; I have to admit I didn't "get" this in time and installed the normal version, but of course, a cache of 50 MB or suche doesn't explain my loss of space.-helmut85 (January 08, 2013, 07:05 AM)
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A default full installation of Firefox sets the disc based cache at 1024MB, (the same as IE seems to be whenever I've done a new install), this is about 950MB too much AFAIAC.

FirefoxPortable has the disc cache set at 0MB, (but not fully disabled), by default.

What I believe Shades is talking about is the Profile folder which contains more permanent data, eg. bookmarks, passwords, addon data, etc.

The FirefoxPortable link I put in above. (on my server), differs from the official one in the points I mention previously - the folder shouldn't get any larger unless you install more addons.

BTW, the homepage I added when it's run is instructions on using BYTubeD with DTA!, (with pictures).

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