Turn Off RealPlayer “Download” Button

Date: June 5, 2011
Author: ElGuru
Comments: 0 Comments
Categories: Browsers, Legacy

The newer versions of Real Player have added an annoying feature which will allow you to download a video playing in the browser. At first I thought disabling all the RealPlayer plugins within Firefox would take care of this. It did not and then I noticed the same thing happening in Chrome. After some poking around in RealPlayer (which I rarely use) I found out how to turn off this feature.

  1. Launch RealPlayer*
  2. From the RealPlayer drop-down menu at the upper left select Preferences..
  3. Click the Download & Recording category (2nd from the bottom)
  4. You can either un-check the enable box (will turn off for all installed browsers) or in the section below select on of the other options.
  5. Click OK
  6. Close and restart Firefox

* You can also click the drop-down button on the right-side of the button and this will open RealPlayer preferences to the Download & Recording category. However, accessing this method may cause your system to become unresponsive for a few seconds.

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10 Comments on Turn Off RealPlayer “Download” Button

  1. Jeff | October 1, 2012 at 6:56 PM |

    Thank you! That was driving me crazy. I disabled it before but somehow downloaded the latest version and it came back. Jeez, you’d think preferences would transfer between versions.

  2. pietro | October 11, 2012 at 2:26 AM |

    Thank you. I fully agree on what Jeff said and I have to be grateful for your post..

  3. skygem | December 22, 2012 at 1:05 PM |

    This does not work for me because there is download and recording button in preferences on my version of real player, please help

    • anonymousthoughts1 | January 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM |

      Same here no “download and recording button”

    • anonymousthoughts1 | January 13, 2013 at 11:53 AM |

      When I thought about it, here is how I disabled it having no “download and recording button”. I have firefox so I went to tools > add ons > and clicked “disable” next to the real player add on, restarted fire fox. I hope it works for you.

    • Dee | September 20, 2013 at 8:22 AM |

      I found my problem for not seeing the “download and recording” option was I was looking in Real Player. I found it instead by typing in “RealDownloader” in my start menu, and thence clicking left drop down menu. Thanx so much for the help!

  4. Yo Buddy | January 17, 2013 at 6:22 PM |

    For Firefox

    Just go to :
    Tools add-on (ctrl+Shift+A)
    Extension -> disable RealDownloader

  5. Jannet | April 11, 2013 at 9:14 AM |

    Thank you! I thought I was rid of this thing but IT CAME BACK!!!!

  6. Tammy | July 11, 2013 at 4:08 PM |

    My problem is the exact opposite. I can’t get the downloader button to appear even though the enable button is clicked. I have windows 7 and am wondering what the heck is going on. Thanks.

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