No "activity" in Safari windows

Hi,
I've been reading on how to download video's form youtube with my macbook using safari like I did with realplayer in Windows. All over the web, I'm reading about using the activity function in window when playing a video. I don't seem to have it.
Does anyone have any suggestions. I've pasted the options open to me here;

I have not tested these myself, but give them a try:
There is the Free iTube Grabber which can capture almost any audio and/or video stream (it says here) but only works with Intel Macs.
http://itube-grabber.en.softonic.com/mac
Firefox Download Helper is also supposed to work, you have to be logged into YouTube first.
There is also iTubeX which allows you to download videos (Flash, HTML5 and others), .mp3 and .swf files from almost every website as easily as possible:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27604/itubex

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