Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. 'YouTube-Downloader für Firefox gibt Gas'.

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'Video DownloadHelper - Chrome Web Store'. TechRadar rated it 5/5 stars and wrote, 'Anyone who wants to watch videos, not only online, but also on the train, in the car or on the plane, is very well served with Video DownloadHelper.' See also

Erez Zukerman of PC World rated it 4/5 stars and called it 'a valuable tool'. Reception Įric Griffith of PC Magazine named it one of the best Firefox extensions of 2012.

The software is financed through ads on the developer's website, donations, and associated software sales. Since 2019 user reviews complain of slow conversion and unfinished downloads. Where aggregation (ADP) or conversion is required by the end user, or by a site from which download is required: if the companion app is unlicensed, the end result will include a watermark (a QR code). The most recent release (7.3.7, ) addresses problems that were caused by changes to YouTube. Firefox 57.0 and Video DownloadHelper 7.0.0 were released on the same day (14 November 2017). As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion application increased. In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL).įirefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. The extension was developed by Michel Gutierrez.Īs of December 2019, Video DownloadHelper is the third most popular extension for Firefox (after Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin) and the second most popular Mozilla-recommended extension with 2,848,968 users. It allows the user to download videos from sites that stream videos through HTTP. Video DownloadHelper is an extension for the Firefox web browser and Chrome web browser.

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