'This One Man Startup's App Has 85 Million Downloads And Is Wildly Profitable'. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. 'YouTube-Downloader für Firefox gibt Gas'. ^ 'Upcoming Changes in Compatibility Features'.^ 'Recommended extensions – Add-ons for Firefox'.^ 'Popular extensions – Add-ons for Firefox'.'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. Read this answer in context 👍 48 All Replies (1)As 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. From there, you can copy/cut the file and paste it anywhere you want. Simply go into Tools > Downloads, and, as before, ask for the containing folder. Files are are opened and not stored, are temporarily placed in a cache folder so you can use it while your Firefox session lasts. If you simply opened the download without asking Firefox to save it, it's possible that you can still access your file (if you did not close Firefox in the meantime).

As before, you can go into Tools > Downloads and ask for the containing folder.

Here, you can also configure it to ask you every time you choose to save a download. If Firefox did not ask you where to save the file, you go into Tools > Options > General and select the location where Firefox will store your downloads. If you forgot where it was, you can go into Tools > Downloads, rightclick the file you want, and select 'Open Containing Folder'. If you selected, as you downloaded the file, a custom place to place the download, Firefox will have stored the file there (if the download was successfully completed).

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