Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
4,036 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15580383, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by snowhitemint, 5 years agoFirefox recommends the addon. I add it to my browser. I want to download a song ... I am automatically linked to a page and have to download another program to my PC. I think it's a virus, I'm deleting the addon.
But hey, this is Firefox and Firefox recommended the addon - it cannot be a virus. I read the FAQ on the developer side, they look honest. I download the addon again, I download the "program". I want to download a song and convert it to MP3. I am redirected to a page and have to buy a license that costs 19 euros. I am considering buying a license, but I do not get an answer as to how long the license is valid. Okay, I still want to pay. I cannot transfer money because only VISA, Mastercard, American Express are accepted.
Why don't you write this information in the addon description? Look up the term "transparency". What you are doing is a jungle of links and redirects! - Rated 1 out of 5by AKİF, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by DJVance, 5 years agoNon-functional on Firefox in 2020. Asks for Companion App, but till doesn't work after installing it.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15403349, 5 years agoYou have to install an extra 'companion app' from another source. Very suspicious...
- Rated 1 out of 5by thunderamur, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15040304, 5 years agoGot as far as the bait and switch malware companion requirement. I guess this is how to get your project on here and then get your malware installed after the fact, getting around the Mozilla submission rules.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15569107, 5 years agoДанное дополнение позиционирует себя как загрузчик видео с сайтов, однако оно является лишь ссылкой на скачивание внешнего приложения.
This add-on positions itself as a video downloader from sites, however it is only a link to downloading an external application. - Rated 1 out of 5by pelle, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by πEye, 5 years agoThe extension leaves a watermark on all the videos unless you pay.
- Rated 1 out of 5by EkriirkE, 5 years agoRequires additional 3rd-party software to be installed. Nope!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15564627, 5 years agoI wouldn't recommend using this. This will put a watermark on the majority of your downloaded videos unless you purchase a license. The biggest alarm is that this add-on requires you to download an external program (which it doesn't state anywhere in the description). The site claims that it's necessary and provides the source code via github, but no hash to verify it with the source code. Soon after downloading this, I started having some odd behavior with a service via svchost.exe causing high memory spikes, which I had never had since I've installed my OS years ago, and this was the only software I've installed recently in months.
I'm still checking whether the .exe of this addon was the cause, but I would be extremely careful and compile the companion app from the source code yourself if you're set on using this. There's another safer download tool called youtube-dl that is open source, well documented, and free. It's command line only but there's a gui front-end for it that also has instructions to compile directly from the source code. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15560348, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15562010, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Nebula, 5 years agoA letöltött videók minősége értékelhetetlen!! (nem számít, hogy én full-hd-t vagy akár 4k-t töltök le akkor is 320x200- as szintű videót ment le) - The saved video quality is a fucking crap! doesnt matters I'm dowloading a full-hd or a 4k it always creates an 320x200 quality video!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15561132, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by PuppetVaysa, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15559077, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eric C, 5 years agodoes not download anything unless you install another software. crap.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13344656, 5 years agoThis add-on is not what it used to be. You need to install local Software in order to use it and you also need to buy premium in order to use it properly. But Premium is way too expensive. I will Just use JDownloader instead. It is free and works better. This Add-on is bull**** DO NOT INSTALL.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14285854, 5 years agoУстановила это дополнение, потом установила программу, которую дополнение также требует установить, очень долго качала 7-минутное видео (пол часа/час или даже более, компьютер при этом, по-моему, это прилично нагружало, чего обычно при скачивании подобных файлов не возникает) чтобы в конечном итоге дополнение мне выдало, что в углу скачанного видео будет QR-код, так как я не купила платную версию. Я ничего не имею против платных приложений за исключением тех случаев, когда они маскируются под бесплатные. Тем более, когда при этом они ещё и занимают кучу времени и требуют установки дополнительных программ.
- Rated 1 out of 5by quot, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by СлавикиДимон, 5 years agoСобачее лайно! Зачем мне дополнение которое требует установки отдельной программы и ничего само не качает? Вы там уху ели?