Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by mig, Paul
3,324 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by tdj1138, 7 years agoI liked the older version of Download helper. I am having problems with the companion app. that seems to be required to download most videos. It seems to introduce a lot of complications to the download process.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13121403, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13816259, 7 years agoHaven't been able to download from Youtube for a while. Other than that, an essential plugin.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13814677, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Tanja, 7 years agoThis add-on is the one of my favorites.
I've used it for almost 10 years and for the most part, it does a good job of downloading videos via the Firefox browser, mainly flv and mp4 video, but it works for mpeg, wmv and jpg image files as well.
It's free, never had any issues with malware or adware.
It is almost all that I wish from down-loader, it is very useful and easy to work whit it.
I truly recommended it to everybody. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13813737, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by joemiller, 7 years agoDoes what it says.. would be nice to have preferences of output options instead of all the options they give you, which can get quite busy with multiple videos on a page, but with a little patience it'll get the job done. Thank you!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13810568, 7 years agoDoes what it says on the label -- zero complaints regarding functionality or compatibility so far. Now, would I really rather not engage an external executable to do this task? Absolutely. But, this seems to fill the gap, at least until someone figures out an internal solution (involving tech stuff more advanced than the tiny bit of top-level scripting I've learned).
- Rated 4 out of 5by JanetWu02, 7 years agoEasy to use. Works with YouTube. It would be better if it can download video from YouKu and Dailymotion also.
- Rated 4 out of 5by ChaosAngel, 7 years agoWorks very well, even where other apps don't, but occasionally only gets a fraction of a video and can't tell that it has. Somehow winds up with "orphans" a lot, but those can be cleared easily. Usually pretty robust.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13594956, 7 years agoTrès utile pour enregistrer des vidéos type Youtube et autres afin de les visionner sur TV.
La qualité est bonne en général sous format MP4. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13483657, 7 years agomodule très simple d'utilisation même pour une personne agée... tous mes compliments aux développeurs.. je suis ravi..
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13806202, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13806026, 7 years agonot bad just bit slow on converting but the add on is very useful.
- Rated 4 out of 5by David Black, 7 years agoReally nice add-on for downloading video from website. I wish it can choose the download folder and renaming with fewer clicks
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13804844, 7 years agoApp works well and supports many sites. My only complaint is that you cannot set a default download location using only Windows Explorer but must download their utility.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13803603, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13331950, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Scott Merrill, 7 years agoAfter using many other video download add-ons, I think I enjoy this one's the best for it's sheer simplicity. A couple of minor tweaks would make this an app I would gladly pay for:
1) sometimes the downloads get "stuck". There is an option to reload the extension, which does fix the problem. It also deletes the existing download. Would be nice to have the existing download just "pick up", similar to how Firefox automatically restores your crashed pages.
2) the user interface can seem complicated for a non-geek, I would imagine. Perhaps simplify it a bit (maybe allow people to choose "advanced options" if they want, but keep the basics...basic.
3) a "sort-by" option would be a God-send. When downloading 50 files at a time, I would love to be able to sort by percentage completed, or total file size, or whatever. This is my most-desired request.
I probably can come up with about a dozen other useful tweaks I think that would make this the most amazing downloader ever, if you want to hear them.
All in all, I'd rate this a 4 out of 5, based on the issues above. If those were fixed and/or added, I would give this 5 stars ALL day long - good job on a great free add-on!