It only works sometimes with the download button in the bottom left hand corner. The other download button has gone and sometimes re-appears for downloads from my email. I have an error message going on about running an Administrator account with elevated privileges, what BS is that? Says IDM has no sufficient access rights to show Download panel inside its windows (error code 5). Talks about unchecking a box in the administrator part of the browser. How am I supposed to do that, its got nothing to do with me?
Anyway, I'm guessing its because I have the trial version as I never had any problems with the bought version I had before. I would purchase IDM but now I'm not sure if it will work. Can you confirm that the paid one works? Or fix this free one. Thanks B Ross

It used to work pretty well. Now it fails as often as it downloads. And you can't see where it's saving the video when you go to Tools - Downloads. And it frequently changes the default download folder on its own.

I've been a big fan of Video Download Helper for a while now... until version 7.1.2. Now over half my downloads fail and what doesn't takes twice as long using the "Companion App".

Regressed from previous versions. Usage not straightforward, tricky, and slow. Thanks for the free offering though.

pay for converter

Requires a companion app to be installed on your computer and updated to use in your browser.

Downloaded VDH, and when I went to install, Firefox warned me of the permissions this program requires - ugh!
Looks like spyware.
I aborted install.

Download Helper will not download videos with music in them.

no encuentro la palabra instalar

Extrêmement long pour les téléchargements, fonctionnement non convivial

I'm fed up with the specific problem of Firefox allowing addons to open a tab and switch to it. When I do an important task, fill out an administrative form, telecommuting, upload a video on Youtube, capture a whole page, in short any task that needs to stay on the page for a long time, it's not at all time to be switched to an update tab, for example, from an addon who abuses this function without way to disable it! Thanks Firefox for not disabling this feature! Another thing, this addon, useful in the past, does not download any video on important sites like Facebook, Youtube (which obliges to install an unknown software to download a video), ... I uninstalled this addon!

Half the time it doesn't work. I never know what it is going to display. I don't see any controls for it, I don't see where the options are for it, Today, instead of a text box prompting me for the location of the file to download, I get a full browser page that is empty, with the works" Video Download Helper" in the upper left. No clue what is going on.

grrr

I gave it two stars, because sometimes it works as it is supposed to. About 1/2 to 2/3 of the time it works. OK.

This used to be a good extension.
However, it is now required to purchase a companion app to download HD flux without watermark.

War mal gut jetzt nicht mehr.Früher konnte man mit einem "klick" ein You Tube Viedeo herunterladen.Jetzt muß man noch zusätzliche Tools hinzu laden.Nein,wird entfernt.Oder ist das nur bei Windows 10 ?

I have been a VDH user for many years. Most of that time, I have had great results. However, since the use of the VDH Companion App has become necessary, I have encountered new problems, not sure if they have been reported on the forum because most of my search questions get no results. The problem is that this VDH Companion App causes, and has done so many times now, all 4 of my iMac computer cores to come on And my fan speeds to almost max out. 1796 and higher. How do I know this VDH Companion App is causing this for sure? I used Activity Monitor to find out. Once I used Activity Monitor to shut down VDH Companion App, my core use went back to normal and my fan speed dropped to normal. I had to use Activity Monitor to Shut down the VDH Companion App because I could not figure out how to do it otherwise and it was Continuing to run, even after I had Quit Firefox. How is this even possible? No apparent way to shut it off. Another issue is that there is no easy or clear way to contact the developer that I can find. I tried, again, searching on the Firefox Support forum on the VDH page, but Nothing comes up. I can't find a way to get feedback or questions to the developer. Apparently, there is a way, because I see that people post, but I can't find it. Why is there no direct link or email feedback form posted? Most of my other FF Add-Ons have a direct way, like an email link, that I can use to contact them. I see that many people have posted issues with the VDH Companion App as well.

Uso a muitos anos essa extensão, ja colaborei com donativo de tão boa e funcional que era. A partir da versão 7, o app ficou muito ruim. Não consigo entender qual versão de um video baixar porque não fica claro entre as opções de download, não mostra o tamanho da midia que será baixada, não baixa mais na mesma pasta, a menos que se use um outro app companion, o icone do app não tem mais a animação, que indica a presença de midia no site, enfim uma série de mudanças que me levaram a desabilitar o app e buscar outra solução. Uma pena pois sempre foi excelente, recomendei para diversos amigos mas hoje na versão 7 está inviável.

One hour video took three hours to download. It was 720p. So yeah night happy