Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
Review by Firefox user 13608920
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 13608920, 7 years agoI have to agree with most people, before Firefox v.57, this add-on was absolutely amazing. I rarely had any problem with it, and I could always find a work-around if the video I was looking for wasn't able to be downloaded on this add-on. I just had to use another mirror and that's it.
Since Firefox v.57, well, it got knocked-out pretty hard.
It's still managable, but the UI is not as appealing then before. It's hard to figure out which link is what, I happened to download 3 ads instead of the video I wanted... the easiest solution is just download every link and remove the wrong video afterwards, which is kind of not efficient, but it still works. Nevertheless, it's annoying and disappointing. I know you are currently working on making it availiable on other popular browser and you're trying to make some hotfix but Firefox is being a meanie with you and all.
I won't be as harsh as other people because this add-on still work! It's a bit more of a task management... but it works.
If you manage to rebuild the AVD into what it was before, it would deserve it's 5 stars and beyond, until then, I can only afford 3.
You probably already thought this through but maybe starting from scratch? Sometimes it helps.
Best luck for you, hopefully it will rain down 5 stars on this add-on in a near future.
Hellder7
Since Firefox v.57, well, it got knocked-out pretty hard.
It's still managable, but the UI is not as appealing then before. It's hard to figure out which link is what, I happened to download 3 ads instead of the video I wanted... the easiest solution is just download every link and remove the wrong video afterwards, which is kind of not efficient, but it still works. Nevertheless, it's annoying and disappointing. I know you are currently working on making it availiable on other popular browser and you're trying to make some hotfix but Firefox is being a meanie with you and all.
I won't be as harsh as other people because this add-on still work! It's a bit more of a task management... but it works.
If you manage to rebuild the AVD into what it was before, it would deserve it's 5 stars and beyond, until then, I can only afford 3.
You probably already thought this through but maybe starting from scratch? Sometimes it helps.
Best luck for you, hopefully it will rain down 5 stars on this add-on in a near future.
Hellder7
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you for your report!
Unfortunately old AVD version is not supported by Firefox 57 and beyond anymore, thats why new AVD 3.0 was completely made from scratch and still need a lot of fixes.
At the moment our main task is to return a support of as many types of streaming video as possible.
Design is the easiest issue here and we will rebuilt it after few successful AVD 3.0 releases
Our developer will be grateful for direct links with any detection problem to our support here: https://support.ant.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Unfortunately old AVD version is not supported by Firefox 57 and beyond anymore, thats why new AVD 3.0 was completely made from scratch and still need a lot of fixes.
At the moment our main task is to return a support of as many types of streaming video as possible.
Design is the easiest issue here and we will rebuilt it after few successful AVD 3.0 releases
Our developer will be grateful for direct links with any detection problem to our support here: https://support.ant.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
1,887 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafaelis, 10 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12286457, 11 days agoElsewhere on this page, the developer has announced this extension is discontinued:
"Sorry to announce but Ant Video downloader is discontinued and will no longer be updated. Support is closed." - Rated 1 out of 5by Ebacci, 13 days agoIt requires you to install a shady desktop program for it to work. What's the point of installing a web extension then...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rg, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18649033, 20 days agoI give it 5 stars because I tried it against another download app with the same features but the latter did not give me a very good result. I see that in both apps, the video is downloaded in segments, but in the latter the contrast between audio and video is very noticeable. On the other hand, in this one it gives a better result, but even so there is a small cut in the image at certain moments of the video. I have downloaded a 20-minute video in both apps, this one has a better performance but visualizing the result, I still think it needs to be fine-tuned a bit more.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17618953, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by komintorn, 22 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18739392, 23 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lord_Stoffel, a month agoDas Addon funktioniert nicht mehr und lädt auch keine Videos mehr herunter.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18714559, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18718259, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18676204, 2 months agoUseless, You Tube/Google no longer alows downloading, even where it's perfectly legal, under jurisdiction.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18664650, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Me, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adi, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adamant777, 3 months agoIt works but a step by step tutorial on how to use it is completely needed. Even on the Ant Video Downloader official website they can do a good tutorial (a detailed one) they should do one.
How to use it?: You have to use Firefox (won't work on Librewolf), install the AVD native app on windows and then install the addon Ant Video Downloader on Firefox. Then go to settings of the addon and allow sending data to the native app cookies on privacy settings. After all that, open or refresh the website with the video and now you can find the video info in the addon icon, select the resolution and download it. - Rated 1 out of 5by Kunta Kinte, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by ThyBountyHunter, 3 months agoDo not use, BS should be able to download out of the box or get go, needing to download another program which my virus scanner blows up about is suspect.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16901058, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12481618, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by BoxCat, 3 months agoIt picks videos from sites that other famous downloaders does not. Great job!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16414109, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18590207, 4 months ago