Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
Review by Seb
Rated 5 out of 5
by Seb, 3 years agoEDIT:
Many thanks dev team, the reset solution solve the memory leak issue.
Back to 5 stars !
I had to retry several times because even getting the settings tab clicking on the icon was imposssible due to memory leak bug triggering immediately after start.
So you're probably right the extension storage was corrupted after upgrade and caused this bug.
Why not releasing a new version which auto-resets at first start after installation in order to solve the issue for everyone ?
I used this shortcut to get into the settings without the annoying button bug (UUID should be different, identify with Firefox "about:performance" tab):
moz-extension://b3f1c4cd-c575-44b6-b256-5524cf739da3/ui/frontend/dist/settings.html
Then, first reset try hanged (memory leak again).
Next time I uninstalled extension/ restart Firefox / reinstalled the extension and used the reset option again which at last succceeded
thank you for posting this solution !
Many thanks dev team, the reset solution solve the memory leak issue.
Back to 5 stars !
I had to retry several times because even getting the settings tab clicking on the icon was imposssible due to memory leak bug triggering immediately after start.
So you're probably right the extension storage was corrupted after upgrade and caused this bug.
Why not releasing a new version which auto-resets at first start after installation in order to solve the issue for everyone ?
I used this shortcut to get into the settings without the annoying button bug (UUID should be different, identify with Firefox "about:performance" tab):
moz-extension://b3f1c4cd-c575-44b6-b256-5524cf739da3/ui/frontend/dist/settings.html
Then, first reset try hanged (memory leak again).
Next time I uninstalled extension/ restart Firefox / reinstalled the extension and used the reset option again which at last succceeded
thank you for posting this solution !
Developer response
posted 3 years agoGlad to hear the problem is gone.
Regarding the auto-reset of storage on install, good point, we'll implement right in the next release.
Contact support if you need any kind of assistance with AVD.
Thanks!
Regarding the auto-reset of storage on install, good point, we'll implement right in the next release.
Contact support if you need any kind of assistance with AVD.
Thanks!
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17526896, 13 days agoStill displays "Native app is not available". Tried hard to find any information in extension settings but there is nothing about it :-(
- Rated 5 out of 5by RiD1, 21 days agoThis was awesome when it was working but I think this is one of the first apps google targetted on their youtube downloader shutting down spree. We now have a broken app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13457384, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mark, a month ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13857576, 3 months agoSo ..it has come to this huh ...
As a user of this extension for about 10 years ...a couple of years ago (2021) when they did the update to the new interface style etc. I immediately warned people to not use it.
Its bad, breaks everything, I reverted back to the last oldest version before that very update ... and I am still using that very version (4.9.2) right now.
I find that it still works good and better then any later version ever could.
I see things havent exactly gotten better since the last time I checked in here.
I also see some people asking for the native app but can't find any. I still have it.
mediafire.com/file/3pzb6vrwhsg6ahr/AVD_4.9.2.rar/file
This rar includes the original 4.9.2 addon installation files for Firefox and the matching native app.
For those interested;
Uninstall any current version of the addon and native app.
Simply extract the .rar
Drag the fx.xpi file into firefox, and it should pop up asking to install
Install the native app if you want
But in Firefox, disable Auto updates on this extension, it just ruins it.
In case you were going to want to try .... I can not guarantee that this specific native app version works with a later browser addon version either. It might just start crying about how that's not up to date. I am not gonna go through the trouble of testing it, I just don't care enough. There are other browser addons to begin with as well.
Now if I could only get Mozilla to stop making stupid changes nobody asked for to begin with as they have done in the past few years ... we'd all be happy campers. - Rated 2 out of 5by SzymonL, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.H., 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18783735, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659735, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafaelis, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12286457, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18649033, 4 months 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, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by komintorn, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18739392, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lord_Stoffel, 4 months agoDas Addon funktioniert nicht mehr und lädt auch keine Videos mehr herunter.