Reviews for Video DownloadHelper
Video DownloadHelper by vdh
Review by CreepyFace
Rated 2 out of 5
by CreepyFace, 2 months agoThe add-on works great, but I miss the dwhelper default folder. I absolutely want it back, preferably immediately! The current download behavior of the add-on is completely unacceptable!
41,678 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Wile E. Coyote, 4 hours agoVersion downloaded May 10, 2026- My review is for THAT version.
When it works, It's a Great tool... but it often loses connections and downloads files without any acceleration. Remember FLASHGET It downloaded concurrent threads and made downloads SO fast... this extension seems to download video 1 Thread at a time. Then it LOSES the connection with NO opportunity to resume where you left OFF!
In the last 20 attempts to download videos, I have been successful at about 27%... just about 1 in 4 attempts will get you a full file. Many times you get only a PARTIAL file... play it and compare it to original video (online) and you will find video is cut short. So you have to START over again with the download. Somehow the Online video doesn't have this problem, even when played while you download! Still, it is BETTER than nothing..although JDownloader suprised me one time and downloaded the stream without issue!
IF only JDOwnloader would do this type of downloading by default!
BTW- Can you make a version for ANDROID version of FIREFOX? Someone already has made an extension for FIREFOX for ANDROID and is using the same name for their extension but their's SUCKS! IT won't recognize any video links playing or Not! - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16094004, 4 hours agodas ist ok! der fehler lag an einem anderen addon.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19924729, 12 hours agohace unos días habilitó descargas en bilibili a 1080p. ahora solo de puede descargar a 480p. Solo queda valorar con la mínima.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Invader Zim, 14 hours agoAn absolute lifesaver. It's easy to use and works when nothing else does, 100% recommend!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19938744, 15 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Some Other Profile, 18 hours ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by petruz030, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13648490, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13245313, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ben, 2 days agopretty useful for manually downloading videos from sites that make it a little harder ;)
- Rated 4 out of 5by GanjaGuru, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by LaKanDor1007, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19893804, 2 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by thebudman420, 3 days agoI remember this addon from years long ago. I normally use other linux tools today but i have been trying to get a download while on a live disc and even though i changed the directory to a hard drive the temp files must be going to the drive / actually system memory and then i run out of space or the file becomes corrupt. The addon used to be a thousand times better but Firefox limited everything add-ons can do. only fix is go back to xpi firefox / fork called waterfox. anyway i still can't get a file downloaded to my hard drive. not sure where temp is going. i am thinking about downloading an extra copy of firefox and running it off my other drive and if that doesn't work i will have to find out how to move my linux temp directory to the other drive while on a live os without persistence. I am using Linux mint 22.3 and yt-dlp nightly failed me this time. first your blocked by the cloudflare challenge but i found a way around that passing my cookie and useragent but the website ended up not being supported after i passed that part. those websites that download from sites for you are all broken. If i could grab everything from firefox cache then mux it all together with ffmpeg this would be easier but to have enough space i will have to run firefox off an actual drive instead of the default one in the live environment .
What is wrong is normal downloads puts the temp file in the folder you selected to download to and this app doesn't do that and it should.
At first i tried save as. Yeah it just downloads to come cache or temp off the main disc that is actually in my system memory because of my live linux. The temp files should be in the same folder where the file downloads to even if that means adding a temp folder in that folder. This addon is borked until that is fixed. This addon was great in the xpi days. No way to get a file unless the file goes to my drive with space large enough for the file. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16992311, 3 days agoThere are other APPs that claim to be a good downloader, but this one surpasses them all !
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18810757, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by LR, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by desusfork, 3 days ago