Since the latest updates, my rating has dropped from 5 stars to 2.
You are now shown so many videos and variations—presumably pulled from the cache—that you have to painstakingly sift through them based solely on their duration to figure out which one you actually want to download, as they all share the exact same filename.
In previous versions—and for years prior—you could simply select fast the video directly from the currently active tab.

It was working but now it stopped detecting videos on youtube as of may 2026

Warning: Enshittification continues... since v. 9.5.0.2! I had to manually downgrade it AGAIN to make it do its job in M Firefox 115!

Although it works pretty well on multiple sites it has a hidden 30$ premium version that's not mentioned anywhere until you try to download two videos in a row.

never works if the vid is rated 18+. and more, needs to pay money to download more than 6 vids.

The 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!

I'm utterly dumbfounded on how this team wants to fix what isn't broken, ever since the update a few months back none of the UI has been right and it is now a chore to use unless you are downloading one video at a time. For example, downloads used to reserve a spot in the folder before finishing, this would help greatly with videos part of a series that save as the same name. With the old style they would auto number in order. Now its all based on which video finishes the download first. With the old version I could choose where I want my files to download to. Now it only defaults to the generic browser download folder, plus a dedicated folder if I want. Some options and things may have improved on one side but at the cost of another. I've gone back to the older version plenty but it seems it is slowly losing support and some downloads just won't operate correctly. I bought a license for VDH and was excited to do so until that update. Now I am just upset... I will gladly change this review when they actually listen to those of us who want it to work similar to how it previously has.

Functional extension, but requires a native companion app to mux HLS streams on the basis that it needs a real FFmpeg binary. ffmpeg.wasm exists and runs entirely in-browser via WebAssembly and other extensions use it for exactly this. The companion app installs a native binary with filesystem access for a problem that has a well-known sandboxed solution. Worth reconsidering due to this imo kinda of odd choice.

Yes it has smart naming, but given the 2 tier UI scheme, and buggy implementation, it's attractive on paper, and less so in usage.

new interface is a pain; results populate faster than they can be used, and the "trash can" button that used to clear results now only clears completed downloads

It seems like half the time it just gives up downloading before reaching the end of the video. They've gotten a bit stingy as well by limiting how many you can download for free. I mean it's fine to have a premium version but would have been nice to know up front. Given it's so glitchy I'm not buying it.

It breaks on a regular basis.

Download only 640p from youtube, limit 2 downloads on free subscribe.

It works, yes. But I need to configure it well. I miss the old settings page, that old complex settings pages. I even have a backup of them. Where are them advanced settings? Did you forget us advanced users?

Специально залогинился, чтобы поставить честные 2 звезды, за QR в видео. Покупайте лицензию, я значит трафик трачу, качаю, а потом узнаю, что они мне там код воткнули". Думаю удалить, так как только для аудио, вероятно теперь сгодится. Стало мусорным расширением.

I've been using this application for years but after the 12\23 update, the downloader is completely broken. It will not download anything.
It will start the process and it says there is an error and the video could not be completed. Hopefully this error gets fixed asap.

Initially, it is working fine, but later it is adding QR code which is much greater in size. We have alternate add ons for video downloader.
DO NOT INSTALL IT.

For some time ive been using this, its just bad. Just get separate windows program not browser extension ( media downloader from github works better than that) If i remember correctly for most files you need to download program anyway and you dont know if your video will have paywall at some point by having huge QR code in it

アップデートでDownload先がFirefoxと別にできなくなった。動画タイトルも個別に付かない。どうなってんの？？

Like others I have reverted to Version 9.5.0.2 and will cease all updates going forward

since the last update it got much uglier but mainly extremely confusing. then where is mkv? i used to download everything in this format and now it is just gone.

Excellent module, fast and convenient, easy to use and works on many many video players. Repost because : December 2025 update is aweful as of now, let's wait and see if functionalities come back.

The download speed has been dramatically dropped since the last update. It's very slow now. Big disappointed.