
Whenever a video is detected in a Web page, the icon activates. Video DownloadHelper installs as a little icon in the browser toolbar and monitors what happens in the browser. “The complete rewriting of the add-on in early 2015 from a pure Firefox architecture to more common HTML5 technologies allowed a painless port, with a very similar user experience on both browsers”.


“Porting Video DownloadHelper to Chrome has been by far the most requested feature for years since Google enabled extensions on their browser”, said Michel Gutierrez, the original developer of the program, and CEO of ACLAP, the Video DownloadHelper editor. Since 2008, it has been the second most downloaded extension on Firefox, with 200 million downloads and over 5 million users a day. Often referred as the Swiss army knife of video capture, Video DownloadHelper is a very popular Firefox add-on to download videos from most Web sites. Thank you if you want to help this little project.Today, the first version of Video DownloadHelper for Chrome has been launched on the Google Web Store ( ). (under development mode)Ĭontributions (Pull Requests) are also welcome! Download the zip and then you can load unpacked version in Chrome.It should work, but not fully tested on Firefox via Chrome Extension Foxified. Using npm run build to pack to dist/ Install on Firefox or other browsers?

But you are still able to use the web version: Unit Tests It is a cut-down version ( original extension page) that does not support Youtube download and all other adult sites. On 31/Oct/2017, Google has reinstated the extension, which is available at: made by The Video Downloader is a Chrome Extension that helps you save your favorite videos. Chrome Extension to Help Download Video for Some Video Sites.
