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  • 6.7
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  • 139
Softonic
  • 8
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  • Very good
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  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Latest version:
4.9.14 06/03/13i
Last month's downloads:
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Size:
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Video DownloadHelper is fully compatible with:

  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8

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Firefox: Firefox 3.0 Firefox
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Available languages

  • English
  • Spanish
  • German
  • French
  • Catalan
  • Chinese Simp
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Euskera
  • Finnish
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Swedish
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Versions of Video DownloadHelper

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Version License Language O.S. Download
Video DownloadHelper 4.9.14 06/03/13 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.9.5 17/01/12 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.8.1 16/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.6.4 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.6.2 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.6 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.4.1 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.4 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.2 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 4.0.2 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Video DownloadHelper 3.2 03/02/11 Free English
  • Windows 98
  • Windows 98 SE
  • Windows ME
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows NT
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 2003
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 8
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Limitations

Download videos directly into Firefox

Nick Mead

Recent changes

  • Fixed bug #381: No in-page widget in YouTube https pages
  • Fixed bug #393: History window does not sort items
  • Fixed bug #384: Cannot change size threshold detection
  • Fixed bug #401: SmartNamer console error message
  • Made add-on compatible up to Aurora (Firefox 10)
  • Added Hebrew and Lithuanian locales and major update for the 27 others
Pros
  • Works with lots of sites
  • Integrates perfectly into Firefox
  • Excellent selection of options
  • Various methods of recognizing videos
  • Avoid auto-downloading ads
Cons
  • Doesn't start downloads quickly
  • Some options geared towards adult sites

DownloadHelper is a free Firefox extension for downloading videos and images from many sites with minimum effort.

You can save videos from sites where there is no option to download the movie to your hard disk. DownloadHelper works on YouTube, MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm, DreamHost and many others. It is also possible to capture all the images from a gallery in a single operation.

"video downloadhelper v4.9.1 - a nice Donationware video-DL's Firefox AddOn"

This is really a easy-to-use nice-working video-downloads option for Firefox (I use FireFox Portable Edition; I can execute Firefox from a flash drive on almost any Windows pc, without installing Firefox.) This software is Donationware (they request you contribute if you get benefit). After perhaps 700 downloads (earier version), I donated modest $. I have only made a handful of downloads under Video-DownloadHelper v4.9.1 and Firefox Portable v4.0.1, but DownloadHelper appears to work almost identically well. I just don't like to rate anything as 10of10. I have NO complaints (other than under "Cons").

Pros
  • On most videos (e.g., Youtube.com and similar) I've tried,
  • I can download. SOME, such as an entire television show episode,
  • it did not work on. (I assume copy protection on the website.)
  • Once you start the display of the video, the icon animates,
  • and you can download the video as a file.
  • (On some websites, the video automatically starts to display,
  • causing the DownloadHelper icon to automatically animate.)
Cons
  • Upgrading to (Firefox) Download Helper v4.9.1, appeared to require me to upgrade to Mozilla FireFox (Portable Edition) 4.0.1,
  • and to make it work for me>>
  • After install of Video-DownloadHelper v4.9.1,
  • I had to: right-click on DownloadHelper icon,
  • select preferences (behavior), and under "When I click on the Icon,"
  • I selected "Open Menu" as the behavior,
  • in order to be able to download.
  • This is why I downrated "Installation".

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