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Ant Video Downloader by ANT

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Review by Firefox user 14141866
by Firefox user 14141866, 4 years ago
UPDATE 2: It is definitely re-occuring every couple of reboots for me. It is very evident at browser start. It is likely there is some database issue or history issue with the recent version that is instantly fixed if you just wipe and reset.

UPDATE: The problem occured again a few days after reinstall. Repeated steps and now on Build 4.1.2 Build 2 (Jan 11 2022) to see if the problem occurs again but it is working fine again. ffprobe.exe was not the cause of the high system resource useage, it was just firefox.exe according to Process Explorer.

Like everyone, I had a problem with this addon recently causing browser wide issues.
I can't even access the addon menu to remove it either. I disabled it for a few days and then fixed it today.

Follow these steps as explained by the dev and it should reset it for you back to working condition:

1) Uninstall addon from extensions.
2) Reinstall addon.
3) Click on the ANT icon in the toolbar, select "settings" link.
4) In the ANT's settings tab, go to "Reset".
5) Click "Wipe Out and Reset".
6) Restart browser, reinstall the native AVD app if necessary.

I hope the devs in the future can do more testing to prevent legacy extension data from a previous version from crippling the entire browser.

Cheers and thanks for the addon.

Developer response

posted 4 years ago
Other people reported today that even when their issue is resolved, in a few hours it may get back again.

If you encounter the issue with RAM usage again, check if there is a child process called ffprobe.exe running and consuming CPU and virtual memory.

Don't use default task manager for reviewing process, use Process Explorer from Microsoft (former Systinternals):
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

It provides a much better view of system processes.

If you see ffprobe.exe hanging under firefox.exe and consuming resources, kill it and then go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Ant.com\Ant Video downloader and delete ffprobe.exe

You will have MPEG-DASH protocol disabled in AVD but there will be no more RAM issues.
1,909 reviews
  • by SDM, 21 days ago
    useless.
  • by Firefox user 18642173, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 19534879, 3 months ago
    it's pretty good
  • by Firefox user 12226417, 4 months ago
  • by Carter, 4 months ago
    This does not work on Youtube. It can't find any videos
  • by MFG, 4 months ago
    Thanks !!!
  • by Firefox user 12857698, 5 months ago
    Не работает
  • by digitialmagi, 6 months ago
  • by deionne, 7 months ago
  • by purewood553, 8 months ago
    Couldn't get it to work on Youtube
  • by Firefox user 18996030, 9 months ago
  • by kk02@g, 9 months ago
    Native app is not available
  • by Wolf, 9 months ago
  • by djdanby, 9 months ago
    Macht was es soll. Auch auf diversen anderen Seiten neben Youtube. Allerdings ist bei manchen Websites nicht ersichtlich ob es sich bei der Datei die man herunterladen möchte um Audio oder Video Material handelt. Oft lädt man eine Datei die dann keinen Ton hat, oder eine Datei die nur Ton ist, aber keinen Videoinhalt hat. Hier sollte noch nachgebessert werden.
  • by Derakin, 10 months ago
  • by Firefox user 17526896, 10 months ago
    Still displays "Native app is not available". Tried hard to find any information in extension settings but there is nothing about it :-(
  • by BinaraGta, 10 months ago
    some time work sometime no
  • by RiD1, 10 months ago
    This 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.
  • by Firefox user 13457384, a year ago
  • by Mark, a year ago
  • by abracsas, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 13857576, a year ago
    So ..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.
  • by SzymonL, a year ago
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  • by Firefox user 18783735, a year ago