I 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.

So I love this product, but the only thing keeping me from giving it 5-stars is a lack of a website blocklist in version 10, but 9 had a fully functioning one.

There are times when I get the SIZE of the video & times when I simply get the video DURATION.

Most of the time cannot download live streams at all, downloads audio only or stops downloading prematurely. Other than that - good and very useful add-on.

most days it works, but when it is broken a repair update takes long, like more then a month

Alcuni filmati non vengono visualizzati, solo barre vericali ed il sonoro.

It was perfectly work, but now it make my mac freeze and foreced to shut down. I thought it consume too much cpu and heavy for my mac.. any way too many thanks, if you can solve this issue, of course i will continue to use it again..

dosent work on you tube

Since version 10+ which ditched the companion app in favor of an integrated all-in-one approach, any videos I try to download from online streaming websites are saved in a broken unplayable state on my hard disk once downloaded. The only solution was to manually downgrade to v9.5.0.2 (which uses the companion app) + disable automatic updates. That fixed the issues. VDH developers, please take note. I will revise my rating upwards once these issues are resolved. I'm using it on Linux btw, so that may also have something to do with it.

Recently it started to work better, now more often than not it results in successful download. Still, 2 hours delay between downloads is excessive. 15-20 minutes would be much more reasonable. 3 stars, good, but could be better.

Started good, now creator want cash for downloading more then one video per 2 hours.

對新版本很失望，切換頁面之前偵測到的影片就不顯示了，而且很容易偵測不到影片要清除快取，同時顯示hls和m3u8的設定很爛，因為下載頁面變得很雜。我想找只顯示單一格式的設定卻沒找到，想找舊版本重下載，卻都是更早之前的ui比較簡陋的版本。
對新版唯一喜歡的地方是可以直接在頁面中先重新命名直接下載。

version 1o changed default download folder, no some smart naming impossible to work out.
back to version 9 until fixed
finally lost rating stars

gave it a 3 as it only works on 3 of 8 sites i use it on v-10

Sorry for downgrading. I really enjoy this app. However, VK.com is a major European, Asian, and Middle Eastern social media site. Like other sites, they are improving their prevention efforts to download media for offline viewing unless you use their proprietary tools. After several support requests, unfortunately, I've decided to downgrade Video Download helper from a 5-star rating in September 2025 to a 3-star rating base on the failure to provide a solution for many of their clips and download streams.

Used to work great but doesn't work after update

This extension saves me from buffering hell. The only gripe I have is with the documentation for the new Smartnaming method: I am not fluent in regular expressions and the few relevant options mentioned in the guide do not help me when cherry picking specific text on the webpage.

Until further notice I am using legacy mode so I can rely on XPath to search through div classes and specify normalizing white space, yada yada.
Edit: I wrote this hastily earlier with PLANS to use the legacy mode, but it seems to have been removed. Thanks for making me type out the titles.

Long time user The older version more stable! the new has many bugs. but also love the new abilities! when an issue with a video occurs i wish it would say witch one and not just there was an issue with a download! one of my sights videos i used the older version it worked great for now is a hit and miss on video downloads correctly. almost prefer to go back to last versions but would miss new options! hope things get fixed

업데이트 후 동작이 무거워지고 저장후 재생이 안되는 경우가 많아졌어요. 썸네일 안나와도 되는데 왜이렇게 무거운지.. 앞화면에 있던 찌꺼기랑 섞여서 주루룩 뜨는 목록이 어떤게 원하는건지도 모르겠고 이상해졌음

Yeah it's worse after the last update. Both slower downloads and overall worse interface. I will never understand why people update stuff to make it worse. I mean it's still the best downloader out there. It just became worse.

Good program, but the newest version made the experience worse for existing users. Settings were reset, an additional download is now required, the naming convention changed, the download folder changed to Firefox's default with no way to change it, and animated media previews are enabled by default & sometimes still show up when they're turned off. There's also a small number of sites this extension doesn't work with, where other video downloaders do seem to work.

Make it back the way it was before. You could save directly and specify a file name. Now, if you download three files, you first have to check what you've actually downloaded. It's completely ridiculous.
Stop making it worse. It was fine the way it was. Full stop!