In the first version of Video DownloadHelper for Chrome, only the core features of the add-on have been ported. When the user clicks the toolbar button, the list of available videos appears, and an additional click on the desired video gets it to the local hard disk for later replay. 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. Some other features include the ability to convert and join videos.Today, the first version of Video DownloadHelper for Chrome has been launched on the Google Web Store ( ). There is an additional feature to highlight the position of the mouse. This means you can also record your browsing sessions which can come in real handy when you want to show someone how to do something. If there is a video that the addon cannot download, it will allow you to capture the screen and create a video out of it on the fly. Unlike Download Star and some other addons, Video DownloadHelper’s icon in the toolbar will start spinning when it detects media that you can download.Īpart from supporting a number of video formats, and images, the addon really shines in one particular area. Video DownloadHelper is a very popular video downloader addon that supports a number of sites and formats.
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