Firefox add on youtube download safe free#

If you have children in your house that use your computer, this may pose some problems that you may not be prepared to deal with. After being asked if you really meant to list sites with adult content, followed by a 'Yes/No' dialog box asking you to confirm that you are over 18 years of age, the sites with adult content will be listed in the dialog box, right along with the sites that have more 'general interest' videos and media. If you wish to view sites with adult content, merely check the box at the lower left corner of the dialog box. Selecting one of the video sites will open a page in Firefox from the Video DownloadHelper web site, with links to the media.īy default, sites with adult content are not listed. The Video DownloadHelper online documentation does a more than adequate job of covering all of the many options you have when configuring the Firefox add-on.Ī left click of your mouse on the toolbar or status bar icon will bring up a list of media sites with directly accessible media content. One thing I'm not going to go over here are the configuration options, under Video DownloadHelper's 'Preferences' menu.

Firefox add on youtube download safe free#

'Send to locker' is similar to the mobile phone destination, in that you have to create a free account at, but now the video is stored in your 'locker' there, on the web. 'Send to mobile phone' allows you to send it to your mobile phone, after supplying the phone number, and after creating a free account at.

'Add to black list' adds the video to the Video DownloadHelper's black list, so it will not offer to try to download the video again. The 'Copy URL' option copies the URL of the video file to your clipboard. Nor could I find anything mentioning it in the official documentation. Since I don't belong to any social networking sites, I could not test the 'Social Share' menu entry.

If you choose 'Quick Download,' the video will be downloaded, without conversion, to the 'dwhelper' directory that Video DownloadHelper created in your /home directory. The 'Download' entry will download the video, without converting, to a directory of your choice, as an *.flv video file. I've found that I get better and more consistent results loading the video into Avidemux, and performing the conversion there. I've found this function, which relies on ffmpeg to do the conversion, to behave erratically at times. 'Download & Convert', the first menu item is supposed to download and then convert the video file into a format that you have predefined. Fortunately, this limitation is easily circumvented by a number of solutions.įilename of video element, displaying choices in the context menuĪs you can see from the above screen shot that I took while visiting the YouTube site, clicking on the 'down arrow' next to the animated icon in my status bar highlights the video file I just played, along with a context menu that pops up providing choices for what to do with the video. Presumably, this is an attempt to impose some form of DRM (Digital Rights Management) on the videos, to prevent users from pilfering the video content.

One of the 'drawbacks' to the use of Flash for playback, for the common user, is that it doesn't allow users to save copies of the videos, without some assistance from another application. However, its widespread adoption may be a few years out yet, since the powers-that-be are still hammering out and jockeying for position over which video format to use and the 'rights' to use certain video codecs. A newer, better way is on the horizon, with embedded video being a part of the HTML5 specification. Currently, the most prevalent video format used to present those videos is the *.flv format, which requires Adobe Flash Player to render the content. It's doubtful that there is anyone on the planet who uses the internet that doesn't know about video sharing sites, such as YouTube and Vimeo, to only name two. Firefox Add-on: Video DownloadHelper by Paul Arnote (parnote)