Video Downloader For Firefox

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Charise Zelnick

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Aug 3, 2024, 10:31:31 AM8/3/24

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I have had 1-click Youtube video downloader addon installed for a little while now and it has always worked well. However, recently I tried to change to a different addon (in fact several different ones) but the Download button then disappeared. I have since re-installed Firefox and returned to 1-click Youtube Video downloader, but still when in a YouTube video page the Download button is missing, no matter which videos I select.

Thank you for both your messages. I did Disable all other Extensions and restart Firefox, but unfortunately this made no difference, even though it did work originally. I have, as suggested, sent an email to the developer and if I do receive a response from them, I will post it to this question.

I have now resorted to finding an extension that does work and although I did this exercise the other day without success, I have now installed "Easy YouTube Video Downloader Express 7.20", which does show a more subtle Download button in Green but in a slightly different place on the YouTube Video page, so instead of to the right of Subscribe button, it is underneath.

How do you wish me to proceed with this message stream as although your suggestions didn't work, the issue has now been resolved by using a different extension, bearing in mind that any response I receive from 1-click YouTube Download developer would be best posted here?

PS - Having now done a little research, it would appear that YouTube has recently made some changes to prevent professional concert videos being downloaded. This has apparently caused many video downloader add-ons to fail. The developers of Easy YouTube Video Downloader Express 7.20 state in the text of their extension that they have managed to overcome the problems caused by YouTube's changes in this version. All I can say is that this 7.20 version does work!

Thank you for your reply, however the reason the list of extensions listed previously did not include 1-click YouTube Downloader as I had uninstalled it (several times) and unfortunately did not reinstall it until after I had added the question. My apologies. It is installed now, but I do not know how to include the current list of extensions installed in this section. I was prompted originally so it was easy then. Any clues please would be useful.

The issue however, is still unsolved. I suspect a file has become confused because of the many attempts at trying to find one downloader that worked, but although they did originally, none of them work now. Any assistance would be gratefully received.

You wrote, I do not know how to include the current list of extensions installed in this section. You can go to the Firefox Help submenu and open the "Troubleshooting Information" page, then click the "Copy text to clipboard" button and paste the information here. It will include a list of installed extensions. See the Use the Troubleshooting Information page to help fix Firefox issues article for details.

The Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars article has details. If that doesn't work (if there is no button for your extension) then I would post a comment at -click-youtube-video-download/ or else notify the extension developer. There's a "contact" link on the extension homepage,

I see that you have the latest version (2.2.4) of the 1-Click YouTube Video Downloader extension and it's enabled. So, if there is no "Download" button for your extension when youare on a page with a video, and there is no button you can add from the "Customize Toolbar" Firefox window:

Go to the Firefox menu, click on Add-ons and then, in the list of Extensions, disable all of your other extensions and just leave the 1-Click YouTube Video Downloader enabled. Then restart Firefox.

Thanks Fred,I tried to download this link It only downloaded 153kb and no video at all. Opening downloaded file just opens a blank firefox page with this in search/address bar file:///C:/Users/attur/Downloads/x6x8urs.htmlCheers,

Further, it works on Youtube, but not video movie sites, Downloads in Firefox HTML Document.I downloaded the Firefox browser Free Download Manager Extension and this does not help at all, Does not load. I made sure it was from correct site, freedownloadmanager.org

Thanks Fred, video fails to download using Free Daily Motion Download. As soon as i enter link, message appears saying video download error. I followed help instructions, such as disable firewall (not happy about that) but still same result.

I was on sidereel.com and they asked me if I wanted to download youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1. I declined but youtube downloader was installed anyway as a FF extension or addon. It came gratis with malware: particularly Web-Protect-for-Windows. And that seems to invite hijackers. Regular resetting of FF keeps Web-Protect-for-Windows at bay but does not uninstall youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1. I have used sequentially: AVG 2015, Spybot 2.4, revo uninstall, Malwarebytes, and HitmanPro. All of these take out the registry hooks and pretty well clean Web-Protect-for-Windows out of the system but do not touch youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1. So Web-Protect-for-Windows is reinstalled as FF launches because youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1 is still installed but disabled. Disabled is obviously not good enough.

I tried FF reset twice and got rid of every extension except the unwanted youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1. Help either sends me to programs I have already tried or tells me to just click on the remove button. But youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1 has no remove button it only has an enable button. I even tried enable to see if the remove button would then appear. It did not so I put it back to disabled. I even reinstalled FF fresh from mozilla.org, but the youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1 is still in the fresh version.

(I am hoping the solution will involve deleting or editing specific text files found under Program files/Mozilla Firefox, but whatever works to get rid of youtube downloader and converter 3.9.1 addon is what I need.)

Because Revo Uninstaller was able to uninstall Web-protect-for-Windows but left the delivery trojan (Firefox add-on) YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1. I contacted Revo support. They suggested closing the Extensions folder so that I was back at the Profile folder found after step 2 of "Uninstalling manually" found at: -US/kb/cannot-uninstall-an-add-on#w_uninstalling-manuallyclose Firefox.Then delete all of the files named extensions.* but not the folder.When I restarted Firefox, I got a window addressed:About:newaddon?id=b9bfaf1c-a63f-47cd-0829-29526ced3667(That string is the unwanted Youtube extensions ID.)that screen told me:"Another program on your computer would like to modify Firefoxwith the following add-on:

And asked me to check a box to approve re-installation of the unwanted extension. I did not check it and just hit the continue box and the screen reverted to the normal opening screen for FF. the add-on page and the troubleshooting page both still showed YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1 still installed but disabled.

I closed FF and deleted:C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\extension\\getvideosoft.xpiWhen I reopened Firefox the regular FF opening screen came up. Both the add-on screen and the troubleshooting screen showed I had no extensions installed.

Reread my statement of the problem. I have already done everything that you have suggested but failed because Youtube downloader 3.9.1 has no remove button. It is 'disabled' but that doesn't make it safe. It needs to be removed.

YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1 is malware. 1) Nearly all of the symptoms listed at the mozilla support site:How do I know that my Firefox problem is a result of malware?are exhibited on my system.2) I found Web-protect-for-Windows listed in my control panel add or remove programs list but it refused to uninstall. YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1 was not listed there. A Google search for "uninstall Web protect for Windows" found the following useful blog: -virus-removal/The symptoms of Web-protect-for-Windows were exactly my symptoms. The primary delivery method for Web-protect-for-Windows was a trojan usually caught on a free video site. I caught my malware on sidereel.com. The trojan most often has the words YouTube downloader in the phony name which you are tricked into downloading. The site recommends attempting to remove Web-protect-for-Windows through the control panel first as that not often but sometimes works. Next it recommends the reset button in IE and FF. And that at first alleviated the symptoms, but over the next couple of days they reappeared showing the trojan was still delivering fresh infections of Web-protect-for-Windows. The FF troubleshooting info page showed that reset had removed all of my extensions except for a new one: YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1 was listed as disabled and has no remove button. This was one of over a dozen programs offered to me for free download. Web-protect-for-Windows was not among the programs offered for me to approve for download. All of which I declined and later study showed all of which were not only downloaded against my choice but were actually all installed with no chance for me to block run nor install. AVG killed all but Web-protect-for-Windows and YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1. The blog next recommended several anti-malware programs and I ran all of them. They all defanged Web-protect-for-Windows by removing registry hooks, but left YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1 as not even identified as a threat, in spite of the fact that it's English description was in the blog as the trojan that delivers Web-protect-for-Windows. Only Revo Uninstaller actually removed Web-protect-for-Windows. Nothing touched YouTube Downloader and Converter 3.9.1.