VdhCoAppSetup -1.6.3.

[soy bitty]

I downloaded "video download helper" app from the mozilla extension area but when I tried to click on the 3 balls to download a video, I got a pop-up saying I needed to download another companion file called VdhCoAppSetup -1.6.3.

My concern is that this file is not coming from the same Mozilla place where I downloaded the first file, and it's also not recommended by anyone.  (The first "video download helper" app had thousands of recommendations. )

Apologies for my technical ineptitude, but is VdhCoAppSetup -1.6.3. from the same person who created the "video download helper" app and is VdhCoAppSetup -1.6.3. safe? 

Thank you very much and sorry to bother! 

[Wild Willy]

I'll recommend it. I daresay a whole host of others posting here would do the same.

Yes it's safe. Yes it comes from the same developer.

I'm assuming you are new to our community so let me start you off on the right foot.

https://groups.google.com/g/video-downloadhelper-q-and-a/c/BzPLK2YyL-s

Be sure you carefully read the first 2 paragraphs there. Once you have read that, you
can check out the references within that web page that I am about to give you. But don't
just find the relevant link & click it. READ the context around the link. I recommend
you bookmark that link & read the entire page, if not now, if not in one sitting, bit by
bit over time.

You find a reference on that web page by searching the text of that page using various
search keys. The search keys I am suggesting are these:

problem report
philosophy
stealth quote
short tutorial
using gmail to post here
various pieces

Next, look for "problem report" within the text of that web page. That will give you a
link. Click that, read what you find, & follow the advice. It's not good enough to just
name a web site. Help those who would help you by specifying URLs of particular web
pages on which you are finding content that you are having trouble downloading. I know
I'm not about to scrounge around on some site I've never heard of to see if maybe I can
find something that does or does not work. Make it easy for me to help you.

Next, look for "philosophy" within the text of that web page. That will give you a link.
Click that to learn all about the VDH license. While you are reading that, you will see
some links to yet other discussions. Be sure to click those links & read those secondary
discussions. They contain important information that will add to your understanding of
the VDH license, what it is, what it does, & what it does not do.

Next, look for "stealth quote" within the text of that web page. That will give you
another link to click. Click that, read what you find, & follow the advice, not just for
your posts in this thread, not just for your posts in this forum, but for your posts
anywhere on Google Groups.

Next, look for "short tutorial" within the text of that web page. That explains why your
response here will use the Reply all button. It also explains why you will NOT use the
Reply to author button.

Next, look for "using gmail to post here" within the text of that web page. That will
give you a couple of links to read, at least one of which is sure to apply to you. Even
if you don't use GMail, even if you use another E-mail tool to post here, even if you
don't post here via E-mail, what it says there about how to construct posts to the group
applies to you no matter how you post here. If you ignore the advice in that reference,
you will appear to be rude. You don't want to be rude, do you?

Next, look for "various pieces" within the text of that web page. That will give you a
link to click. Click it. That will tell you how to find, among other things, both the
CoApp & the latest VDH beta. It appears that VDH 8.0.0.0 has been approved & it is now
the version available from Mozilla. I hope that's the one you got. If not, you should
go back & get that one. As for the beta versions, these come along every so often &
usually fix important things. You should keep this process in mind in case at some
future point a VDH beta comes along that you want.