Reviews for Ant Video Downloader
Ant Video Downloader by ANT
Review by Dwan
Rated 1 out of 5
by Dwan, 3 years agoThis Addon used to be so great so this pains me to write this review.
The new update after V4.8 messed everything up on my PC. This update made my browser so slow and laggy that I thought I had malware on my computer. I even uninstalled and reinstalled my browser and performed a system restore which all turned out to be unnecessary because the culprit of my problems was right under my nose all along and I didn't even know it.
Once I disabled the Ant Downloader performance on my browser all returned to normal with no more lagging. I hate to say it but this is a BAD extension now and I don't intend to use it anymore unless their are same massive changes in the works to get this extension back on track.
Do better AVD!
The new update after V4.8 messed everything up on my PC. This update made my browser so slow and laggy that I thought I had malware on my computer. I even uninstalled and reinstalled my browser and performed a system restore which all turned out to be unnecessary because the culprit of my problems was right under my nose all along and I didn't even know it.
Once I disabled the Ant Downloader performance on my browser all returned to normal with no more lagging. I hate to say it but this is a BAD extension now and I don't intend to use it anymore unless their are same massive changes in the works to get this extension back on track.
Do better AVD!
Developer response
posted 3 years agoSorry you had to perform extra steps to restore normal browser activity. Next time try running Firefox in safe mode first (firefox.exe -safe-mode).
Our TO-DO list with new features that users send to support and want them in AVD does not fit the screen. There is such term as "growth pain": sometimes we're making big changes to AVD to extend it and make new features possible. Inevitably there will be issues at first; version 4.10-4.12 is the largest change since 2017. No matter how well we test each version before release, there can be pitfalls we're unaware of unless we release the version to the wide public.
Please, perform reset of the extension at Settings - Reset, and let us know if you still encountering the issues.
Thank you.
Our TO-DO list with new features that users send to support and want them in AVD does not fit the screen. There is such term as "growth pain": sometimes we're making big changes to AVD to extend it and make new features possible. Inevitably there will be issues at first; version 4.10-4.12 is the largest change since 2017. No matter how well we test each version before release, there can be pitfalls we're unaware of unless we release the version to the wide public.
Please, perform reset of the extension at Settings - Reset, and let us know if you still encountering the issues.
Thank you.
1,897 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by djdanby, 5 days agoMacht was es soll. Auch auf diversen anderen Seiten neben Youtube. Allerdings ist bei manchen Websites nicht ersichtlich ob es sich bei der Datei die man herunterladen möchte um Audio oder Video Material handelt. Oft lädt man eine Datei die dann keinen Ton hat, oder eine Datei die nur Ton ist, aber keinen Videoinhalt hat. Hier sollte noch nachgebessert werden.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Derakin, 16 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17526896, a month agoStill displays "Native app is not available". Tried hard to find any information in extension settings but there is nothing about it :-(
- Rated 5 out of 5by RiD1, a month agoThis was awesome when it was working but I think this is one of the first apps google targetted on their youtube downloader shutting down spree. We now have a broken app.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13457384, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mark, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by abracsas, 2 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13857576, 3 months agoSo ..it has come to this huh ...
As a user of this extension for about 10 years ...a couple of years ago (2021) when they did the update to the new interface style etc. I immediately warned people to not use it.
Its bad, breaks everything, I reverted back to the last oldest version before that very update ... and I am still using that very version (4.9.2) right now.
I find that it still works good and better then any later version ever could.
I see things havent exactly gotten better since the last time I checked in here.
I also see some people asking for the native app but can't find any. I still have it.
mediafire.com/file/3pzb6vrwhsg6ahr/AVD_4.9.2.rar/file
This rar includes the original 4.9.2 addon installation files for Firefox and the matching native app.
For those interested;
Uninstall any current version of the addon and native app.
Simply extract the .rar
Drag the fx.xpi file into firefox, and it should pop up asking to install
Install the native app if you want
But in Firefox, disable Auto updates on this extension, it just ruins it.
In case you were going to want to try .... I can not guarantee that this specific native app version works with a later browser addon version either. It might just start crying about how that's not up to date. I am not gonna go through the trouble of testing it, I just don't care enough. There are other browser addons to begin with as well.
Now if I could only get Mozilla to stop making stupid changes nobody asked for to begin with as they have done in the past few years ... we'd all be happy campers. - Rated 2 out of 5by SzymonL, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J.H., 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18783735, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18659735, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafaelis, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12286457, 4 months agoElsewhere on this page, the developer has announced this extension is discontinued:
"Sorry to announce but Ant Video downloader is discontinued and will no longer be updated. Support is closed." - Rated 1 out of 5by Ebacci, 4 months agoIt requires you to install a shady desktop program for it to work. What's the point of installing a web extension then...
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rg, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18649033, 4 months agoI give it 5 stars because I tried it against another download app with the same features but the latter did not give me a very good result. I see that in both apps, the video is downloaded in segments, but in the latter the contrast between audio and video is very noticeable. On the other hand, in this one it gives a better result, but even so there is a small cut in the image at certain moments of the video. I have downloaded a 20-minute video in both apps, this one has a better performance but visualizing the result, I still think it needs to be fine-tuned a bit more.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17618953, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by komintorn, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18739392, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Lord_Stoffel, 4 months agoDas Addon funktioniert nicht mehr und lädt auch keine Videos mehr herunter.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18714559, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18718259, 5 months ago