DownloadHelper

Firefox extension tool that aids downloads. Its purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites. Video DownloadHelper is useful tool for web content extraction. DownloadHelper's purpose is to capture video and image files from many sites.

Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with MySpace, Google videos, DailyMotion, Porkolt, iFilm and others.

When you are on a page containing links to images or movies, you can download some or all of them at once. Moving the mouse over the items in the menu will highlights the links directly in the page to make sure they are the ones you want to pick up.

DownloadHelper also allows you to download files one by one, so that you keep bandwidth to surf for other stuff to download.

If you are on a page containing video, but you don't get a download offer from DownloadHelper, right-click on the icon and choose "Check URL", requests will be done to http://videodownloader.net and http://keepvid.com. Allow a few seconds and new entries may appear in the menu.

For downloads with VideoDownloader and KeepVid, you must rename the downloaded files to add the appropriate extension (generally .flv).

To modify your preferences, like changing the download directory, right-click on the icon and choose "Preferences".

This does not change your homepage setting and the welcome page won't appear anymore.

The DownloadHelper extension is no adware, no spyware.

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