The most recent release (7.3.7, ) addresses problems that were caused by changes to YouTube. Firefox 57.0 and Video DownloadHelper 7.0.0 were released on the same day (14 November 2017). As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion application increased.
In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL).įirefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. As of December 2019, Video DownloadHelper is the third most popular extension for Firefox (after Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin) and the second most popular Mozilla-recommended extension with 2,848,968 users.
