Look, when this Add-on works, it works really well. Too bad, this extensions had been awesome for many years, but not anymore. If I find a good one, I'm probably not coming back though. I'll keep an eye here to see if the devs come back to their senses, but I'm also going to look for other apps doing the same job.
We don't need no fancy stuff or whatever, just tell me what videos are on the current tab (limit the displayed list to 5 or 10 items if there's a lot of videos, with a link to open a complete list if needed, which should hardly ever be needed), allow me to select which ones I want to download and where, and that's it. Now, this thing slows Firefox down to a crawl, eats >95% of my available RAM, and it is impossible to access the menu even after reinstalling it or restarting Firefox, before memory usage blasts through the roof, because the menu won't even show up.Ĭlearly, as many other users have said, the devs should revert to the previous version and leave it at that, because it was nice, unobtrusive and did the job as asked.
You guys should deactivate the extension until the issue is fixed, or just totally remove the last update and create a completely new update rather than try to isolate one issue in a bad program.
I wonder if software development standards have dropped so bad that a program like this is allowed on a major web browser like firefox, even though I have reported the problem no one seems to care. You can activate each extension individually, but the moment you activate this Ant Video Downloader the issue will begin again. The affected firefox process is the one controlling all firefox extentions, hence terminating it stabilizes firefox and the computer but it kills all active extensions. Once Firefox is activated the system RAM begins to run wild after about a minute. It took me quite sometime to isolate the problem to this extension. The memory consumption is uncontrollable and very risky for a hard drive. I studied computer science and did some programming many years ago hence I still recognize a blatant MEMORY LEAK and THRASHING - meaning this extension exponentially consumes excess system RAM until virtual memory is activated essentially hanging your computer that even a proper shutdown is near-impossible. I had to uninstall the extension two days ago. Someone created a complicated update and ruined the programming, now the extension is essentially a malware.
I also often get the download running almost all the way through and then says unsuccessfull due to 0kb files.Also a new thing is when selecting to download through browser, which is the much faster option for me, then it downloads halfway through and then suddenly says finished, though only half the file was downloaded. So these extra limitations are quite frustrating. I only have a 4g connection and most of the time only get about 200kb/sec. When I have the option to download through browser and download as mb's, it is much faster. When Ant detects a file as segments to download, it take a very long time to download only a few mb. Then have to start fresh as there is no resume option. I live in a rural area and often have hickups on the internet connection, causing the download to time out. Also please check on the time out settings. It is cumbersome to get to the temp folders. Then I need to reload the page and fresh. I often see that a download is running too fast, and then when I check the temp folder for that specific file, it shows only 1kb segments. On the functionality, I would like to get the link again on each download to the temp folder. Maybe I am lucky, didn't get the memory leaks etc. I find it is an improvement from the last few versions.