Whenever I install this plugin my computer slows down drastically. this cannot be normal.

AVD used to be Perfect! I could download it, use it, get the video file, and view it. It worked. Now, with every update it's getting worse and worse! Not only does it not work no more, my computer crashes so bad my only option is to hold down the power button and restart my computer. Why?! Why did you guys have to mess with perfection? It was perfect, it didn't need any updates! Now, your latest update needs to be updated again because not only does it not work, it causes my computer to crash!

Developer Response: Well sir what you need to do is...

No! What you need to do is re-upload "AVD-NativeApp-3.3.40-Release" Leave AMD alone and work on a different project. This gonna be like "Adobe Flash" just keep messing with it till you destroy it.

Causes memory leak on Firefox; it filled up my 16gb ram within a minute or two, the only way to fix it was to restart my computer.

Если вы ищите какое дополнение убило ваш браузер, вы угадали. Сейчас попробую полностью переустановить дополнение + программу, и надеюсь, что это исправит ошибку, и вам советую.

А дополнение само по себе классное, если этих проблем не будет, то оно суперское! Надеюсь, разработчики постараются исправить эту проблему, ведь сейчас у многих людей не работает браузер, и не все могут додуматься об отключении дополнений. Что уж там, даже мне пришлось потратить немало времени, чтобы найти дополнение, которое вызвало эти проблемы (У меня больше десятка дополнений). А Дети? Дедушки и бабушки? Они же не смогут всё это сделать...

Я очень благодарен разработчикам за дополнение, потому не стал ставить низкую оценку. Надеюсь, таких проблем в дальнейшем не будет.

Had any problems with overloaded RAM etc. De- and Reinstall did solve the problem.
I can say: MVP under the Videodownloader !!!!!

UPDATE 2: It is definitely re-occuring every couple of reboots for me. It is very evident at browser start. It is likely there is some database issue or history issue with the recent version that is instantly fixed if you just wipe and reset.

UPDATE: The problem occured again a few days after reinstall. Repeated steps and now on Build 4.1.2 Build 2 (Jan 11 2022) to see if the problem occurs again but it is working fine again. ffprobe.exe was not the cause of the high system resource useage, it was just firefox.exe according to Process Explorer.

Like everyone, I had a problem with this addon recently causing browser wide issues.
I can't even access the addon menu to remove it either. I disabled it for a few days and then fixed it today.

Follow these steps as explained by the dev and it should reset it for you back to working condition:

1) Uninstall addon from extensions.
2) Reinstall addon.
3) Click on the ANT icon in the toolbar, select "settings" link.
4) In the ANT's settings tab, go to "Reset".
5) Click "Wipe Out and Reset".
6) Restart browser, reinstall the native AVD app if necessary.

I hope the devs in the future can do more testing to prevent legacy extension data from a previous version from crippling the entire browser.

Cheers and thanks for the addon.

"1) Start Firefox in safe mode (firefox.exe -safe-mode)
2) Remove AVD
3) Google "firefox remove extension data"
4) Remove extension data
5) Reinstall AVD 4.12. Wipe out storage for the final shot.

Get back if it didn't help."



Before reading your reply I've unistalled the extension and deleted most of the files that had antt in their content.

Reinstalled addon (and host app). Worked fine, so wipe/reset from addon options. Unfortunately after a few hours everething went back to the same shit with memory leaks.


Do you want me to remove all of the storage\permanent\chrome\idb contents? Like my other extensions data?


If the problem persists I'll prolly revert to the old version which I liked better (more streamlined, less clutter). Unless the problem lies with the host app.

You've broke it. You need to go back a version, not try to create a fix for a problem you can't reproduce yourselves. You literally will lose so many users who will be looking for alternative add ons.


This used to be a great product, now its dangerous, and should not be installed.

This is the worst software update i've ever seen in my life, everything was working good until you decided to ruin it with this ridiculous, useless, dangerous update.
Like a lot of other people wrote in these last days, something is wrong with RAM usage, in my case it freeze my PC for minutes, not only the browser.
Don't trust you anymore, never using this again.

Just want to report that doing a full "Wipe Out And Reset" under "Settings" completely solved the memory leak/build-up issue! Some weird UI issues (affecting other Firefox addons as well) also disappeared after the reset.

(Hopefully more Firefox users are able to figure this out, or they might think it's an issue with a Firefox update & switch browsers... >.<)

I wish to confirm you that uninstalling and then re-installing AVD following the procedure you described for resetting the cache has solved the memory leaks problem.
Keep up your good job !

Currently (1/7/22), Ant takes up more than 5Gb of memory rendering Firefox unusable.

be very careful with this, there's a huge memory leak, I was at 20,000mb yes 20gb in my firefox browser in the last week or so, 01-06-2022 and I thought something was wrong with my net connection, updating games or devices, nothing, and I turned off about 25 addons in firefox, it was the ant. it took over 5-6gb just in the main window with nothing in it waiting to browse with some text boxes of other interesting news ff plops on there for $. when the meory leak is fixed, I'll put this back to 5/5.

It worked great until today. Now it eats all the RAM it can get and a lot of CPU immediately after browser startup. Currently, the addon makes using the browser impossible, so I had to disable it.

UPDATE:

After deleting the addon and adding it again, the addon seems to work great. No memory leaks at all.
I am updating my score to 5 stars

ORIGINAL:

It was working great some weeks ago. Now it's impossible to work with it.

Has huge memory leaks when I open it. Firefox ends taking all of my RAM (12 GB of my 16GB). My computer gets laggy and I have to close Firefox just 5 minutes after opening it.

I will disable the addon until this big issue gets fixed.

It was a great addon, but not anymore.

EDIT:


Many thanks dev team, the reset solution solve the memory leak issue.
Back to 5 stars !

I had to retry several times because even getting the settings tab clicking on the icon was imposssible due to memory leak bug triggering immediately after start.

So you're probably right the extension storage was corrupted after upgrade and caused this bug.

Why not releasing a new version which auto-resets at first start after installation in order to solve the issue for everyone ?

I used this shortcut to get into the settings without the annoying button bug (UUID should be different, identify with Firefox "about:performance" tab):

moz-extension://b3f1c4cd-c575-44b6-b256-5524cf739da3/ui/frontend/dist/settings.html

Then, first reset try hanged (memory leak again).
Next time I uninstalled extension/ restart Firefox / reinstalled the extension and used the reset option again which at last succceeded

thank you for posting this solution !

This 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!

It has become awesome again, thanks!

Minor issues:
- Please add a horizontal scroll in all downloads page. Tablet view, cuts half of it.
- Reset failed downloads disappear and don't appear anywhere.

UPDATE 2-16-2022
It's broken again. Please fix!

Does exactly what it's supposed to do. A clean install fixed the memory leak issue.

*SOLVED*

Used to be amazing, but now has a serious bug that maxes out your CPU and RAM usage. Be careful with this one.

This add-on is still the best at what it does. When Down-Them-All failed, it's the only thing that's worked.

Please, next time, don't release a new rebuild of your work before major holidays. Wait, test it some more, then drop it when you can fix it.

Love the work, thanks for the fix! Updated 1/8/22

I'm not sure what happened to my go-to video downloader after this "update". It shows every type of media for download in a cluttered UI and the list of issues goes on and on.