πŸŽ‰ My open-source downloader extension is now "Recommended by Mozilla" !

Great news! Mozilla reached out and my free and #opensource #browserextension , "Media Downloader Unleashed!!", to download audio and videos is now listed as recommended by #Mozilla !

It's a great personal achievement! When I started working on it out of frustration that you can't right click and save videos on Android, I never expected it would reach above 13k users and become recommended by Mozilla!! Thanks to everyone who uses it! I hope it will continue to work and improve for the years to come! :blobcatheart:

✨THANK YOU!✨

🧩 The add-on : https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/media-downloader-unleashed?utm%5C_source=fedi-share
πŸ’» Its source code : https://github.com/helloyanis/media-downloader-unleashed
πŸ† What " Recommended extension" actually means : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program

(Note : If you want to try it on Android, it looks like a recent Firefox update broke downloading, use the Nightly or Beta app!)

@mozilla @firefox @opensource

#firefox #web #webdev #dev #foss

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[–] 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ok, great, thanks! But what has the internet come to, that you need to detect videos.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    @MonkderVierte Well, for streams for example they don't store the entire video in a single file which can be good. If you only watch half of the video for example it will not load the second half (so saves on data) and it can be played even if it's not entirely loaded.

    But playing these types of files offline is pretty tricky that's why I tried to make the process easier!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    So is this like Video Download Helper but FOSS? If so, I will look to switch.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    @Fmstrat Pretty much. Some parts of Video Download Helper are FOSS but it needs an extra app, as for mine it all runs locally within the add-on while needing less permissions and working on Android too!

    Sometimes it's a bit more quirky with detection (I haven't tried VDH much) but it's completely free!

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Looks promising! Will be installing it when I’m at my pc

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  • Wow, Congratulation!

    I searched a media downloader a while ago for android, and this works! Thanks for creating it!

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  • Congratulations, I’ll check later on the pc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    @helloyanis Thank you for the great addon I have been using for a long time.

    @mozilla @opensource

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    That's pretty cool I used to have a extension called get them all which was a little bit suspect looking and it stopped working eventually but it was great for pretty much exactly this fuck

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I have been using it for the past few months!
    Works like a charm. Keep it up!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    @skeesx wow! A long time user! Thanks!!

    If you like it, you can (but don't have to) leave a rating! 🦊

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (8 children)

    Sadly all of the links are 404'ing from my end at PieFed

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    ...why is piefed changing the links at all?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    they're removing the tankies from the links, damn tankies

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  • Congratulations!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Wow, congratulations on your achievement! I'm not quite sure what your extension refers to :P

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