Firefox - Version 57.0 and later, Your experiences, Issues & Recommendations

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

As far as I can see, this thread is still about fairly general Firefox issues, so here's my latest problem. I have Win 10 64, 1909 and I mostly use Firefox 76.0.1. In the last couple of days, it's become very difficult to download videos, especially from YouTube using Easy Youtube Video Download Express. Sometimes I can, but usually, I can't and just get a blank second page up. Using Flash downloader for other, previously easy to get videos, the file name goes to the download folder, locks up and then Firefox freezes. I can deal with this by going to Task Manager, but the next time I try, the same thing happens. So is my software corrupted, are both problems related or not and could it be that things being done to make downloading much more difficult? Anyone else having similar problems and if so, any suggestions?

1 to 4 star rating users are saying Easy Youtube Video Download Express....
is unstable / unreliable and thats the start of the issues - dont be fooled by the high rating

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...ideo-download/

This response seems to be through a few for flash

Developer response
posted 13 days ago
Hi,

There was an issue with Firefox 76.
Add-on is back working!
Please update to version 1.0.9.86.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...flash/reviews/

[Manfromuncle]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

Anyone else having similar problems and if so, any suggestions?

For youtube, I use this....

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html

NB I use this on Linux so can't vouch for the windows port but it does do an excellent job. FF77 has been released though.

As a further thought check your FF plug-ins that they don't require a permissions update

Hope it helps

[CARLTON BROWN]

Originally Posted by Manfromuncle

For youtube, I use this....

https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/index.html

NB I use this on Linux so can't vouch for the windows port but it does do an excellent job. FF77 has been released though.

As a further thought check your FF plug-ins that they don't require a permissions update

Hope it helps

Yes, I now have FF 77. Don't see much difference. But thanks for the link and I'll see what happens with this.

[EsotericKnave]

Originally Posted by CARLTON BROWN

As far as I can see, this thread is still about fairly general Firefox issues, so here's my latest problem. I have Win 10 64, 1909 and I mostly use Firefox 76.0.1. In the last couple of days, it's become very difficult to download videos, especially from YouTube

You could try this:
https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

[LiamA]

I have Firefox 78 and on there is the Webroot Filtering Extension. Occasionally I have noticed recently that the icon won't appear. I'll have to disable it and then re-enable it for the icon to appear. Is anyone else having this trouble?