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When will Mozilla release a Native Application to allow Ant.com's video downloader to work on latest Firefox version ( works on versions earlier than 58)

RexBarker
RexBarker
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Ever since Firefox 57 was upgraded to version 58 the Ant.com video downloader I have been using for several years has ceased to work. Ever since then Ant.com have kept advising that they continue to wait for Mozilla to produce a Native Application that would allow their video downloader to work on latest version of Firefox but there has been no sign of this happening. The only solution they suggest in the meanwhile is to backdate Firefox to version 57 but am reluctant to do this as I don't know if there is a serious chance of this having negative consequences. Has anyone heard anything about the Native App becoming available in the near future? Alternatively, can anyone suggest a reliable alternative to Ant.com's video downloader?

Thanks in advance, Rex

Ever since Firefox 57 was upgraded to version 58 the Ant.com video downloader I have been using for several years has ceased to work. Ever since then Ant.com have kept advising that they continue to wait for Mozilla to produce a Native Application that would allow their video downloader to work on latest version of Firefox but there has been no sign of this happening. The only solution they suggest in the meanwhile is to backdate Firefox to version 57 but am reluctant to do this as I don't know if there is a serious chance of this having negative consequences. Has anyone heard anything about the Native App becoming available in the near future? Alternatively, can anyone suggest a reliable alternative to Ant.com's video downloader? Thanks in advance, Rex

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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton
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Mozilla is not responsible for the compatibility of addons for Firefox. It is the developer's responsibility to make the necessary changes to their addon in order for it to work with the latest version of Firefox.

If the website needs to be able to install a NPAPI plugin to Firefox, then it will never be compatible because Firefox discontinued support for those plugins in Firefox 52 and above.

There are plenty of other web-based alternatives to download videos online and there are plenty of other Firefox addons that are similar. Just make sure that you are using them for legal downloading only.