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1. h7h2vc says:

   October 30, 2009 at 5:15 am

   http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/6774/youtubecrx.png

   Which button should i click?
   Click->Cancel->Click->Cancel
2. Huh says:

   October 30, 2009 at 8:34 am

   This download button, will it provide a link to the file (allowing me to use a download manager)?
3. Chris Jones says:

   October 30, 2009 at 10:35 am

   Excellent, unintrusive extension, works exactly as it should. Stays out of the way until it is needed and then presents a button in a well selected location on the page for downloading the videos. Here’s where I can make a recommendation for a future upgrade, though. At present it only allows downloading the low-quality FLV version of a video. Some videos are available in an MP4 format. The following greasemonkey script for Firefox adds a bit of code to the YouTube page for making downloads available in whatever format is currently being viewed:

   http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13333

   Perhaps the author of this fine Chrome extension would find it worth looking at that code as inspiration for a version 2 release. I’d much prefer getting the MP4. Whether this improvement happens or not, thank you very much for providing a no-nonsense, simple and functional extension and for supporting this platform that I have enjoyed using, more so now that quality extensions are starting to appear at an ever-increasing rate.
4. Nesmero says:

   October 31, 2009 at 1:32 pm

   Thanks a lot! Works great!
5. Mikey says:

   October 31, 2009 at 6:37 pm

   could you make it download in mp4 or avi
6. tatosgr says:

   October 31, 2009 at 10:32 pm

   Can you make that it pop-up a ’save as’ window so you can put it a name??
7. Laur says:

   November 1, 2009 at 9:27 am

   Only FLV formal ???
8. Gabriel says:

   November 1, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   Rename the file to the video title please!!! I hate ending up with 100 of files “video(23).flv” in my download folder!
9. done75 says:

   November 4, 2009 at 12:38 pm

   best youtubedownloader for chrome
10. Koben says:

    November 4, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Excellent extension.
    However, the are 2 things i would like to be improved:
    - The download buttons tend to stack up, occupying a lot of space specially when the videos have a HD option. I would suggest leaving only 1 download button and creating a dropdown list right next to it, allowing to select the desired format.
    - Having to change the dafault video filename is kinda annoying. im sure there must be a way to automatically rename the video to its corresponding tittle.

    Anyway, great extension
    thanks mate
11. Huh says:

    November 10, 2009 at 10:06 am

    @people-who-want-a-renaming-option:
    - Right click the download button (opening the context menu), and select “Save link as…”.

    @guy-who-made-this:
    - Wonderful job, I don’t have any problems with this extension as of yet. It’s really useful, it’s earned its spot in the “extensions I will never disable” category.
12. fabio santos says:

    November 16, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Awesome extension!
13. Ben Nichols says:

    November 17, 2009 at 3:13 am

    Works well. Thanks! Now I can download videos and get better @ playing ukulele. Chrome improved my life even when I’m not on the computer! yay!
14. raorn says:

    November 19, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Is fashplugin still required to use this extension?
15. Davik says:

    November 19, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    I cannot get it to work. The download buttons are there, but all that happens is the page goes blank and nothing downloads.
16. T.F. says:

    November 24, 2009 at 10:58 am

    Could this be updated to include downloading of only the sound track of a video? It’d be a nice addition.
17. Thicky says:

    November 27, 2009 at 6:06 am

    Nice but it does need to have the option to just download the audio in MP3 format.

    Thanks!
18. BostonPeng says:

    November 30, 2009 at 10:05 am

    I love this extension. It’s finally let me grab YouTube vids without launching Firefox, a task I’ve started avoiding since I demoted Firefox over a year ago. The one thing I miss from Firefox’s Video DownloadHelper extension (http://www.downloadhelper.net/), other than the fact that it works on my local tv news station’s site and MLB videos, is the ability to automatically name the video according to the YouTube name as displayed in the H1 tag. Could we get this naming feature added to the wishlist? That would make an already fantastic extension even better.
19. ROY says:

    December 2, 2009 at 11:09 pm

    Fantastic… works beautifully for me on WINXP SP3

    Have ditched all my other tools for downloading You Tube clips.

    Thanks
20. I cannot add this extension says:

    December 6, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    It says extension is not loaded!!!
21. Vlad Olariu says:

    December 6, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    I love it! Thank you dude.
22. Ancient_One says:

    December 7, 2009 at 8:20 am

    I would prefer to see an added button for MP3 or the ability to select what buttons are displayed on Youtube.

    Maybe in the options you could choose which buttons you want to display on the Youtube page so that you can download the video as a MP3 music file.
23. BostonPeng says:

    January 14, 2010 at 10:42 am

    Will this extension be updated or branched to work with YouTube Feather? I’m really liking Feather but have to disable it to snag a vid.
24. 50tibi says:

    January 14, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Extensions not enabled
25. Mike says:

    January 23, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    Making the file download with a name that is somehow related to the actual video would be a great improvement to the standard “video.mp4″.
    Other then that great!! Thanks a lot.
26. Ilse says:

    January 27, 2010 at 10:53 am

    How do i download this in order to download youtube clips?
27. Joel says:

    February 9, 2010 at 8:32 pm

    Ilse, You must be using Google Chrome browser–simply click the +Add To Chrome button by the headline and it will install. Then on Youtube gold boxes will appear next to video showing options to download that video.

    Great Extension, Finally got a downloader for Chrome–won’t need to open Firefox for just one thing anymore!
28. kyle says:

    February 17, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    im new to using extensions, i downloaded and saved it….. now what do i do exactly?
29. Jay says:

    February 25, 2010 at 12:34 am

    Major cudos man. Thanks a million, this is exactly what I was looking for and if wasn’t for this I would have had to switch back to firefox. (Your a browser saver)
30. Warchylde says:

    February 25, 2010 at 9:53 am

    Chrome ver 4.0.249.89

    Extension not working… no button displaying
31. Mitur Binesderti says:

    February 27, 2010 at 1:44 pm

    After installing this extension I started getting SSL security warnings when going to Gmail. Be careful of this one. The only way to get rid of it was to totally replace Chrome.
32. N. Walker says:

    February 27, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    If I download Google Chrome will I be able to get YouTube to load? We have a dial-up connection, and we have not be successful in watching a YouTube video.
33. daave says:

    March 2, 2010 at 8:35 am

    Cool! Thanks!
34. sami says:

    March 6, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    waw…this one isgreat..thanks
35. dan says:

    March 9, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    i see the downlaod mp4 button… but alot of pages go to a blank page. i tried save link as but goes to blank page. i have chrome version 4 and it said chrome is up to date.

    some download some are blank. no fix for it?
36. Cyr4x says:

    March 10, 2010 at 12:32 am

    http://rapidshare.com/files/361343885/ytdownloader.zip.html

    Modified version with additional button margin and 1080p download (which was missing in original).