If they're not featured, at least check their popularity / number of users (if it's in the order of hundreds of thousands or millions, then it's probably in the green absolutely avoid the ones which still have like a few hundred users, as they haven't been tested enough to verify their legitimacy), and check the ratings and reviews for anyone mentioning malware, 'a scandal', or something like that. For starters, those marked as 'Featured' are most probably safe. Since you are new to extensions, you are advised to follow some security guidelines before installing any new extension that you discover. It's not that I don't like them, it's that I didn't bother trying each one of them, since the aforementioned extension settled the deal for me.

The main appeals are that it integrates with my download manager ( DownThemAll), offers a lot of download options, is easy to use, is featured, and unlike another extension I tried, it doesn't advertise for websites nor have user tracking 'features'.īut just like any type of extension, a brief search in Mozilla's extensions website reveals many more options. I personally use YouTube Video and Audio Downloader. Now, since I'm already writing an answer.

Firefox extensions can be searched for and downloaded from regardless of your operating system.īrowser extensions are distributed by the browser's makers themselves (in this case Mozilla Foundation), and can be installed directly from inside the browser, as their code is written in JavaScript and other browser-specific languages, so they have nothing to do with the platform.

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