Not sure whether this will help you: I recently used Video Download Helper to download some Youtube videos. It always worked when I loaded the video page from search results, but often failed when I used the links in the right column. Those links change the page content without a reload and the extension doesn't seem to pick that up. A reload (Ctrl+r) gets the extension back on track in that case.

That's just not he case with me. The videos are on the main page where I try and DL them from. The main problem is that firefox is refusing to show the icon for any DLer that I install. It will not let any of them show up. I have tried 6 DLs just tonight. My favorite being Ant Video Down Loader. They just won't work.

Sorry! Thanks for he reply as well. Just frustrated. ;-)

Some add-on icons may be on the Add-on bar. In case you're not showing that at the bottom of the Firefox window, you can turn it on and off by pressing Ctrl+/ or you can right-click a blank area of the tab bar (or the new tab "+" button).

Or if they are not added to any toolbar automatically, you can check the Customize dialog. This article has the steps for that: Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars.

Video Download Helper also will inject an icon into the Youtube page to the left of the video title (below the player).

Another thought: I don't know if it actually works to run several video downloaders simultaneously; they might conflict with one another.

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Ok so a bit about me. I am a computer tech by trade and have been for more than 15 years. So I understand where you are going with all this. And though I followed some of what you suggested the rest was of no use. It really comes down to the fact that I am running these VDLs one at a time and Firefox will NOT let ANY of then show up or even let me check off the box that says the icon will show up in the status bar. It is as though they have made it where Firefox will no longer let us DL videos from different sites. I tried using these VDLs on multiple sites as well as different VDLs.

Any help is of course appreciated but I still need help.

Thanks in advance!

Hi killian_chi, can you confirm that other extensions work, so Firefox is not auto-starting into Safe Mode with all extensions disabled.

Sometimes the file that stores toolbar customizations becomes corrupted, with various inexplicable side effects. You can rename the file and customize from scratch.

Open your current Firefox settings (AKA Firefox profile) folder using

Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button

Leaving that window open, switch back to Firefox and Exit

Pause while Firefox finishes its cleanup, then rename localstore.rdf to something like localstore.old

Restart Firefox. Hopefully now your extension buttons will populate normally.

Any improvement?

Well I tried that and it didn't help. Sorry for that. I thought that was a great idea and had high hopes but no such luck. I'm really at a loss here as to why it's behaving this way. Keep the tips coming! We'll figure this bug out yet! ;-)

Thanks again!