VBOX7 Downloader

CNET Editors' review

by: CNET staff on April 06, 2011

VBOX7 Downloader is a free Google Chrome extension that enables one-click downloads at VBOX7, which is the second-most-popular video sharing site in Bulgaria. You don't need to be Bulgarian, speak Bulgarian, or live in or near Bulgaria to make use of it. You find video online everywhere these days, so why not Bulgaria? We found videos of guys drifting (in cars, not aimlessly) and Russian presidential limousines while just browsing around, but there was a lot of music, sports, comedy--in other words, the usual video share fare, just with a Bulgarian accent. VBOX7 Downloader is extremely small (13.21KB) and totally free. We tried it in Chrome and Chrome Plus; it worked fine in both.

The VBOX7 Downloader add-on installs automatically and doesn't require a browser restart. We clicked the wrench icon on Chrome's toolbar, selected Tools/Extensions, and opened the software's page, which offered links to the developer's Web site and other information, but no options to speak of. We browsed to VBOX7, which looks like a typical video sharing site, only in the Bulgarian language. Chrome offered not only to translate the page but to always translate Bulgarian, which helped. We selected a video and clicked it. It opened and immediately began playing. We browsed to several other videos, each of which played as soon as we clicked it.

Video hosting and sharing sites are hugely popular around the world, so it's not surprising that we could find plenty of ways to waste time like a pro on VBOX7. What was surprising was how much unique content there was to choose from. Now we know, thanks in part to VBOX7 Downloader. It's just another great example of Chrome's advantages as a browser, too.