CNET Editors' review
This free toolbar gives users one-click access for downloading their favorite video files, but users will need to either download and install the free video player or use their own to actually play the files.
Video Download Toolbar fits snugly into your Internet Explorer Window. The toolbar itself isn't customizable, and doesn't offer users the more standard toolbar features, such as e-mail notification, and weather information. It does offer a wide array of shortcut buttons for searching, downloading, playing, and browsing for videos. The Settings menu let us select the location for the downloaded files, as well as apply settings to avoid duplicate and incomplete file downloads. With the Auto button turned to on, each video link that we visited automatically started downloading. A small window popped up, displaying snippets from the video, and the download status. In our tests, each file was quickly and successfully downloaded and saved to our location of choice.
As a bonus, the toolbar also has a link to its free FLV player if you don't already have one. And, in case you need any help, there is also a link that takes you to the publisher's Web site to for answers. Video Download Toolbar is recommended for any user who frequently downloads FLV files.
Publisher's Description
From Video Download Toolbar:
Video Download Toolbar is a free Youtube downloader that allows even the most demanding users to download all FLV videos in 1 click. The best videos from the most popular Web sites as YouTube, Google, MySpace, IFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, blip.tv, vidiLife, CollegeHumor, Sike, CurrentTV, directly to your computer in the easiest way. This toolbar enables you to download videos from the running Web page and from all opened Web pages, search for your favorite videos just by typing a specific keyword in the box; it can also search for related videos for you (in 1 click Web pages are analyzed and similar videos are displayed). With this user-friendly tool you will also be able to automatically save videos from the Web sites and play FLV videos directly from Internet stream (FLVPlayer4Free required). Turbo download, limiting downloading of small videos and don't download duplicates videos functions. Browsing downloaded videos as you like. Supports high definition videos and allows multiple downloads.
What's new in this version: Version 2.4 : bug fixes
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All versions:
3.1 starsout of 45 votes
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"Malware that hijacks your computer"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.2
Pros
Not a whole lot.
Cons
Installs malware that hijacks your search results. Everytime I restart my computer is switchs my search engine to Yahoo but its not normal yahoo its some extension site. I switch it back to google and then I go through the whole process everytime I restart my computer.
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"patlabor221"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.1
Pros
good, but there is some video can't be download
Cons
verry efficient
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"Quit and Superb"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.1
Pros
Excellent work with Internet Explorer 9
Cons
Very efficient to download from Yourtube links automatically in IE9
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"Par for the course"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.0
Pros
It's just ok
Cons
I'm not keeping it
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"It was useless"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.0
Pros
None, absolutely nothing.
Cons
It just did not record anything.
Summary
Don't bother.
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"it will harm u"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 2.0
Pros
it works online
Cons
u cannot work off line with it
Summary
it is use less.
cnet editor must have mentioned that it works only online -
"Don't work with windows vista 32-bit ie9"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 1.9
Pros
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Cons
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"great download!"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 1.8
Pros
It is so easy to download videos from youtube using this toolbar.
Cons
can't find any so far
Summary
excellent product!
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"Argh! Malware!"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 1.8
Pros
None that I know of since I had to uninstall it before I could even use it.
Cons
This installed 2 problem programs that I did not ask for: "Somoto" software that set off AVG alarms, & MyStart (made itself the default search engine). All attempts to restore the search engine to Google failed, even after uninstalling this program.
Summary
Looks to me like it's just a piggy-back for malware.
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"VERSION 1.6 WAS THE BOMB"
Version: Video Download Toolbar 1.6
Pros
Quick efficient and lets you select destination directory...
Cons
I was very satisfied with this version but I cant reload it because they send me to the new version which stinks.Time to move to another product
Summary
I want to reload 1.6 but they wont let me. Time to move on to another product
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