Media Downloader Unleashed!! version history - 6 versions
Media Downloader Unleashed!! by 🦊 helloyanis
Media Downloader Unleashed!! version history - 6 versions
Be careful with old versions! These versions are displayed for testing and reference purposes.You should always use the latest version of an add-on.
Latest version
Version 4.0.1
Released Apr 30, 2026 - 420.32 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and later- Added support for downloading files in the background. Now, you can close the add-on tab during a download and it will still continue. Multiple simultaneous downloads are supported. This involved rewriting lots of stuff so there may be some bugs!
- You can now see the download progress from the extension's badge icon when a download is in progress. Useful to check the progress if the tab is closed. This takes the global progress of all the simultaneous downloads (For example if a download is at 100% and another one is at 0%, the badge will show 50%)
- Added an icon on the download button to track files that were successfully downloaded or have failed to download. This is useful to see across multiple sessions which file(s) you have already downloaded.
- You can now refresh and clear the media list while downloads are in progress. Refreshing the media list will still show the ongoing download's progress. Clearing the media list will not cancel the ongoing downloads, and will not clear them.
- There is now a button to cancel downloads next to the loading bar, since closing the add-on tab will not cancel it anymore.
- Segment detection has been vastly improved! Now, instead of guessing if a request is a segment and hide it if so, the extension reads the manifest files and will hide real segments, which means pages with streams, both .mpd and .m3u8 will only show one file in the media list! And if the same site also use raw media files like .mp4, they will still be visible!
- You can now chose to rename files before downloading them, so you can easily recognize them and don't have to do it after the downloads.
- The settings screen has been improved and now looks more modern and is easier to use.
- The download button now has a color hue since this is the main action you will be doing.
- Removed the text while loading the media list as it just looks off.
- Everything still works on Android!
Source code released under MIT License
Older versions
Version 3.6.8
Released Apr 24, 2026 - 406.47 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterMany small new fixes were made in this version :
- Updated the MIME detection method settings as it did not work with mp4 videos. Even when enabled, mp4 videos were detected only based on the URL, as the manipulation I was doing on the mime type resulted in it being listed as "mp" instead of "mp4" which the add-on wouldn't find
- Updated the encoding of file names in the media list, so media with special characters in their name will show the correct characters instead of an URL encoded version
- Updated the media previewer with a new snackbar message, support for translations
- In the media previewer, the extension will first try to check if the media playback is supported natively by the browser for the media's specific file format before attempting to use an external library to play it
- Updated the detection to cache all media with a mime type starting with audio/ or video/ , being case insensitive.
- Added a message when the media list is loadingSource code released under MIT License
Version 3.6.7
Released Apr 12, 2026 - 406.06 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterSome small quality of life improvements were added!
- Added encoding of URLS, so it correctly shows URLs with special characters (like russian or arabic characters) in the media list
- Added detection and caching of octet stream URLs. Previously, data with a mime type of octet/stream would not be saved in the media cache even if it was a stream fragment. Stream fragments are still hidden from the media list, but caching them helps download streams faster!Source code released under MIT License
Version 3.6.6
Released Mar 22, 2026 - 406.19 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterSeveral new changes have been made!
- New settings screen! Now with categories for easier navigation.
- The setting screen now greys out the "Media cache" option when in private browsing as it is not in use in this mode
- The end of the media list now has a link to report a problem
- Fixed an issue where m3u8 manifests would not be fetched with the referrer, making download impossible on some websites
- Added a pop-up when attempting to download .m3u8 files with DRM.
- Made it so there is only one progress bar when downloading .m3u8 streams with split audio and video
- Fixed an issue where the ffmpeg command to merge audio and video in the message box would include the wrong file extension when usingfetchdownloads
- Fixed an issue where pressing "Cancel" on the DRM pop-up would do nothing.
- Fixed an issue where loading bars would instantly fill when downloading some .mpd files (download would still progress but not shown in the loading bar)
- Added support for downloading SegmentList .mpd files
- Added support for downloading audio-only .mpd files
Enjoy the downloads!Source code released under MIT License
Version 3.6.3
Released Mar 4, 2026 - 403.61 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterFixed a bug where the default settings would not apply if you didn't first change the setting manually, making it so the media cache would not work.
If you had changed some settings from the defaults, you will have to set them again.
Also removed some redundant code, and legacy code used in a previous version making the extension even lighter!Source code released under MIT License
Version 3.6.2
Released Feb 16, 2026 - 404.07 KBWorks with firefox 109.0a1 and later, android 120.0 and laterMany updates have occured since the last version :
- Now the add-on is able to download from pages which have cookie verification (like cloudflare protected pages). It can grab the cookies from the media requests and replay them when downloading.
- The request cache no longer stores data from private browsing sessions, and is no longer trying to be accessed in private browsing sessions.
- Added support for more types of MPD files that can be downloaded
- Moved the download button to be the first one on the left, for easier access on mobile devices
- Added a credits button in the bottom app bar
- Fixed an issue where some MPD files would not be detected as such because of a typo I made
- Changed the flow of error reporting. Since it's apparently not allowed to share data in an add-on compatible with Firefox 39 and earlier (at least that's what I assume) now it has become harder to send diagnostic data but at least this should make the add-on available on the store again. If you were searching for the add-on and did not find it, that's why.
Enjoy the downloads!Source code released under MIT License