1804221 - The Video DownloadHelper extension does not download from YouTube anymore

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Michel Gutierrez]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0

Steps to reproduce:

Due to a recent change in YouTube, the latest Video DownloadHelper extension, 7.6.0, often fails downloading from YouTube and displays a "invalid data" error.

The problem has been identified and fixed in version 7.6.5 and is now waiting for review from add-on team editors.

HOWEVER, the previous version of the extension, 7.6.3, has been staying in that queue for 2 months without review before being replaced yesterday by the 7.6.5 release.

Since the add-on review process is broken, without any special action from Mozilla, this fixed version won't be released and the add-on will simply die. This would be a shame for an add-on that has been in the top 3 most popular Firefox add-ons for the past 16 years.

For the records, the MS Edge 7.6.5 version of the add-on went public 6 hours after being submitted. There is no point for the Chrome version since it does not download from YouTube anyway.

In addition, the amo editors mailing list does not exist anymore and my direct contacts at Mozilla do not respond. My only chance to get attention is to open a bug here.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Toolkit::Add-ons Manager' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Alex Cornestean]

Hello Michel,

I checked the latest version of Video DownloadHelper 7.6.0 available on AMO, with the latest companion app installed, on several YouTube videos and could not manage to download any of them, confirming the issue you mentioned. Tested on the latest Nightly 109.0a1 under Windows 10 x64.

Since you also mention there is already a fix for the above issue, but the new add-on version is stuck in review, I’ll NeedInfo a developer who might help.

@ Will
Would you be able to take a look and see what the issue is that’s holding back the review process? Thank you !

Comment 3

[William Durand [:willdurand]]

This isn't something I can do unfortunately.

Comment 4

[Michel Gutierrez]

Scott Devaney just notified me about what the problem was.

The issue with new versions of the extension not being reviewed was that i uploaded them to Mozilla in "unpublished" mode (the reason is that i regularly release beta versions using a script and amo remembers the last mode). When pushing the final version, i forgot to switch back to "published" mode.

So, i just released a new 7.6.6 version, this time in the correct "published" mode, so it should now appear in the amo editors review queue.

Comment 5

[Michel Gutierrez]

7.6.6 that fixes the YouTube issue and several others is now public. Thanks all for your help.

Not sure how to mark this issue as RESOLVED as it should be.