
Which means you can have one Firefox window open with the JonDoFox profile that’s set up for anonymous and private browsing, and another that has your regular setup, at the same time. DownloadHelper allows for downloading videos instead of playing them in your browser, which can improve security, while ProfileSwitcher allows for opening a new window with your usual Firefox profile, along with all its attendant bookmarks and settings. The other addons will block ads (Adblock Plus), cookies (CS Lite), and JavaScript (NoScript). The technique is effective, but has the unfortunate side effect of noticeably slowing things down. The JonDo proxy hides your IP address from Web sites you visit by routing your browser’s requests through a number of anonymizing online servers. Your original, regular Firefox profile remains untouched.


JonDoFox takes advantage of the feature to create a profile that’s already configured to use the JonDo proxy, along with the Adblock Plus, CS Lite, NoScript, DownloadHelper, and ProfileSwitcher add-ons. (You can also download and install JonDoFox separately.) A quick installation creates a custom profile, normally used by Firefox to keep bookmarks, add-ons and settings separate when different Windows accounts use the browser. You’ll need JonDo to use JonDoFox, and your easiest option to get JonDoFox is to click Yes when prompted to install it when you first start up JonDo. It’s a nicely configured setup that takes very little effort to set up-but using the JonDo option does mean dealing with a major slowdown. Some other features include the ability to convert and join videos.The JonDoFox utility creates a customized Firefox profile that automatically uses the separately installed JonDo program, as well as a number of privacy and security-themed Firefox addons, to allow for anonymous, protected surfing. There is an additional feature to highlight the position of the mouse. This means you can also record your browsing sessions which can come in real handy when you want to show someone how to do something.

If there is a video that the addon cannot download, it will allow you to capture the screen and create a video out of it on the fly. Unlike Download Star and some other addons, Video DownloadHelper’s icon in the toolbar will start spinning when it detects media that you can download.Īpart from supporting a number of video formats, and images, the addon really shines in one particular area.

Video DownloadHelper is a very popular video downloader addon that supports a number of sites and formats.
