• Deep memory and storage optimizations — detected videos are no longer stored in browser's storage

• Refactored UI, made more compact and fast

• Mozilla Firefox: implemented requirements of Mozilla Add-on Policies — added settings section Privacy, Native app is disabled by default, downloaded videos are not stored in the Private Browsing mode

• Page ALL VIDEOS renamed back to DOWNLOADS

• New settings for UI, MPD, Scoring

• New feature: mute/unmute video detection on tab

• New feature: enable/disable video detection and separate protocols

• New feature: Show properties on downloaded video file

• New feature: Move to Recycle bin the downloaded file

• Detected videos are not displayed by default on ALL VIDEOS page

• Added Clear list button, added individual remove from list buttons

• Added new settings, added new feature Wipe out & reset add-on

• Misc UI fixes, updated icons

• Created developer version of AVD for Opera and published on www.ant.com while release version awaits moderation on addons.opera.com

• New YouTube protocol. Ability to download videos without Native app, ability to convert videos to MP3 format

• The existing YouTube protocol is now called YouTube Now Playing (YTNP)

• New experimental MPEG-DASH (MPD) protocol (may not download some videos)

• Settings feature

• New UI (popup made compact, new internal pages)

• Numerous bugfixes, scoring rules updated

• Fixed bug when some scoring videos were downloaded incompletely and refused to play

• Improved general quality of video detection and downloads

• Added support of the Waterfox web browser

• Improved error handling in MPD protocol. The new version of MPD protocol is scheduled for version 4.9

• Bugfix: when downloading video in private mode, popup displays the old video title instead of the new filename

• Button TRY VIDEO SEARCH replaced with TOP VIDEO SITES

• Added new rules for suppressing video segments, previews, and advertisement

• Added support of First Party isolation (FPI). AVD can now download videos when FPI is on, as well as using the Tor browser

• Scoring system updates: detection of segments and previews suppressed, fixed video downloads

• HLS protocol: full path to playlist added to configuration dialog. Helps to distinguish different qualities when media playlists are all have the same filename

• Native app: fixed bug in HLS protocol when demuxer.txt file was not deleted

• Native app: when downloading videos in Private mode, the previously used folder is remembered and proposed for the next download

• Native app: FFmpeg version updated to 4.2.2 (helps with some Vimeo videos)

• Fix to reduce NA processes stack up

• New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files directory (top level and this session)

• New feature: UI: added buttons for opening temp files for each video

• Bugfix: video is not downloaded when title consists only of '' char (consists only of forbidden chars)

• UI: fixed display of size of very large files, updated header, updated copyright year, added 'video merging' state to Media page

• Scoring system: suppressed segments detection, suppressed service MP3 files (beeps)

• HLS protocol: up to 5 segment downloads can fail. Used in some playlists with fake segments (pseudo-segments for reporting stats)

• HLS protocol: fixed bug when playlists contain mix of encrypted/non-encrypted segments

• Small bugfixes

• New MPEG-DASH protocol handler, which supports segment timelines

• New fast and lightweight scoring system engine

• MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos are downloaded in separate threads (audio and video) which speeds up downloads

• Support of MPEG-DASH and Vimeo videos without audio stream

• Various bugfixes

• Native app installer is now dual-purpose and can be installed machine-wide for all users (ALLUSERS=1)

• YouTube: bugfix quality is not updated when change it in the player

• YouTube: auto-preselect of best quality

• Scoring: bugfixes, new MPD segments avoidance rule

• Added support of web browsers UC Browser, Waterfox, Comodo IceDragon

• UI: Popup: added badge over menu button with count of currently running downloads

• UI: Downloads page: increased font size of list of downloads

• HLS protocol: fixed detection bug

• YouTube: advertisement videos are avoided

• Added banners to remind when native app is not installed or requires update

• Updated UI

• Added Clear list feature

• Fixed detection on several web-sites

• Bugfixes

• Popup is back

• New features: Show on disk, Play with default player, linear percentage-based progress

• Scoring videos are downloaded by default with Native app if it is installed