How to Display the Video Download Icon on YouTube in Google Chrome and Firefox

How to Display the Video Download Icon on YouTube in Google Chrome and Firefox

How to Fix the Issue of the Download Icon Not Appearing for Internet Download Manager on Your Browser

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Internet Download Manager (IDM) has been my go-to download manager for a while on Windows devices. It's user-friendly, extremely powerful, and one of the best video and media downloaders available on the platform. Recently, I tried downloading YouTube videos and found that IDM does not support this out of the box. The "Download this video" button did not appear on YouTube, while it worked perfectly on other video streaming and hosting sites.

After some research and testing, I found a way to download videos from YouTube using IDM. All you need to do is install the official browser extension of your choice, and you're all set to download videos from the site.



When you play a video on YouTube, IDM displays the "Download this video" button - this is called the download panel - you can click it to download the video to your computer. If the download panel does not appear when playing videos in Chrome and you haven't disabled it in IDM settings, here's what you need to do to make it appear again.

Make sure you are using the latest version of IDM, and that Google Chrome * has its advanced browser integration checked in IDM's general preferences.

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In this article, we will explain the definitive and guaranteed solution to the problem of the YouTube video download icon not appearing. This issue has long faced many YouTube viewers as the download icon does not appear above the video but, God willing, after this post, their problem will be resolved forever.

Fixing the Issue of the Download Icon Not Appearing for Internet Download Manager in Google Chrome

We present to you the following steps with some effective solutions to display the IDM download icon in Google Chrome. The explanation includes both the Arabic and English versions of the browser.

/1/ English Browser: menu > More tools > Extensions
Arabic Browser: القائمة > "three dots stacked on top of each other at the top left of the browser" more tools > extensions.

/2/ Open the installation path of Internet Download Manager. You can access the program path by