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Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)

'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube

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Review by Dark with Green Highlights
by Dark with Green Highlights, 5 years ago
It works fine in my Edge browser. But in firefox, ALL customization I made in Setting don't change anything in my Youtube.

(edit1: Customization now somehow works. So, this review I undo)
(edit2: I agree with another reviewer that this Extension is FICKLE. For example, though I set the Sidebar in Appearance to be 'Collapsed'. One time, sidebar would be collapsed as set. Another time or in the next video, it acts normal, i.e. still shown.

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And worse than that, though video is loading, it CANNOT be played. Every time I press the Play button it would immediately stop. Only when I turn off the extension, my Youtube starts playing again.

(edit: Videos can now be played normally after a new release)

Developer response

posted 5 years ago
hi! ohh sidebar Appearance? in future pageviews, or old tabs? We got 350.000 users but only 100 in firefox now. And spent soo much work for these 100. Lets see whats left to fix! thanks
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Did you feel hurt? We are giving a free gift to the world and we are sensitive. The paused/stuck player can (only) have happened if you have disabled autoplay in ImprovedTube. So I just disabled this feature (version 3.186), since it became obsolete, since youtube has an autoplay button.
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hi, it works, please try again. We work hard on Github & you can report any bug here: https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension (maybe you can reconstruct the issue & describe exactly. Thanks! Please adjust the bad stars. Many smiles!
895 reviews
  • by Re'soul, 4 days ago
    randomly causes youtube to stop working due to "connection not secure" with the only way to fix it being to clear cookies and site data for youtube also since i started using this add on firefox will randomly freeze up and will often crash and forcefully close all windows, i've never had this happen with any other firefox add on just this one so for those two reasons this add on is kinda unusable due to how buggy it is and how annoying those bugs are due to how often they happen, over all the add on is fine would actually be really good if the issues were fixed but pretty much everything if not everything this add on does can be found in other more stable add ons that don't randomly brake youtube or firefox
  • by SmokeySalmon, 5 days ago
  • by foundinwords, 17 days ago
    Basically unusable, as it slowed my browser nearly to a halt, especially when on Youtube.
  • by Axo, 17 days ago
    doesn't work on mobile .-.
  • by ismetsoner, 18 days ago
  • by Fen1ma, 21 days ago
  • by Rust, a month ago
  • by InspectorGameBoy, a month ago
    Changing settings are slow.
  • by Firefox user 13651036, a month ago
  • by Monkey Do, a month ago
    On MOBILE doesn't work at all. No matter which of the options I toogled on or off. Firefox v152.
  • by AgustinBrito, a month ago
    Amazing
  • by Firefox user 13514584, a month ago
  • by mdfhnPQMOSnhvk, a month ago
  • by dircules, a month ago
    Only working Stop-YouTube-Autoplay addon in July 2026.
  • by Firefox user 19655357, 2 months ago
    tnx
  • by Firefox user 20007710, 2 months ago
    Generally amazing and great features. But I have 2 features I'd like to ask for. 1 being a separate grid size options for shorts and for the side bar on video player. While I'm not doom scrolling shorts, I'm sub'd to a few channels that put out great quality shorts that'd I'd like to view. Shorts are just really large compared to normal thumbnails. It's a balancing issue choosing between smaller thumbnails vs huge shorts. 2, Sidebar thumbnails feel huge after installing this extension. If you could include an option to reduce thumbnail size and increase video title space, that'd be great. But 2 is honestly just personal preference. I'm using Zen Browser if that makes any difference.
  • by Firefox user 14604465, 2 months ago
  • by VinceFiremod1, 2 months ago
    good, some buttons are outdated but i love it
  • by Firefox user 20003153, 2 months ago
  • by tokumei, 2 months ago
    While watching videos on YouTube, playback occasionally stops on its own. I am aware that the website has a feature that stops playback after 15 minutes of inactivity, but this seems to be a different issue.

    In addition, videos sometimes stop playing when I switch to another browser tab. In those cases, playback resumes as soon as I return to the YouTube tab. The behavior is somewhat similar to the YouTube mobile app, where playback may stop when the screen or app is switched.

    Both issues tend to occur near the beginning of a video rather than throughout the entire playback session.

    I did not experience these problems while the add-on was disabled, so I suspect there may be some compatibility issue between the add-on and a web service or browser feature.
  • by felda9000, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 13122458, 2 months ago
  • by THX1138, 2 months ago
    Absolutes MUST-HAVE. Theme-Farben werden wieder angezeigt. Leider im Kanal noch weiße Stellen! Trotzdem: Vielen Dank!
  • by Ayamerin, 2 months ago
  • by carrot, 2 months ago
    really enjoy this addon as youtube is often very frustrating for me to use without it. though, the theme setting seems to be a bit buggy for me, and often doesnt use the secondary color and text color at all, and just uses default. other than this, very useful and i'd recommend :)