Reviews for Control Panel for YouTube
Control Panel for YouTube by Jonny Buchanan
Review by SomersetUpNorth
Rated 4 out of 5
by SomersetUpNorth, 10 months agoIn 2025, this add-on is an absolute must-have. YouTube has made a series of frustrating and questionable changes in recent years, many of which have negatively impacted the user experience. This tool goes a long way in helping to restore some sanity and usability to the platform.
Whether it's undoing design choices that don’t benefit viewers, or reintroducing elements that users actually found helpful, this add-on feels like a breath of fresh air. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and works exactly as described. If you’re tired of fighting with a platform that seems to ignore its community’s feedback, this is well worth installing.
One small suggestion for a future update: please consider adding the ability to disable the "important" notifications and bring back chronological ones instead. Many of us just want to see updates in the order they happen, without the algorithm deciding what’s important on our behalf.
Overall, this add-on does an excellent job of putting some control back in the hands of users. Highly recommended!
Whether it's undoing design choices that don’t benefit viewers, or reintroducing elements that users actually found helpful, this add-on feels like a breath of fresh air. It’s lightweight, easy to use, and works exactly as described. If you’re tired of fighting with a platform that seems to ignore its community’s feedback, this is well worth installing.
One small suggestion for a future update: please consider adding the ability to disable the "important" notifications and bring back chronological ones instead. Many of us just want to see updates in the order they happen, without the algorithm deciding what’s important on our behalf.
Overall, this add-on does an excellent job of putting some control back in the hands of users. Highly recommended!
138 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18862759, 6 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DavidOrlandBrown, 10 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by the butterfly effect, 14 days agoSo this did wonders to youtube but it would be cool to make ui changes for the search bar (making it the old squarer design) and for the likes, share button, etc.
- Rated 1 out of 5by mobile_user, 19 days agoThis worked great on mobile up until a few weeks ago. Now posts and mixes are flooding my home page. Please fix!
- Rated 5 out of 5by elsenfox, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13359419, 22 days agoAstoundingly good extension. It fixes all of the important things that stupid YouTube has stupidly broken with their stupid stupidity.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Adam Boulton, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kat, 24 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13667925, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Davide, a month agoWould be great if you can add the default *speed* the video starts playing with (like 0.85 or 1.15 etc.)
Great extension, thank you <3 - Rated 5 out of 5by afe4aw4tq3t3q654, a month agoSo good!
Huge amount of control over features.
I used to use unhook which was also really good, but youtube added a section called "more videos" when you scroll up in fullscreen, and I got distracted by that a lot recently. This extension blocks it and is updated frequently, while unhook did not and hasn't been updated since 2024.
Thank you for making this and maintaining this extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by archixe, a month agoWorks better than alternatives for hiding suggestions especially end-cards. It seems youtube is phasing out list view on desktop, would be fantastic if that's an option to be added.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19725890, a month agoamazing but please, please please please add the option to get the sub feed as a list for the firefox version as well !!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15742641, a month agoWas working great but The Upload By Date function is not working correctly anymore as of today.
Developer response
posted a month agoWe removed this feature because YouTube has now killed this feature in the API which is why it no longer works, Firefox Add-ons is multiple (currently 6) versions behind because they're taking so long to approve new versions - Rated 5 out of 5by lonecast88, a month agoPlease help bring back the list view from this diabolical grid format!! TvT
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14944780, 3 months agoThis add-on is such a QoL boost! Thank you for designing and maintaining this!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Crinoid, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16192357, 3 months agoUne extension qui fait EXACTEMENT ce qu'elle promet. Vivement conseillée +++
- Rated 5 out of 5by idolking, 3 months agoEnhancer for YouTubeの代替でこのアドオンにたどり着きました。似たようなアドオンはいくつもありますが、どれも英語で項目も多くすごくわかりづらい。ここのアドオンも項目は多いですが、やはり日本語だとだいぶ理解しやすいので有り難いです。
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gravitypopsicle, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19635484, 3 months agoBest extension for YT! Please add function disable thumbnails and title in capital letters