Reviews for Enhancer for YouTube™
Enhancer for YouTube™ by Max RF
177 reviews
- Rated 2 out of 5by John Doe, 10 hours agoThe update landing page claimed something along the lines of “tons of bug fixes and improvements - too many to list.”
In reality, I don’t see any improvements at all. In fact, it broke features that were working perfectly fine in the previous version.
For starters, embed quality stopped working for me after the update. I’m not sure what else is broken yet, but I’ll update this review as I encounter more issues.
What makes this especially disappointing is that I previously found the extension very impressive. The old version worked flawlessly for me, even after YouTube’s UI changes. Every feature I used continued to work without issues right up until this update.
Given this experience, I’m honestly starting to wonder whether the original author is still maintaining the project, especially considering there’s no proper changelog and the overall experience has clearly regressed.
Anyway, just a heads-up to others. Someone should confirm whether this update actually comes from the original author and possibly decompile the code to check for anything sketchy. I’ll most likely downgrade to the older version and disable auto-updates.Developer response
posted 6 hours agoYou're just out of luck. Maybe try to reinstall it.
And yes, I’m the original author. Don't start spinning fake news or acting like a conspiracy theorist. Mozilla has full access to the source code, you don't need to inspect anything. If you don't trust Mozilla, then don't use Firefox.
For future readers: if you think the previous version works better for you, you can reinstall it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/versions/
Don't forget to turn off automatic updates. - Rated 2 out of 5by uhuhuh123, 18 hours agoDoes not allow me to dismiss update popup without reloading
Developer response
posted 6 hours agoMessages telling you to refresh YouTube tabs are displayed for good reasons, and if you knew more about an extension's lifecycle, and what happens when it gets updated by the browser, you wouldn't waste your time complaining for something that is inevitable. Annoying users is not my goal at all. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 19246723, 6 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Tyko, 6 months agoBroken for several months. Pages load unbelievably slowly, and it is entirely this extension's fault. Multiple times per day I have to completely reload a page to see anything other than the video window; comments, like/dislike, recommended videos, etc; none of it will load, the page is just a flat color. Disabling this extension fixes the problem immediately. *Please* update this, youtube just isn't the same without it.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Nello, 6 months agoY'all really gotta update this. It's been months. Other browsers have been updated, but this one hasn't, and YouTube still looks broken.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Brujahwolf, 8 months agoThis was a much-valued addition, but it seems to have stopped working.
It shows as being switched on, but the controls don't show, none of the settings I had are operative, and the option to configure it seems to have also vanished. - Rated 2 out of 5by Synetech, 8 months agoIt used to be useful, but then it "required" Firefox 121+ for some reason (though manually copying the files to ESR115 works).
Bugs:
• There's a bug in the resolution settings that hides anything above 720p.
• The speed override has a bug where it only works for the first video in a playlist and subsequent videos revert to 1× speed. If I can't force an entire playlist at 2.5×, then this doesn't help. 😕 - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14528670, 8 months agoBroken. This extension triggers yourtube's adblock detection. I can't watch videos with this turned on now.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Prof Head, 8 months agoPlease provide update to Firefox extension also, the extension is only getting update in Chrome. Thanks.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18917901, 10 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15544906, 10 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Helge, 10 months agoIt was a good add-on, however recently it started to break YT shorts (no comments section, Likes etc.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18759000, 10 months agoWorks great on normal videos but entirely breaks yt shorts, cant see any of the like-dislike and comments icon. Please release a patch 🙏
- Rated 2 out of 5by davidguy207, a year agoRandomly breaks. It's fixed in 3.0 but for some reason it's not on firefox.
The extension is good, but sadly not on the 3.0 version, which adds some QOL settings. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18818669, a year agoThe auto play doesn't exactly stop it from playing, it keeps it from playing for about 30 seconds and then launches into the ad or the program. even behind other you tubes already playing.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 12781398, a year agoIts good when it works, but after watching 2-3 vids, the addon stops working until i restart firefox again.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16569101, a year agoPlease update the extension. The chrome version is newer and works with ambient. Firefox does not.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Dark Thoughts, a year agoUnfortunately this addon fails reliably on a daily basis for me. It's noticeable in that Shorts often still show up, but it also sometimes does not load properly (I once even had massive icons in the background below the video) or at all (no icons, no custom colors, etc), or it causes massive CPU hog on open YT tabs which also makes any YT function act on a several second delay (even just pausing / unpausing or going fullscreen). Sometimes it helps to completely re-open a new YT tab and close the old one but that's all just temporary until things go south again shortly after.
- Rated 2 out of 5by SkeletonBow, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15201409, a year agoIt is not working anymore! I cant see the toolbar for a few days now!
Old Review: Its perfect. can you please option to hide buttons and timeline? i don't want to see timeline and options when i pause and seek the video. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13679851, a year agoHa funcionado muy bien durante mucho tiempo, pero desde hace unas semanas apenas funciona en una de cada veinte páginas.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Big_2, a year ago