Oh thank GOD an extension like this was written! Thank you so much, there's so many little tweaks here and there I wish I could make when looking through my YT searches and this is like a gold mine of them.. gonna spread the word on this one

BTW, hiding the shorts panel is working for me (tested it right now) on Firefox Windows
I mainly downloaded this so I can stop seeing videos that I already saw before in the search results which is super useful to me