Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience with Iridium
Iridium for YouTube Extension
Enjoy a more personalized experience on YouTube with Iridium, an extension packed with multiple features that allows you to tailor the website look, feel, and behavior tuned to your taste, such as controlling nuisances by managing ads, blocking channels, and disabling shorts, automate tedious tasks by enforcing your preferred video quality and speed of choice, as well as disable autoplay, 60fps, and loudness normalization, enhance navigation by going to your subscriptions when clicking on the YouTube logo and automatically go to a default tab when clicking on a channel name, and so much more.
The extension also offers an option to show on Youtube pages an Iridium button that opens the extension settings as a convenience so you don't have another extension button on your browser toolbar all the time.
With Iridium you have access to a vast number of features, all of which are listed below.
Features:
- Show extension button on Youtube pages
- Sync the extension settings
- Export, import, and reset extension settings
- Manage how you want your ads to be displayed on the home page, video page, and search page
- Manage video ads, and whether or not to show for subscribed channels
- Show full titles in video thumbnails
- Control the extension and Youtube dark/light theme
- Redirect to the subscriptions page when clicking on the Youtube logo
- Disable channel trailer autoplay
- Select a default channel tab to go to when clicking on a channel name
- Disable shorts on home, subscription, search pages, and video page suggestions
- Video focus allows the content around the player to dim
- Show creator merch below the video details
- Show linked video count next to the subscriber count in the video page
- Control ambient mode setting
- Super theater (player fills the entire screen in theater mode)
- Control super theater scroll bar visibility
- Reverse playlist option (show a button on video playlists that allows the current playlist to be reversed)
- Set a default video quality
- Set a default playback speed
- Always visible (video stays always visible when scrolling the page)
- Disable HFR/60fps (Youtube limits the max quality to 720p)
- Disable video autoplay
- Disable loudness normalization
- Change the video volume during playback using the mouse wheel
- Hold shift to change the video volume using the mouse wheel
- Choose how much the volume should increase when using the mouse wheel
- Disable video info cards
- Disable video annotations
- Hide the video endscreen and only show when the mouse cursor is hover
- Show player tools below the player to control autoplay, toggle video focus, take a video screenshot, and open the video thumbnail
- Show video monetization info below the player with ad count and sponsored indication
- Add channels to the blacklist to stop showing its videos on the website (does not affect vertical short thumbnails due to YouTube limitation)
- Show a Block Channel button on each video thumbnail context menu to quickly add that channel to the blacklist
- Add channels individually, import, export, or delete them from the list
If you found any issues please report them in the official repository for better support: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium
Visit the release tracker for detailed changelogs: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/releases
This extension does not collect, distribute, or process any form of data from the user, any data used is locally restricted to the extension functionality.
Source Manifest.json
How to download and manually install Iridium for YouTube extension for Chrome
Looking for a way to install Iridium for YouTube extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.
However, you may need to install Iridium for YouTube extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Iridium for YouTube extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.
Method 1: Download Iridium for YouTube extension and manually install through Drag &Drop
If you ever need to manually install a Iridium for YouTube extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.
Step 1: Download the Iridium for YouTube Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.
Look for the Iridium for YouTube extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Iridium for YouTube extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Iridium for YouTube extension that contains all the data.
Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files
Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.
Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page
Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.
Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension
Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Iridium for YouTube extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.
Step 5: Complete the Installation
Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.
Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.
Method 2: Download Iridium for YouTube extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode
This is another method to install Iridium for YouTube extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.
Step 1: Download the Iridium for YouTube extension file
Select and download the Iridium for YouTube extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.
Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents
Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Iridium for YouTube extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Iridium for YouTube extension running.
Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page
In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.
Step 4: Enable Developer Mode
After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.
Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension
Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."
Step 6: Select the Extension Folder
Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Iridium for YouTube extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.
Step 7: Confirm and Install
After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.
Conclusion
Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Iridium for YouTube extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.
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