Take back the controls on YouTube Shorts with playback, volume, progress bar and more!

Latest Version

Version
3.7.2
Update
November 10, 2024
Size
106KiB
Developer
Category
Users
30,000+
Rating
4.42932 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
Deutsch
English
Français
Türkçe
Español
Italiano
Português (Brasil)
Português (Portugal)
עברית
فارسی‎
ไทย
‫العربية
日本語
한국어
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Permissions
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Better YouTube Shorts Extension

Notice: This extension is currently unmaintained, expect bugs and issues. If you are interested in maintaining this repository, please create an issue or submit changes via PR in GitHub or contact [email protected].


⏭️ Control your YouTube Shorts just like a normal YouTube video! Features include progress bar, seeking, playback speed, auto skip and more. You can also customize the keybinds to your liking!

List of features:
- Progress bar at the bottom with time and duration
- Seeking 5 seconds backward and forward with arrow keys (adjustable time)
- Mini timestamp and speed above the like button (can be scrolled on!)
- Fullscreen support with F key and double click
- Decrease and increase playback speed with keys U and O
- Click the speed button to revert to normal speed or toggle between different speeds
- Toggle to auto skip short when current one ends
- Control volume with the volume slider or with - and =, mute audio with M
- Customizable keybinds
- 🌐 Supports more than 10 languages!

Extra features:
- Start short from beginning with J
- Go to the next or previous frame of the video
- Set default playback rate when first opening shorts
- Auto skip short with likes below custom threshold (e.g. 500 likes)
- Auto open comment section on each short
- Hide overlay on shorts (title, channel, etc.)
- Go to the next frame or previous frame with . and , while paused
- View counter and upload date above video title

Fully open-source with MIT License: https://github.com/ynshung/better-yt-shorts

If you have any suggestions or feedback, please let us know here: https://github.com/ynshung/better-yt-shorts#issues--suggestion
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Source Manifest.json

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User reviews

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黃柏榮 (ID: 0000000c8f351eaf) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 11/02/2024 超棒的short改善程式 但是沒更新了 改用Video Speed Controller

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N7NobodyCats (ID: 0000001631524f35) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 06/11/2024 extension no longer works, like it works, if you refresh the page, but the volume slider, and skip back and forth with arrow keys dont work, im holding the keys, and tapping them, volume wont go up or down and i cant scrub back and forth with the keys i have to do it manually with the mouse. EDIT: idk if the shorts are being broken from this extension or something else, but whenever i try to use arrow keys to go to the next short, it gets stuck, and then next short plays audio, but the picture is stuck on the previous short i was watching, and this has been happening more and more frequently to the point it happens to about 1 in 4-5 videos. also, arrow keys sometimes dont even work, heck even the manual arrows added by youtube on the side dont work. its like the extension refuses to accept the arrow keys and breaks the manual buttons youtube already provides.

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Thaddeus Warner (ID: 00000077df376939) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/15/2024 Thanks for this. Works great. EDIT 04/14/24: Progress bar no longer appears. Hopefully a fix is on the way. Arrow keys still work to seek.

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Hayden (ID: 0000000a92066a0c) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/12/2023 Just what I needed. For some reason youtube is stupid enough to add the progress bar and skipping forward and back to mobile but not pc.

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Joe Hrivnak (ID: 000000f362e542fc) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/01/2023 Fantastic... why didn't Google do this?