Better YouTube Shorts
by Young Shung
Better YouTube Shorts
by Young Shung
Quick Look
Enhance your YouTube Shorts experience with advanced playback controls, including a progress bar, adjustable speeds, and custom keyboard shortcuts.
AI Overview
Who is this for?
Users who want more granular control over their YouTube Shorts viewing experience.
Key Features
- → Full playback controls (progress bar, seeking, speed adjustment)
- → Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- → Auto-skip functionality
- → Volume control and mute
- → Open-source with active community suggestions
Reviews Analysis
Overall Sentiment
MixedWhile users appreciate the added controls for YouTube Shorts, many reviews mention the extension is unmaintained and suffering from bugs.
Note: AI analysis focuses on the substance and recency of reviews, which may differ from the overall store rating.
What Users Love
- ✓ Adds much-needed playback controls like progress bar and speed adjustment.
- ✓ Highly customizable with keyboard shortcuts and extra features.
- ✓ Open-source nature is a plus for some users.
Points to Consider
- × Extension is currently unmaintained and may contain bugs.
- × Potential for issues due to lack of active development.
Official Description
From the Developer
Take back the controls on YouTube Shorts with playback, volume, progress bar and more!
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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Key Info
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Rating:
4.2/5.0
(207 ratings)
- Users:30,000
- Version:3.7.2
- Updated:Nov 11, 2024
- Developer:Visit Website →
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