Tweaks for YouTube by InzkDev

Browser extension for YouTube (including embedded videos), YouTube Music, and Google Drive videos

Fast forward, rewind, navigate chapters, control volume, speed, and more (35+ actions) with an unlimited number of custom mouse and keyboard shortcuts. Use global keyboard shortcuts to control active video from any app.

Turn on the "Auto Gain" feature to balance sound levels across different videos by making quieter videos louder. One of the audio channels is quieter or missing? Just turn on the "Mono Mix". Use the "High Pass Filter" to make muddy audio with too much bass clearer. If the volume is still too low, there is a "Boost Volume" feature.

Make player controls always visible, hidden, visible only on mouse hover, or show only a minimalist progress bar. Auto-hide them in less than the default 3 seconds. Customize volume and time display, and base time on current playback rate.

Over 70 features available!

Full features list: https://inzk.dev/tweaks-for-youtube/features

Most features (except mouse control and a few others) and all keyboard shortcuts are off by default, so explore the options and enable the ones you need!

Permissions

Storage - for storing extension settings

Site Access
- www.youtube.com
- music.youtube.com
- www.youtube-nocookie.com - for embedded videos in privacy-enhanced mode
- youtube.googleapis.com - for Google Drive videos

Privacy Policy

This extension does not collect personal data from users, and it does not send any user data to a remote server. The only data it collects are extension settings, and this is stored locally on your PC.

This is an independent project and has no relationship to YouTube™ or Google LLC.

Features: YouTube

Mouse Control
- interact with the video player, shorts player, or miniplayer using any mouse button or wheel
- 35+ actions available, such as:
- seek (units available: second, frame, chapter, %)
- adjust and set volume, toggle mute
- adjust and set playback rate (from 0.1x to 16x)

Keyboard Control
- global keyboard shortcuts: next / previous chapter, next / previous video, seek forward / backward, toggle play, increase / decrease volume, toggle mute, increase / decrease playback rate, set playback rate to normal, enter picture-in-picture, toggle loop, increase / decrease video quality
- unlimited number of custom local keyboard shortcuts

Video Chapters Navigation
- use the middle, right mouse button, or double click anywhere on the chapter container on the progress bar, and the chapter will start playing from the beginning
- use mouse and keyboard shortcuts to navigate to the previous/next chapter

Combine Replay Chapter and Navigate to Previous Chapter
- replay the current chapter if the current playing time of the chapter is above 3 seconds, otherwise navigate to the previous chapter

Auto-Show Chapters List
- automatically show the chapters list in the sidebar if chapters are available

Audio - Auto Gain
- balance sound levels across different videos by making quieter videos louder
- gain is automatically adjusted for every video depending on its loudness
- use "Auto Gain - Threshold" to set the level below which Auto Gain starts working

Audio - Mono Mix
- set audio output to mono
- select left, right, or both channels as the source
- useful for videos with poor stereo image - when one of the audio channels is missing, quieter, or louder

Audio - High Pass Filter
- pass frequencies above the cutoff frequency
- useful for the muddy audio with too much bass

Audio - Boost Volume
- boost volume up to +12dB

Audio - Pan
- pan audio left or right with keyboard shortcuts

Playlist Duration
- show playlist duration on "/playlist" and "/watch" pages

Back To Comment
- use this command after clicking on a timestamp in the comment section to scroll down to that comment

Instant Fullscreen
- enter the fullscreen mode without delay, even with many playlist items, related videos, and comments loaded
- exit the fullscreen mode much faster
- option for smooth transition (available in Chromium browsers)

Convert Channel Name To Link (available in Chromium browsers)
- in playlist, queue, and related videos click on the channel name to navigate to the channel page

Show Full-Size Thumbnails And Avatars
- use mouse or keyboard shortcuts to show the full-size thumbnail of the current video
- Ctrl + Click on any thumbnail or avatar image to show the full-size version

Auto-Click "Skip Ads" Button
- automatically click the button when it shows up

Mute Ads
- automatically mute video when ads start playing
- unmute video afterward unless it was muted before ads

Auto-Skip Ads
- automatically skip any kind of ad after the time delay

Manually Skip Ads
- skip any ad at any time with a mouse or keyboard shortcut (add "Seek to" action, set unit to "%" and value to "100")

Player Controls
- show Player Controls in 5 different modes:
- 1 - Default - default YouTube Player Controls
- 2 - Progress Bar - progress bar without other controls
- 3 - Default + Progress Bar - show Progress Bar when Default Controls are hidden
- 4 - Persistent Progress Bar - always visible Progress Bar
- 5 - Persistent Default - always visible Default Controls

Player Controls - Progress Bar
- show only the progress bar with adjustable opacity and position

Player Controls - Base Time On Current Playback Rate

Player Controls - Replace Mute Button With Volume Level
- show volume level (e.g., 50%) instead of the mute/unmute button in the player
- you can still click on it to mute/unmute

Player Controls - Enable Custom Time Display In Player
- replace the default time display (current time / duration) with a custom one based on a template
- available keywords: %current_time, %pr_current_time, %duration, %pr_duration, %playback_rate, %remaining_time, %pr_remaining_time
- prefix "pr_" means those values are based on the current playback rate

Auto-Hide Player Controls
- auto-hide player controls in less than default 3 seconds

Hide Player Controls
- don't show player controls on any interaction
- options to hide player controls when video is playing and/or when video is paused
- option to show player controls when hovering directly over them

Sticky Player
- keep the smaller version of the player always visible while scrolling
- options to not activate the sticky player when the video has ended or while it's paused
- compact and wide variations
- options to set position and offset

Video Dimmer
- decrease the video brightness (0 - 100%)

Shorts Player Overlay
- hide the top overlay (play/pause and volume controls)
- hide the bottom overlay (subscribe button and channel info)
- make overlays visible only on mouse hover

Shorts In Normal Player
- shorts will seamlessly open in the normal video player
- the shorts tab is still fully functional

Expanded Cinema (Theater) Mode
- expand the player to the full window in cinema mode
- options to hide header and scrollbar (as in fullscreen)

Fixed Sidebar
- in the Default view the sidebar has a fixed position and its own scrollbar

Subtitles - On/Off
- turn subtitles automatically on/off on every new video

Subtitles - Disable Subtitles
- permanently hide subtitles
- helpful if subtitles randomly show up in private/incognito mode

Subtitles - Position
- set the subtitles to a fixed custom position
- align text to the center

Open Search Results In New Tab (with Ctrl/Shift + Enter combinations)
- Enter - open in current tab
- Ctrl+Enter - open in new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Enter - open in new active tab
- Shift+Enter - open in new window

Navigate search results
- navigate through items on "/results" and channel "/search" pages
- use ArrowUp and ArrowDown keys
- on the channel "/search" page, press the Tab key after the search

Skip Video Intro/Outro
- start/stop playing the new video from/at a specific time or chapter to avoid watching repetitive intros/outros
- can be set for individual channels or all videos

Up Next Video In 0 Seconds
- immediately play the next video

Disable Auto Pause
- disable the "Video paused. Continue watching?" feature

Disable Autoplay Next Video In Playlist
- don't automatically play the next video in the playlist
- available only in playlists created by users

Pause Previous Video
- pause the previous video when another one starts playing

Video Snapshot
- capture the video frame at the current time and resolution, and save it as JPG, PNG, or WebP file
- copy captured frame to clipboard (available in Chromium browsers)
- optionally include subtitles

Video Download Link
- create a video download URL from the template
- copy URL to the clipboard - useful if you're downloading videos with command-line programs like youtube-dl
- open URL in a new tab - useful if you're downloading videos with browser tools

Copy Video URL / Copy Video URL At Current Time
- available domain formats - Short (youtu.be/...), Long (www.youtube.com/...)
- available time formats - Default (t=1000), HMS (t=16m40s)
- option to remove playlist from URL

Comments - Focus input / Paste timestamp
- focus the comment input if it isn't focused
- otherwise, paste a timestamp of the current video time at the cursor position
- pasting timestamp also works in replies
- option to reduce timestamp by 1, 2, or 3 seconds

Comments - Sort By
- option to always sort comments by "Newest first" or "Top comments"

Embed Mode
- watch the video in YouTube Embedded Player
- start Embed Mode in the current tab or popup window

Picture-In-Picture (available in Chromium browsers)
- enter and exit picture-in-picture mode
- use mouse, keyboard, or global keyboard shortcut

Inline Playback
- enable or disable the Inline Playback feature (play videos when you hover over them on the Home screen)

Chat Visibility
- show chat replay, auto-hide live chat, or disable the chat section

Channel Page Banner
- hide the banner or show a shorter version

Content Filters
- hide shorts, upcoming, live, and mix video types on various pages

Clean Player
- remove annotations, ad-overlay, paid content overlay, suggested action badge, cards, channel watermark, end screen, top buttons and video title, progress bar heatmap, cinematics, etc.

Clean Page
- remove reminders, hints, surveys, page elements, some ads, etc.
- this feature doesn't block video ads, and some ads still might be visible (if you don't want to see any ads use the "uBlock Origin" extension)

Hide Comments
- hide the comments section

Hide Sidebar
- hide the sidebar section

Hide Related Videos
- hide related videos in the sidebar section
- this also hides the sidebar if there is no chat, chapters, playlist, or transcript

Hide All Action Indicator Animations
- hide icons and animations that show up when you change volume, playback rate, etc.

Seek Action Info
- on seeking forward / backward, show: current time, current time / duration, remaining time, or none
- works on custom shortcuts only

Show Video Playback Info
- show the overlay containing current chapter name, current time / duration, remaining time, volume, and/or playback rate
- adjustable font size and opacity

Back To Top Button
- scroll to the top of the page
- select button color and position

Focus Search Box
- use a hotkey to focus the Search Box
- automatically paste the selected text into the Search Box

Instant Play / Pause
- play or pause the video instantly on the mouse button pressed

Toggle Fullscreen with Middle Mouse Button
- trigger the fullscreen mode with the middle mouse button instead of double click

Thin Scrollbar (available in Firefox)
- style the main page scrollbar

Nontransparent Player Background
- player and player container elements will have a black background color
- affects mostly shorts in normal player and videos in 4:3 format

Transparent Buttons And Description Section
- remove the background from buttons below the player (Like, Dislike, Share, etc.) and from the description section on /watch page
- minimum requirements: Chrome 105 or Firefox 103 (with layout.css.has-selector.enabled flag)

Auto-Expand Video Description

Disable Channel Trailer Autoplay

Initial Active Channel Page Tab
- when opening the channel page, navigate directly to the videos, playlists, or about tab

Video View - Start New Video In
- Default - the default behavior
- Default view - always start the new video in the Default view
- Cinema mode - always start the new video in Cinema mode

Preferred Video Resolution
- automatically set the resolution on every new video
- set different resolutions when the video is in fullscreen mode, cinema mode, on embedded videos, and on background videos

Autoplay Switch - Turn Off
- controls the Autoplay switch (the first button in the bottom right corner of the video player)
- it will check the switch when the new video starts and turn it off

Autoplay Next Short
- automatically play the next short video when one ends

Initial Fullscreen
- start playing the new video in fullscreen mode

Initial Volume
- automatically set the volume on every new video or session

Initial Playback rate
- automatically set playback rate on every new video

Loop Normal Videos
- automatically turn on loop (auto-repeat) on current and every new normal video

Loop Shorts
- automatically turn on/off loop (auto-repeat) on current and every new short

Custom CSS And JS
- add custom styles and scripts

Features: YouTube Music

- Mouse Control
- Keyboard Control
- Audio Mono Mix
- Audio High Pass Filter
- Audio Pan
- Video Snapshot
- Video Download Link
- Initial Volume
- Picture-In-Picture
- Auto-Skip Ads
- Auto-Click "Skip Ads" Button
- Custom CSS And JS

Features: Google Drive Videos

- Mouse Control
- Keyboard Control
- Player Controls
- Auto-Hide Player Controls
- Hide Player Controls
- Video Dimmer
- Instant Play / Pause
- Toggle Fullscreen with Middle Mouse Button
- Preferred Video Resolution
- Initial Volume
- Initial Playback Rate
- Loop Normal Videos
- Seek Action Info
- Picture-In-Picture
- Show Video Playback Info
- Custom CSS And JS