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Better YouTube Shorts
Playback controls (with J and L) and timestamp on YouTube Shorts.
What is Better YouTube Shorts?
"Better YouTube Shorts" is a Firefox add-on designed to enhance your viewing of YouTube Shorts by adding video playback control, such as seeking, playback speed adjustments, and a progress bar. It also includes customizable keybinds, support for various languages, and extra features to improve overall user interaction with YouTube Shorts. Open-source and community-driven, this add-on is perfect for users seeking a more feature-rich and controllable short video experience on YouTube.
Stats
By: Young Shung
Rating: 4.74
(76)
Creation date: 2022-06-05
Weekly download count: 68
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- storage
Size: 112.58K
Email: me*****@ynshung.com
URLs: Website
Stats date:
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# 869 ▼ 4
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Summary
⏭️ 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:
User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
- Toggle to auto skip short when current one ends
- Space to play/pause feature
- Arrow keys for forward/rewind feature
Cons
- Progress bar not working for some users
- Incompatibility with uBlock and other extensions
- Addon not functioning properly at times
Most mentioned
- Progress bar not working
- Addon not functioning properly
- Toggle to auto skip short when current one ends
Recent reviews
Working as intended so far
by Gustanoid, 2024-06-13
Usually switches to next short, sometimes don't. And when next is an ad, it switches the audio but keeps the paused end of previous short. I have uBlock too, maybe they don't work together.
by Firefox user 14442865, 2024-06-02
by Firefox user 18384601, 2024-04-23
Safety
Risk impact
Better YouTube Shorts may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
Better YouTube Shorts is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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