Cast YouTube in Browser
Control YouTube in your browser from your smartphone or tablet. Enables the YouTube for TV interface in your browser, which is normally blocked on desktop. YouTube TV supports casting from a mobile device.
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3.72
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Works well for casting music videos from a phone to a PC with a sound system.
- Straightforward setup process.
- Performs the function of making YouTube think it's a TV device.
Cons
- Requires using the TV version of the site, which can be inconvenient.
- Issues with video quality, particularly limiting to 720p for 60fps videos.
- Requires the tab to be active, or else playback pauses.
- Redirection issues to the standard YouTube site without proper functionality.
Most mentioned
- Problems with video quality limitations.
- The need to use the TV version of the YouTube site.
- Playback pauses when the tab is not active.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-27 | Bassquake | | This works pretty well. Some caveats like having to use the tv version of the site in the browser which is understandable due to enabling cast options (you could just have it in a separate tab/window out of the way anyway), the other is that the cast name is Xbox 360, I'm assuming its spoofing the header in your browser so YouTube site thinks it is one. Would be nice to be able to change that but probably not possible. All in all, this is useful for those that have a pc connected to a nice sound system and the tv is off and you can now cast music videos all from your phone. Nice job. Edit: Just noticed you have to have the tab active or it just pauses. Is it possible to have it continue working while looking at other tabs? Edit 2: A workaround for the annoying pausing for now is to have the youtube.tv tab in a new window instead and set this in about:config to false: media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground |
| 2024-10-10 | Firefox user 12667782 | | Works as descibed, been using it for 3 days now. Pretty straightforward to set up really, so I'm quite happy with it. People complaining about functionality this extension never claimed to support should read the desciption a bit more extensively. TY M.K. |
| 2024-09-04 | Firefox user 15072707 | | thought by this add-on an android phone device can control a TV set which latter based on android as well. what is the point of controlling YT on a computer by your phone? you have mouse and keyboard anyway ... thank you Mark for your detailed response. so in case of your particular case a(n) (old) TV set is involved indeed. plus you write "... Enables the YouTube for TV interface in your browser .." which can be understood that way that you can control your TV set directly from the browser. i lost couple of hours, so 3-star remains |
| 2024-08-06 | Jojo | | That thing tells me to find an icon that does not exist. Lost 10 minutes searching everywhere for the legendary icon. |
| 2024-05-30 | Jack Benbow | | You need youtube TV 😞 |
| 2024-04-26 | GetBroccli | | Works. Probably shouldn't need to be an add-on, but hey, some people like it I guess. Please list your user-agent. |
| 2024-04-20 | Cryen | | Unfortunetelly every time I try to use it I get: "You are being directed to youtube.com" "For a better experience, check your device’s app store for the official YouTube app." And I get forcefully redirected to a normal site after a couple of seconds. There's no other button / wheel cog to change anything. Any ideas? |
| 2024-01-21 | kadzooks | | I thought this was just a web shortcut to the Youtube TV link, but it's also doing something to make Youtube think this is a TV so it actually works |
| 2024-01-20 | iogangi | | |
| 2024-01-20 | Firefox user 18248813 | | Completely garbage. Does NOT work at all. Waste of time. Removed after 10 min of trying to get it to run,. |
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