Disable Polymer on YouTube

The polymer redesign of YouTube has made the site very slow for Firefox users. This add-on adds the "disable_polymer" option to YouTube URLs in order to revert back to the old classic design.

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manifest.json

{
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "disable-polymer-youtube",
  "version": "1.1resigned1",
  "description": "Disables the use of polymer on YouTube",
  "permissions": [
    "webRequest",
    "webRequestBlocking",
    "*://www.youtube.com/*"
  ],
  "background": {
    "scripts": [
      "background.js"
    ]
  },
  "browser_specific_settings": {
    "gecko": {
      "id": "{38652e1d-3f0a-4b1c-9aca-1175382487c4}"
    }
  }
}