Reviews for Control Panel for YouTube
Control Panel for YouTube by Jonny Buchanan
94 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15379576, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shajirr, 4 days agoExtremely useful addon.
Lots of features, makes the experience of using Youtube way better, to counter the fact that Google tries to make it worse and worse each year. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19602470, 8 days agoI'm not one to write reviews often but I feel the need to for this add-on. Firstly, my biggest gripe recently is YouTube's UI "improvements".
This add-on lets me clean up the home page's sidebar to get You(history, playlists, etc) back where it used to be. I then switched Subscriptions to be on a link below the Home link, easing that burden so I'm not hitting a subscription instead of history like I have been lately. Also was able to make the videos and thumbnails squares again, which I love.
I just started playing with the add-on, so I might not have seen it or it might not be possible to do, but the only thing I wish this included so far is to remove the drop-down menu next to watched videos in History and bring back the X that was next to them for the longest time.
Aside from that little thing, I absolutely love this add-on, and the developer genuinely has my highest respect for this. So thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by Defizmo, 11 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by iap, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18378066, 12 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18275352, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TerrorMango, 22 days agoMuch neeeded addon, lets me continue to use the scroll wheel for volume controls provided by Enhancer for YT. Why does Google always have to change the YT UI?
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tritan, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benno, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Розалія, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ADKFZ8O, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17889476, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Plutonia, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jennie, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by petethecanuck, a month agoWorks great, especially after YT shit the bed with it's latest UI update. Need to refresh page (as of today) for it to work though. Still THE best extension for Firefox. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Spookaburra, a month agoIt ACTUALLY reverts the ugly new video UI back to the way it used to be. That is literally all I needed this for. Good GOSH, I'm getting so sick of having to install a new extension every time YouTube does something...
That being said, I'm also very grateful it's an option available to me, or I probably wouldn't even be on the internet at all any more. Thank you, extension developers, your work is appreciated.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that, for some reason, I have to refresh the video page (sometimes more than once) to get the old UI to apply. Not sure why, but it's worth it, and still better than my previous method of "embed the video into a Tumblr post and just watch it in the 'new post' creator".
EDIT 2.0: It seems like the UI "sticks" when you don't open a new page. Like, say, you have to refresh the page a few times, and finally the extension kicks in, and fixes the UI. Opening a video in a new tab makes the new UI come back, and you have to refresh again, and it's annoying. But if you're in, for example, a playlist, you get to the next video, and then the next, and you're five videos in and hey! You haven't had any trouble with the UI reverting. Nice!
TL;DR: Refresh the page a few times to make the new UI go away, then stay on that page by using a playlist (copy+pasting URLs into the tab doesn't seem to work). I use my Watch Later, because I've already used it as long as I can remember, and it's convenient to just hit the little clock icon and have everything ready to go. - Rated 5 out of 5by Jaluvshuskies, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by clem_01, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19472089, 3 months agoadds a ton of handy toggles, both to remove annoying youtube features, add handy new ones, and in general customize your experience
the addons UI is very concise and makes figuring out all the features easy. Every other addon Dev should take notes.
a big fan of how everything is turn on/off so you can customize what you want to use.
(have not been using the inbuilt adblocker since i use ublock, so i cant rate it)