Reviews for Control Panel for YouTube
Control Panel for YouTube by Jonny Buchanan
Review by HydeFromT70s
Rated 5 out of 5
by HydeFromT70s, a year agoYouTube started to mess around with something in the code by which it broke the appearance of the home page - instead of 5 thumbnails in a row I had only 3 very large ones, which made me have to scroll the page endlessly. Thanks to this plugin I was able to restore the previous look of the page.
111 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by iap, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18378066, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18275352, 12 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19580027, 12 days agoI only got it for the 'Hide watched videos' feature, and it doesn't work.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoYou might have been affected by a change YouTube had recently made to their thumbnail format. Testing in the latest version, hiding watched videos should work in Home, Subscriptions and Related videos - Rated 5 out of 5by TerrorMango, 13 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, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Benno, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Розалія, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ADKFZ8O, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17889476, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by That One Guy, a month agoIt doesn't work to hide those dogshit members only videos. Which I'd give anything to make those MFer's gone forever.
Developer response
posted 2 days agoIt should work now - YouTube have repeatedly changed how Members only videos appear in the last few weeks - Rated 5 out of 5by Plutonia, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jennie, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Saggie, a month agoIt's a cool extension, essentioal with that new shitty UI. But can I ask for you to do something with "add to playlist" option, so you can, as before this new shitty UI, add one song to multiple playlists without the window being closed after each.
Thanks you so muc, hope you will read this. - Rated 4 out of 5by Simon, a month agothank you for taking the time to make this and share it with the rest of us. doesn't seem to successfully block ads though
- 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 3 out of 5by Garrus-V, a month agoIt rolls back to the previous UI as intended, except for the Like/Dislike/Show Comments/Share buttons that are in the lower-right when the video is paused in Full Screen, controls I couldn't care less about and want blown out the airlock NOW.
Developer response
posted a day agoThere's also now "Hide new full screen controls" option to hide those