'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube

4.3 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 16366541

looking to replace Enhancer for YouTube [for Cowardice in the Face of google]... but this extension refuses to export its own settings. asks for permission to access storage [granted] & then never proceeds to local FS folder choice & never exports. importing settings seems to work. wtf... excessively compartmented settings UI, requiring totuous traversal of modal sub-windows.

Developer response

posted 2 years ago

hey, how did you import when you couldn't export? Most people wont remember the order of 100 features in one list. However you arent bound to it as there is search. I'm sorry frustration isn't impossible and partly inevitable even for this product deserving 5 stars, until a few more of our 570 000 users help us.

840 reviews

Rated 3 out of 5
by AFMZL, 6 hours ago
Im not sure how it is on desktop but it is really buggy on mobile firefox. Whenever you try to look into someone's channel and move to other taps such as the channel's home/videos, it just freezes. It doesn't let your reload nor get out of the page via return button. Also even when it works when you try to click the channel's other shorts it freezes. I tried turning on & off my phone but it still does it. Had to disable the addon.
Developer response
posted 2 hours ago
hi! doesnt depend browser or OS much but m.youtube is a different website so only player features work but not layout. Please file a bug report at https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues looking for errors logged or adding more detail. Thanks

(This type or project should rather be rated for how it does the things it is meant to do not yet m.youtube or what youtube changes today, etc.)
Rated 4 out of 5
by Virtpunk, 4 days ago
Everything is fine, but the video speed does not work in built-in frames, for example, on Nexus
Developer response
posted 4 days ago
hi, why would it be good there? Generally runs on youtube and youtube's embedded players. Next we can add any video too.
Rated 5 out of 5
by Angius, 5 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 19709689, 5 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Mebe, 5 days ago
This extension imho is required for YT. No more shorts, no more videos you've already watched, block AI slop channels easily. Props to the devs... (slow clap).
Rated 5 out of 5
by URP, 7 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 19622612, 8 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by BillKoochooloo, 9 days ago
Rated 1 out of 5
by Marc, 11 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by 3ubaidUrRe7man, 12 days ago
This should be built-in with as a default addon, like ublock origin.
Rated 5 out of 5
by blxxdyval, 15 days ago
Rated 1 out of 5
by ShadowEri, 15 days ago
Works fine for the most part, but completely removes the recorded live chat for ALL videos with no options to turn it back on.
Developer response
posted 10 days ago
The extension does nothing by default. Please check again and toggle your features one by one.
Rated 2 out of 5
by LS, 15 days ago
Pretty outdated by 2026 (eg, Shorts still visible despite trying to hide them, Join buttons hide Improve YouTube options, generally pretty bloated with redundant optionality better covered by other apps or by YT updates enabling such options, etc.)
Developer response
posted 10 days ago
many volunteers already updates this in 2026 alone.
Feel free to rate our 200 features by relevance.
Rated 5 out of 5
by DaiterGd, 19 days ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Roman, 23 days ago
Like some users after installing this extension the fan was overworked with noises. HOWEVER, on closer inspection the issue was likely caused by having the in extension adblocking feature turned on while another adblocker (e.g. uBO or Adguard) was already in use. Simply put, when it comes to - Youtube - adblocker, use either the one within this extension or uBO/AdGuard/Ghostery etc. but never both or more.
Rated 5 out of 5
by glitch0id, a month ago
I wanted the comment section on the right side of the page next to the video and was able to get this done using this extension. Absolute slam dunk.
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 19661049, a month ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Shidoshi Gizmo, a month ago
Rated 1 out of 5
by Raeseti, a month ago
Great to begin with, but if you start going through your subscriptions it will bog down and break. And it turns out that the developer doesn't understand that not everyone who installs the extension is not their personal bug report.
Rated 1 out of 5
by DisplayName, a month ago
Add on makes youtube unusably laggy.

And yes developer this is what reviews are for. They're for leaving information for others about the experience of using the app. "Makes the website it's for unusably slow" is useful information for other users. This isn't a technical or bug support request. It's a review of the functionality of the app.
Developer response
posted a month ago
Reviews tend to display herd behavior, reviews tend to display herd behavior, while the product is complex and hard to judge. The amount of daily uninstalls is low. This project was updated by over 200 volunteers. There might be a mystery bug only affecting 0.1% of users or 1% of Firefox version users - worth discovering, but depending on you writing a bug report..

I meant Mozilla has rules generally allowing to flag / remove this.
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 16192357, a month ago
Too bad, the options are very relevant, but this extension makes YT unusable: depending on the chosen options, the YT window freezes. Calculation, settings, or others, we don't know what's happening. I don't quite understand the number of positive reviews, as I don't have such an exotic setup (FF 146.0.1 + YT Anti-Translate + Privacy Badger + Ublock Origin + Emoji CheatSet on W11x64).
Developer response
posted a month ago
no. (reviews are not for this). If there is aynthing, please join the bug report discussion/s https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22z%20FireFox%22
thanks
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 16501371, a month ago
This extension works but seems to make the site laggy
Rated 5 out of 5
by MA AL ISLAMIYAH UTERAN, 2 months ago
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13605519, 2 months ago
Great replacement for the defunct "Enhancer for YouTube" extension
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 13581270, 2 months ago