Reviews for CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout
CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout by lightbeam
94 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18026663, a year ago
Developer response
posted a year agoTheater mode is not supported on layouts before 2014 (this is due to how the page was structured back then). It says this on the config window.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18109546, a year agoThis extension is actually pretty great! I would like to see the late 2008/early 2009 layout sometime later in the future.
- Rated 5 out of 5by MandarinEG, a year agoamazing besides the pause button not showing in the 2015 player
- Rated 5 out of 5by ItzCoinz, a year agoThis brings me back in time, Just get rid of Shopping,Movies and TV, and podcasts since they do not have classic icons
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kat, a year agoDoesn't seem to be working currently for the Summary while watching videos. Summary now disappears
- Rated 3 out of 5by Novacori, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 11848152, a year agogetting questions Marks for views on Live streams but finished videos show ok.. also the sub count can be very dark depending on dark theme.. maybe a option to alter the text color would be a handy option..
- Rated 1 out of 5by Luc, a year agoThere is no option at all. And I took a moment to try to get anything.
I only get a squared video player, but the video itself is still rounded. There are just black pixels added to make the video squared.
Answer: I cannot "set the layout to anything else" because, as I said, I have NO OPTION AT ALL. Nothing to configure the extension.Developer response
posted a year agoYou must have the layout set to "Disabled", where the video player is not supposed to be squared (the black pixels around the player is actually a bug, the whole thing is supposed to remain rounded). Try setting the layout to anything else (2021 is the closest to the current layout), and the video should be squared.
Edit: To change settings, pin the extension to the toolbar, then click on the icon to make the config window pop up. Here's how you do that: https://imgur.com/a/IIxddDa - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14532424, a year ago10/10 hope youtube funds this project as you work better than their entire team, thanks for making this!
- Rated 5 out of 5by megakarlach, a year agoIt just works. Almost perfect, despite there are few issues and limitations but works great.
10/10.
Also F Google/YT for previously killing the proper old layout that does not requires extensions to run on top of the new, slow and bloated UI. - Rated 5 out of 5by myedition8, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ShibePatrol, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by doctorwhatag, a year agoЯ радий що хтось це таки зробив, що я можу побачити ютуб таким, яким він був багато років тому в робочому стані. Дякую розробнику/розробникам за це.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18023018, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by lilith, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by itismartin, 2 years agoStuck at "Getting upload date" and views show up as question marks, but overall works.
PS: Is there a way to report bugs somewhere?Developer response
posted 2 years agoYes, that does seem to happen on some videos. I'll look into it.
Edit: Yes, you can report bugs to the CustomTube Github: https://github.com/lightbeam24/CustomTube/issues - Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Haista, 2 years agoNice addon! Noticed a couple of bug-like things. With ESR Firefox yt subscription page thumbs will now lose 3-dot menu button. And the addon settings aren't settable. Are those things fixable? Thanks!
Response to dev...
Apologies for not mentioning that the addon is problematic with ESR 52.9.0, in Windows XP environment. I did find the setting though. Youtube still works in WinXP, but ever since they introduced the polymer bloat, it's usability has gradually gone downhill. That goes for modern OS's also, so thanks again for trying to make things better!
P.S. The addon works perfectly in Win10. And as much as I would love to, I'm not expecting the addon to become compatible with WinXP.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks!
I downloaded Firefox 102 ESR to test, and I was able to edit the settings just fine. Are you sure you found the popup with all the settings? A few users reported not being able to find it at first. The CustomTube icon should be either on your browser toolbar, or in the Extensions list (by clicking on the extensions button beside Firefox's menu button). Click the icon to open the popup.
If you actually did find the popup and were still unable to change settings, please consider making an issue on the CustomTube Github: https://github.com/lightbeam24/customtube/issues
As for the subscription page thumbnails, YouTube has been A/B testing a new icon system, where the icons take much longer to load. Try refreshing the page while on the subscriptions page, and wait 5-10 seconds. The 3 dots should have appeared by then. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mikky, 2 years agoMakes YouTube much more useful on a PC screen. It's nice to once again see more than six videos on my subscriptions page :)
I'd love to see a toggle that would make clicking the YouTube logo redirect me to /feed/subscriptions instead of the main page. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17936306, 2 years ago