Reviews for Multiselect for YouTube™
Multiselect for YouTube™ by Pollux
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 1 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 3 years agoStarted using 3.0, and it's a lot less usable than the previous version. The biggest problem I have is how the extension hijacks the Home, End, and arrow keys. Whenever I make a change in a playlist, YouTube unloads everything in the list after the 100th video and I need to hold down the End key until everything returns. With the update, the extension only scrolls to the 100th video when I press End, so I have to turn the extension off, hold down End until the rest of the videos load, then turn it back on. It's also annoying if I try to use the arrow keys to scroll up or down a little and it just jumps back to the whatever video was highlighted. (EDIT: I think End still works to scroll, but it takes a moment to load and there isn't a spinning wheel to indicate anything is happening)
There's a new confirmation prompt when I try to remove several videos at once, which adds another step.
While clicking anywhere on a playlist item to select it is easier and faster than clicking a box, this disables drag and drop, which is useful when I want to move a single video into another location. It's easier to click and hold, scroll up, then release than it is to click, scroll, right click, then click move down here. Another added step.
I also miss the videos being numbered, which gave me easy reference points to find when moving through a large playlist.
The center bottom location of the toolbar blocks the bottom video, and having to click the three dots to use functions I use all the time, while three functions I rarely use are always visible. I would like all functions visible or customizable, and the bar should span to the left of the Multiselect button, blocking the search bar, which I wouldn't be using when organizing a list anyway.
I hope the next version is as helpful as previous versions.
EDIT: Lowered rating to 1 star for the immature developer response to legitimate, constructive criticism. All of these things can be fixed and more people would use this extension if they were, but if this person would rather encourage me to uninstall than make improvements, then I encourage everyone dissatisfied with these changes to look elsewhere, as this is apparently the final version.
There's a new confirmation prompt when I try to remove several videos at once, which adds another step.
While clicking anywhere on a playlist item to select it is easier and faster than clicking a box, this disables drag and drop, which is useful when I want to move a single video into another location. It's easier to click and hold, scroll up, then release than it is to click, scroll, right click, then click move down here. Another added step.
I also miss the videos being numbered, which gave me easy reference points to find when moving through a large playlist.
The center bottom location of the toolbar blocks the bottom video, and having to click the three dots to use functions I use all the time, while three functions I rarely use are always visible. I would like all functions visible or customizable, and the bar should span to the left of the Multiselect button, blocking the search bar, which I wouldn't be using when organizing a list anyway.
I hope the next version is as helpful as previous versions.
EDIT: Lowered rating to 1 star for the immature developer response to legitimate, constructive criticism. All of these things can be fixed and more people would use this extension if they were, but if this person would rather encourage me to uninstall than make improvements, then I encourage everyone dissatisfied with these changes to look elsewhere, as this is apparently the final version.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoI can only advise you to uninstall this extension, then you don't have to worry anymore.
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147 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by liq7, 18 days agoAmazing add-on, automatically detects how many videos are in your playlist, can copy the entire playlist or save as a file locally, and import it onto another account instantly. Thanks so much saved me tons of time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sea Eagle, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17162296, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16081590, 2 months agoUnfortunately, dont' work on yotube history menu. Is there a way I can return back to the previous version. if Maybe it would work again.
And it is no longer possible to cut away from a playlist; I can only copy - Rated 5 out of 5by thegoncharov, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19444344, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Terrkaan, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18384089, 6 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by moosetwin, 6 months agoIt's really nice but lags your browser like crazy when viewing a large playlist, even when it isn't being used
- Rated 5 out of 5by Wall, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by redfox, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RivasGG, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alice, 7 months agoWorks mostly, but lately, attempting to delete videos from playlists results in a "Precondition check failed" error, and the videos do not actually get deleted. Adding to other playlists, multiselecting, etc all work fine, but deleting kicks back an error. Still worth it though!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lisa, 7 months agoUsed to work perfectly, but now it doesn't actually delete vids when it says it does. Still saves a ton of time transferring vids between lists and definitely worth the download.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18983384, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by noxia, 8 months agoDeleted it briefly because I thought I found an alternative that did this and a few other things, but it sucked. Great job on this! Developers like you are always appreciated.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12872273, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14869679, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18963013, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14004388, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18923488, 9 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by BlohoJo, 9 months agoUsed to be perfect, but now, it will only remove the initially loaded videos from any particular playlist, which is 100. If you have say 2000 videos in there, you now have to do it 20 times with refreshes in between, etc. The extension will act like it's removing videos if you load more than the initial 100 (either manually or using the plugin) but the videos will not be deleted. It's not user friendly to just let users discover disfunction on their own, as it wastes time and is very frustrating. It does still seem to copy videos to a new playlist when loading the whole playlist.