More than 20 million videos are uploaded to YouTube every day. YouTube adds features over time, but browser extensions can further improve the viewing experience. Chrome-focused extensions can also work in Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi. The recommendations avoid extensions primarily aimed at blocking ads to support creators. Improve YouTube provides customization such as hiding the sidebar or thumbnails, changing progress bar and UI colors, adding search-result tabs, hiding YouTube Shorts, reversing playlists, pausing videos when switching tabs, and setting custom keyboard shortcuts. Enhancer for YouTube adds quick controls for playback speed, quality, and volume, plus custom themes including multiple dark mode variations.
"We've focused on extensions for Google Chrome here, which should also work on Microsoft Edge and any other browser based on Chromium (including Opera and Vivaldi). We're also going to steer clear of extensions based primarily around blocking ads, in the spirit of supporting content creators on YouTube."
"Improve YouTube is one of the most comprehensive and longest-running YouTube extensions, and it brings with it a host of features. For a start, you can use it to change the look of the YouTube site in a variety of ways: Hide the sidebar or video thumbnails for a cleaner look, for example, or change the color of the progress bar and other elements."
"Other tweaks you can apply include new tabs for search results (so you can find new videos without losing your place in the current one), the option to hide YouTube Shorts, and a reverse option for your playlists. You can also have videos pause when you switch tabs, and use the extension to set up custom keyboard shortcuts. There's a lot here."
"Enhancer for YouTube gives you quick and easy access to playback speed, quality, and volume, and more granular control over videos than the built-in YouTube options. The extension can also transform the look of YouTube with custom themes, like a bespoke dark mode look that offers dozens of variations."
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