YouTube Enhancer 💻 version history - 9 versions
YouTube Enhancer 💻 by VampireChicken
YouTube Enhancer 💻 version history - 9 versions
Be careful with old versions! These versions are displayed for testing and reference purposes.You should always use the latest version of an add-on.
Latest version
Version 1.36.0
Released Nov 4, 2026 - 2.63 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later- Added Custom Font Family, Custom Seek Duration, Sharp Corners, Keyword Blocklist, and a drag speed boost gesture
- Added Hide Autoplay Button, Hide Fullscreen Button, Hide Next Button, Hide Video Duration, Hide Playlist Recommendations, and Hide Endscreen Recommended Videos
- Added normal and fullscreen modes to Hide Live Stream Chat
- Improved startup so feature buttons appear 2.5s sooner
- Fixed Automatic Theater Mode, Maximize Player Button, and Automatically Maximize Player fighting, plus Automatically Disable Ambient Mode and On-Screen Display on Shorts
- Fixed Button Controller and Feature Menu buttons missing or stacking, wrong icons
- Fixed Closed Captions fighting itself, Default to Original Audio Track on inverted defaults, Global Volume on Shorts
- Fixed Hide AI in livestream chat, Hide Live Stream Chat through fullscreen and pre-roll ads
- Fixed Loop Button not registering, Mini Player attaching late, and Player Speed not sticking across navigation
- Fixed Open YouTube Settings on Hover leaving menus open and Player Quality losing the choice after ads
- Fixed Playlist Length durations, Playlist Management Buttons Watch Later, Playlist Reverse Button missing videos
- Fixed Remember Volume, Skip Continue Watching, and Timestamp Preview on slow loads
- Fixed Save to Watch Later card width, hover shape, vanishing errors, and YouTube's snackbars
- Fixed Scroll Wheel by mouse, Shorts Auto Scroll on player swap, Video History logging wrong videos
- Fixed Remove Redirect, Restore Fullscreen Scrolling, and Pause Background Players
- Fixed features missing on a channel's Posts and Streams tabs and translations
Source code released under MIT License
Older versions
Version 1.35.0
Released Sep 6, 2026 - 2.54 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later- Added a Catppuccin Mocha preset to the Deep Dark theme
- Rebuilt the Save to Watch Later button with YouTube's native components, persistent toggle, native watch-later icon, and toasts for confirmations and errors
- Broadcast On-Screen Display config changes to the page context
- Improved Scroll Wheel performance by coalescing queued steps and pushing config slices to the controller
- Skipped unnecessary options fetches in speed button tooltips
- Fixed Hide AI not hiding the AI summary in the livestream chat iframe
- Fixed Auto Disable Autoplay giving each video its own click budget, counting a toggle only once autoplay reports off, and switching autoplay off when YouTube folds the toggle away
- Fixed Automatic Theater Mode ending when the mode reads as desired, not on the click
- Fixed Closed Captions forcing the caption state on navigation, retrying the subtitles button until the player accepts the click, and tracking the state per video before restoring it on disable
- Fixed Default to Original Audio Track capturing the original track per video and passing the player the track object
- Fixed Global Volume applying the volume once the player loads and when changed while enabled
- Fixed Hide Live Stream Chat always removing the hide class on disable and reading the live flag once the player loads the stream
- Fixed Mini Player, Maximize Player, and Button Controller keeping button state in sync with the player
- Fixed Open YouTube Settings on Hover keeping the menu open when a submenu opens, replacing navigation listeners instead of stacking them, and invalidating setups on disable
- Fixed Player Quality detecting manual changes through the requested quality, suspending enforcement, and re-enforcing when an ad ends
- Fixed Playlist Management Buttons, Save to Watch Later, and Playlist Length setups and comparisons
- Fixed Playback Speed Buttons resolving after the options request and Player Manager aborted retries
- Fixed Scroll Wheel controls resolving the right player, listening in the capture phase, and removing volume listeners on disable
- Fixed Share Shortener, Remove Redirect, and Timestamp Preview cleanup issues
- Fixed Video History, On-Screen Display, Notifications, and locale caching
- Fixed stale URL live flags and settings applied during an active page setup
- Fixed thumbnail overlay in a maximized player, below-player button centering, and pointer-events scope
- Fixed Firefox audio resume on visibility change, the video progress selector, the audio engine return, and preload links
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.34.2
Released Aug 21, 2026 - 2.32 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later- Fixed Mini Player by ensuring the Trusted Types policy is available globally and hardening the enable and restore flow
- Fixed Player Speed not respecting manual playback speed adjustments made while the feature is enabled
- Fixed the Popup width stretching to Chrome's maximum canvas size
- Fixed the options page failing to open after updating, caused by newly added settings not being populated with their default values
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.34.1
Released Aug 20, 2026 - 2.32 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and later- Fixed the options page failing to open after updating, caused by newly added settings not being populated with their default values
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.33.0
Released Jun 8, 2026 - 2.23 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterFeatures- Added separate button positioning options for fullscreen mode
- Added option to block number key seeking
- Added Flip Video buttons for horizontal and vertical video flipping
- Expanded Hide AI with support for more AI-related elements, including the Ask YouTube button
- Added option to hide posts
- Added per-section settings for Hide Shorts
- Added a Mono-to-Stereo button
- Added conflict resolution when importing settings
- Added fuzzy search to the settings page and popup
- Added scroll-wheel adjustment for Volume Boost
Improvements- Added a new application icon
- Improved fullscreen button positioning customization
- Expanded coverage of Hide AI and Hide Shorts
Bug fixes- Fixed Pause Background Player when PiP was enabled
- Fixed Auto Disable Autoplay not restoring the previous state
- Fixed Default to Original Audio Track and added Shorts support
- Fixed Feature Menu positioning and hover behavior
- Fixed Hide Paid Promotion Banner
- Fixed Hide Playlist Recommendations on playlist pages
- Fixed Hide Shorts on the Home page
- Fixed Maximize Player issues affecting fullscreen behavior, layout, and Escape key handling
- Fixed Mini Player migration and thumbnail update issues
- Fixed Open YouTube Settings on Hover
- Fixed Player Speed after YouTube UI changes
- Fixed Playlist Length calculation, styling, API compatibility, and Watch Later support
- Fixed Remember Volume not persisting correctly
- Fixed Shorts Auto Scroll
- Fixed Timestamp Preview overlay issues
- Fixed features not running correctly on some pages
- Fixed redundant feature re-enabling on the same URL
- Fixed Firefox player ready-state detection
- Improved browser compatibility by replacing deprecated unload events
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.32.0
Released Feb 7, 2026 - 2.1 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterFeatures- Added Global Volume - videos always start at your preferred volume
- Added a Mini player that appears when scrolling to comments, plus a new button to open it anytime
- Added Timestamp preview when hovering over timestamps
- Added option to disable automatic opening of the settings page after updates
Improvements- Updated Deep Dark theme to version 4.7.4
- Increased left-side control icon size for better visibility
Bug fixes- Fixed Automatic theater mode not enabling on live streams
- Fixed Button placement issues where left-side buttons were not hiding
- Fixed Default to original audio track after YouTube changes broke the feature
- Fixed Hide artificial intelligence summary not hiding properly
- Fixed Hide members-only videos
- Videos were not being hidden on the Home and Channel pages
- Recommended videos were sometimes hidden by mistake when a members-only video appeared
- Fixed On-screen display overlapping with Shorts interface elements
- Fixed Player quality not selecting the highest available quality when the selected one wasn’t available
- Fixed Restore player speed not saving your playback speed correctly
- Fixed Scroll wheel controls not working on Shorts pages
- Fixed Scroll wheel speed and volume control targeting the wrong elements
- Fixed Scroll wheel volume control being interrupted by fullscreen scrolling
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.31.1
Released Jan 11, 2026 - 2.12 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterBug fixes- Fixed Hide artificial intelligence summary not hiding content as expected
- Fixed Hide members-only videos not consistently hiding videos
- Fixed Scroll wheel volume control and Scroll wheel speed control sometimes not working
- Fixed Scroll wheel volume control being interfered with by full-screen scrolling
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.31.0
Released Dec 19, 2025 - 2.1 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterFeatures- Automatically disable autoplay
- Hide the recommended videos sidebar
- Screenshot button: Add a Both save option to save screenshots to a file and copy them to the clipboard at the same time
Bug fixes- Default to original audio track: Implement a more robust method for handling audio tracks
- Hide playlists from homepage: Prevent playlists from being hidden on playlist pages
- Remaining time: Restore functionality after a YouTube-side change
- Playback speed buttons: Fix tooltip to reflect the current playback speed set in YouTube’s settings menu
- Video history: Prevent resuming videos on official artist channels when it shouldn’t
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.30.1
Released Nov 19, 2025 - 2.08 MBWorks with firefox 140.0 and laterFeatures- You can now access the top bar of YouTube when the player is maximized
- Automatically show more videos when the end screen appears
- Hide members-only videos from view
Bug fixes- Add backward compatibility for the old layout in features updated for the new layout
- Hide AI summary: Fix issue where it didn’t enable on page load
- Maximize player button: Fix duplicate progress bar when maximized
- Unable to scroll the page when player was maximized
Source code released under MIT License