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Reviews for YouTube Popout Player

YouTube Popout Player by Ryan Thaut

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  • by lilsab, 25 days ago
    Can you please add window snapping on pop out. Works fine on chrome, on fire fox when you tube video is pop out in new window full screen is greyed out and cant snap to edges
  • by ЯромиR, 6 months ago
    After receiving update, repeating message displays, asking new permission "block any content" to be confirmed.
    Author's home page does not provide any information about the reason for such activity, neither give any option to write the questions about it.
    There more, after I rejected to confirm such permission, it repeatedly pops out with the same annoyance.
    I've disabled the extension until clear explain will be provided.
    ...
    [update 2024-10-18]
    Quick and careful response, great Thanks!
    Now I have no doubts, everything is nice and clear.

    Developer response

    posted 6 months ago
    You are absolutely right, I completely forgot to update the page with information about the new permission!

    I have just updated that page: https://rthaut.github.io/YouTubePopoutPlayer/permissions

    Here is the explanation for that new "block any content" permission, taken directly from the updated page:

    This extension does not block any content at all, nor does it run on any pages other than the popout player.

    This is part of the big Manifest v3 changes that Chrome has pushed. The permission is "declarativeNetRequest" and is needed to set the "Referer" header for the popout player window/tab; without that header being set, many videos do not play in the popout player.

    This was previously accomplished via the "webRequest" and "webRequestBlocking" permissions that allowed code to run when the network requests were being executed (similar to how ad-blockers function), but those permissions and the corresponding functionality have been removed in Chrome for Manifest v3.

    This is only used for the embedded player page on the primary youtube.com domain and the alternate youtube-nocookie.com domain.
  • by Firefox user 12723137, 9 months ago
    Can resize the screen to be very smol, can do work while having a video in the corner.
  • by Kinto, a year ago
  • by Mtes, 2 years ago
    Like this extension a lot. Asked a developer for an additional feature and it was implemented. Thank you.

    Edit 2023-06-18: One issue occurred. When opening YT video in a popout window via right click menu, that video no longer registers in YouTube history. It was registering not so long ago. Did they change something? Can it be fixed? Thank you for this wonderful extension anyways.

    Edit 2023-06-20: No, I have "No Cookie" option disabled. Must be some change by YouTube itself.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    It may have been a change made by YouTube, but if you have enabled the "Use 'No Cookie' Version of YouTube' advanced option, that will prevent videos from being added to your watch history.
  • by Firefox user 10206391, 2 years ago
    Extension does exactly what Firefox USED TO DO AUTOMATICALLY.

    Currently, Firefox "Pop-Out" video player doesn't work on sites other than YouTube.

    So, effectively, virtually useless.

    This disabling of former Firefox features is, of course, because of the internet wide and Worldwide software plague of making NEW versions of things WORSE than the versions they replace (I'm looking at you, Windows-everything-since-Windows 7.
  • by Derko, 3 years ago
    fantastico :)))))
  • by Michael Alimax AL, 3 years ago
    Wow amazing !! Finally I found the Desktop version of the PopUp Player YouTube Add-ons. I've been a fan of Mozilla Firefox since its inception. Although these add-ons are not at the very top of the search for add-ons, but after I use them they work very well as expected. Of course there are a few configurations that must be adjusted to suit your needs. Its name is YouTube Popout Player (not Popup Player) but the purpose and function is the same, namely being able to play the YouTube Mini Player flying over anywhere in Windows. Thank you very much for the creator of these add-ons as well as Software Developers, it is really very useful. Love From 🇮🇩 Indonesia.
  • by Сергей, 3 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13310142, 3 years ago
    Amazing, just what I was looking for, love it!
  • by sosatxoxlam, 4 years ago
    Great, the only lacking feature is to be able to place the button icon on the video preview to have the opportunity to run video from the main page.
    UPD: Yes, I know, but I would like to open the video in one click, as in this addon Popup Video(WebExtension).
    Thanks for the excellent addon.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Thank you for the review!

    If you right-click on any video thumbnail, there should be a "Open Video in Popout Player" and/or "Open Playlist in Popout Player" option you can use to open it directly.

    If there's another use case you have in mind, feel free to open an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/rthaut/YouTubePopoutPlayer/issues), where you can add a screenshot to help explain.
  • by alefith, 4 years ago
    Perfect, the only lacking feature is to be able to place the popup when choosing a custom size.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    This feature is now available in version 4.0.0. You can either manually enter the position values (similar to the size values), or you can set it to "remember" the size and/or position from where you last had the popup positioned.
  • by Firefox user 15567412, 5 years ago
    been using this for ages plus a program called DeskPins that allows you to set a window to be always on top. (theres a setting that allows you to put a custom string in the window title that deskpins can search for) Unfortunately for the developer Firefox enabled functionality that makes this method redundant.
  • by Lizzie99, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14525586, 5 years ago
    Served it's purpose well. No longer need it now that Firefox supports Picture-in-Picture.
  • by FLOmaster, 6 years ago
  • by Juan Simón, 6 years ago
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  • by Jose Ricardo Rodriguez Salinas, 6 years ago
    Great extension to get this cool feature, I've seen no issues with it, yet.
    It is very handy to work with, let say now in my case, I've to do an essay, for which I'm learning out of someone's youtube videos, I can keep up writing without losing focus out of the LO Writer.
  • by waceffox, 6 years ago
    great youtube popup video addon, works great, will be even better if it can remove the top white title border or make it to match my dark firefox theme.
  • by Expmodo, 6 years ago
  • by Firefox user 12976263, 6 years ago
    Works as expected, but i wonder, is there any way to hide the info, like showinfo=0 ?
    Also, it could close the initial window.

    LE: Thanks for update 3.0, great features ! I like that now it closes the tab and hides the address bar too.
    Related to my initial question, is there any technical way to hide the video title? When "Hide Popout Controls" is enabled, when I hover the mouse over, the bottom controls are hidden but the top row, with video title, "Watch Later", "Share", "Info" still appears. Can it be hidden too ? :)

    LE: As user 14403038 stated above, an always on top option would be great :)

    Thanks anyway, great plugin !

    Developer response

    posted 6 years ago
    Thank you very much for the feedback! Version 3.0 (just released today) hides the address/URL bar, and it also lets you hide the player controls. I'm not sure if either (or both) of those are what you were referring to, but I thought I would let you know.
  • by New_Wave, 6 years ago
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