Reviews for YouTube Redux
YouTube Redux by omnidev0
Review by Firefox user 16517874
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 16517874, 5 years agovery good! !! !!
The old youtube layout so far has a high degree of perfection and is wonderful.
I am very satisfied with the use of the pillar box.
One suggestion, but I'd be happy if youtube menus could always be open on the same page.
We also need to fix an issue where the end of the progress bar is choppy when using a small video player.
December 24: Addendum
It is said that it has been fixed, but it has not been fixed as of 12/24.
4/5 will be cut off like the attached image.
https://i.imgur.com/SeGyhVg.png
December 26: Addendum
Thanks for the quick fix of the progress bar.
I am facing a new problem.
This is a serious problem for me.
From version 1.3.5 or later, you have to wait up to 10 seconds to load the next video.
No symptom was seen in previous versions.
It may be displayed immediately.
As for my symptom, the display from the top page is always awaited.
1080P → 1080P etc. will be displayed immediately.
1080P → 480P tends to occur, but the cause has not been identified.
https://i.imgur.com/30IxUeU.png
January 12: Addendum
All the problems I had in Ver1.6.3 have been cleared.
Thank you.
I appreciate it very much.
The old youtube layout so far has a high degree of perfection and is wonderful.
I am very satisfied with the use of the pillar box.
One suggestion, but I'd be happy if youtube menus could always be open on the same page.
We also need to fix an issue where the end of the progress bar is choppy when using a small video player.
December 24: Addendum
It is said that it has been fixed, but it has not been fixed as of 12/24.
4/5 will be cut off like the attached image.
https://i.imgur.com/SeGyhVg.png
December 26: Addendum
Thanks for the quick fix of the progress bar.
I am facing a new problem.
This is a serious problem for me.
From version 1.3.5 or later, you have to wait up to 10 seconds to load the next video.
No symptom was seen in previous versions.
It may be displayed immediately.
As for my symptom, the display from the top page is always awaited.
1080P → 1080P etc. will be displayed immediately.
1080P → 480P tends to occur, but the cause has not been identified.
https://i.imgur.com/30IxUeU.png
January 12: Addendum
All the problems I had in Ver1.6.3 have been cleared.
Thank you.
I appreciate it very much.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoJust wanted to let you know that progress bar has been fixed. Cheers!
EDIT: Thanks for the updates, I just looked into the issues you mentioned and sadly I cannot reproduce them. I even tried setting my YT language and region to JP and I verified it on the same video you linked but nothing breaks. If it requires some specific steps for the bug to occur then let me know. Also check if some other extensions or userscripts aren't interfering with YouTube Redux. It also appears that recently YouTube got some updates that introduced various bugs by itself so there could be stuff broken that's not related to the extension. Anyway I'll investigate further to see what could cause the long loading times since 1.3.5.
Unfortunately I'm not getting any notifications about review edits so I missed that - feel free to contact me via email or reddit thread that's linked on the extension page.
EDIT: Thanks for the updates, I just looked into the issues you mentioned and sadly I cannot reproduce them. I even tried setting my YT language and region to JP and I verified it on the same video you linked but nothing breaks. If it requires some specific steps for the bug to occur then let me know. Also check if some other extensions or userscripts aren't interfering with YouTube Redux. It also appears that recently YouTube got some updates that introduced various bugs by itself so there could be stuff broken that's not related to the extension. Anyway I'll investigate further to see what could cause the long loading times since 1.3.5.
Unfortunately I'm not getting any notifications about review edits so I missed that - feel free to contact me via email or reddit thread that's linked on the extension page.
281 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by jke, 17 days agoThank you omnidev for making this. It brings back the nostalgia of the 2010s
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dorothy, 18 days agoThis extension is just pure bliss. Seriously, this made me love YouTube even more than I do anyways now and I can just feel myself getting whole every minute while using this extension. You should absolutely get this right now, however you have to set it up, otherwise it looks REALLY oldschool!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pradeen Krishna, 18 days agoWhat an amazing extension is this. My YouTube is now blazingly fast. Please keep doing the good work in the name of Humanity that companies like google fails because they prioritize profits over people. This extension also made YouTube on Firefox faster because google is known to slow down YouTube on non-chromium based browsers through their Polymer JS framework.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Croco Diles, 23 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bery_CZ, a month agoCant change terrible large videoplayer UI back to old one. Only thing I downloaded it for.
- Rated 4 out of 5by callum, a month agoVery good extension that makes the UI much easier to wrangle, but it sometimes disables the ability to pop out the video from the tab which is very annoying. Otherwise really good product.
(If I'm just missing a setting then I am really sorry) - Rated 5 out of 5by killjoyyzz, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anon, a month agoGreat add-on, removes much of the ugliness that the "modern" UI tries to force on you.
If I could make a request, could you add the option to hide the "includes paid promotion" pop-up that appears when you hover over certain thumbnails? With the smaller thumbnails that this add-on gives you, it makes it very easy to accidentally click that pop-up instead of the video when you want to watch something. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vin, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by StewCrimps, a month agoHated so much the new icons that I actually wanted to use this type of extension. YouTube is getting trashier by the year.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Max, a month agoThis add-on would be good... if it actually would modify the video loader. The new video loader with huge buttons looks weird with the old YouTube UI. Other than, everything else seems to work fine.
- Rated 3 out of 5by CodeIcannot, a month agoThis addon modifies a lot of things on Youtube's pages, but I only consider one of those changes a good thing. The others are odd, or even bad.
First the positive one: it allows you to view more thumbnails on the mainpage. That's great!
However, along with that singular positive thing, comes a lot of questionable ones. For example, the default settings make everything about the page layouts look older, less modern, even ugly. Why is that? And even though you can disable some of these changes, there are things that it messes up permanently. Like the latest Youtube posts. They get truncated to just a few words each, and there is no option to change that behaviour. Also, playlist thumbnails are unaffected (= remain huge) despite everything else shrinking. The layouts just become erratic and mismatched.
I would not recommend this addon. If you just want to see more video thumbnails on Youtube's main page, there are better ways to achieve that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19483157, 2 months agoAn extremely useful addition to the youtube experience, although I really wish you could change the video player itself with it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mathias, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fjell, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by charlie, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Eunomie_Misama, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marco, 3 months agoNot only gave me the possibility of going back to a more usable, nostalgic and overall better looking UI but surprisingly also made youtube to work better and load faster in most instances - in the process making even more evident how much of a bad job the people behind YT are doing with all the bloat "updates" and terrible design choices. Great, great add-on
- Rated 5 out of 5by Palex, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by pan, 3 months agoLooks good, stream viewer count doesn't automatically update though
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19301711, 3 months ago