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Reviews for YouTube Redux

YouTube Redux by omnidev0

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  • by Firefox user 16516869, 4 years ago
    Thank you for the extension, you are my savior.

    I got some suggestion that would love to propose, hope you can respond:

    Bring back how a video page look like, basically like this, hope it helps:

    https://i.imgur.com/xpf0vMe.jpg

    Plus, the video list in the up-next's right column, it just keep displaying endlessly number of suggested videos, here's my idea: reduce them into limited number, just like Old Layout:

    https://i.imgur.com/aQjxdxr.png

    https://i.imgur.com/8Zbo87W.png

    It would be awesome if you also can add the Youtube's site footer from Old Layout too as well:

    https://i.imgur.com/jm0TRjP.png

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Appreciate the suggestions! Going over the screens from top to bottom:
    1. I'll try it. I was already planning on restoring the old likes bar layout and I'll also see what can be done about other stuff to get as close to the old layout as possible. No promises though. Working with these elements often proves to be troublesome considering multiple resolutions and resizing. But seems doable!
    2/3. I can try to work around it by inserting some long blank element to avoid loading more, just like with comments scrolling option.
    4. I wouldn't hope for much here. All the pages got infinite scrolling so the footer would have to be always fixed to the bottom of the page which would interfere with comments or videos below it and also there is no way (I guess) to get to the old layout to compare what each footer button did in order to replicate it properly. BUT maybe I could add language and country settings to the sidebar on the main page.

    I got some stuff to fix first before I get to it so don't expect it to happen overnight, thanks!
  • by tttony, 4 years ago
    since yotube has been changing I had two others addons that stopped working, was looking for an addon that can change the player size and this one does the job the only bad? thing is that there is a blank space between the player/comments and the right sidebar

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have the fix for it added to the 'align content' setting soon.

    Edit: it has been fixed and added to the small player option.
  • by NileQT87, 4 years ago
    I can foresee this becoming my savior for the video size, which is just overwhelmingly large on desktop. Sadly, the video progress bar seems to not match the width of the video, so a 4 minute video will only show a clickable progress bar up to 2 1/2 minutes with the rest of it hidden. I assume the progress bar is still the length of the new video width with a big portion of it just cut off.

    I actually found yet another workaround for Good Old YouTube and Custom UserAgent String (*edit* now dead as of this afternoon), but the Add to Playlist button is broken on video pages for that. Still need it desperately for playlists (which are also hideously oversized and slow-loading compared to the fast-loading, compact lists), which literally don't load without constant Firefox warning messages. Huge problem if you have thousands of videos in playlists that are now unloadable. I've been making constant Save Page As backups while it lasts.

    Developer response

    posted 4 years ago
    Quite a late answer but I very recently figured out how to fix the progress bar for good. Keep your eyes open for fixes and player size presets in the coming days!

    EDIT: It's fixed.
  • by hacKim, 4 years ago
    please add 'sort by' option for videos. there is already a small addon 'youtube-sorter', which works partially.
  • by eligator, 4 years ago
    Great! This look was the reason I was using Good Old YouTube, but at the moment it's not working. Saw your recent post there about this Add-on. So much better than the new format. Thanks.
  • by Firefox user 16495358, 4 years ago
    Perfect. Exactly what i was searching. And the numbers of images/row can event be changed. Thank you Mr Omnidev0. (and let's hope google won't "fix" too rapidly)
  • by Tristanian, 4 years ago
    The definitive addon that we deserve, when it comes to maintaining most of the options and styles provided by the good old layout, before Google decided that they know what's best for us. It is also far less likely to break. 5 stars well earned.