YT Ratio Insights 0.6.1 focuses on usability, clearer controls, and easier feature setup while preserving the audience, prediction, tracked-video, comparison, and technical-analysis features introduced in 0.6.0.

What's new
Added a new Quick Setup section in Settings.
Added Enable all insights for users who want the complete feature set.
Added Recommended setup for a balanced default configuration.
Added Local-only setup for users who want technical, playback, tracking, and prediction features without optional Return YouTube Dislike lookup.
Added Pause on-page panel without deleting settings or local history.
Added an Enable on-page panel recovery control in the toolbar popup.
Added clearer explanations underneath major settings and controls.
Reorganized settings into easier-to-understand sections:
Audience
Growth & Predictions
Video Technical
Panel Behavior
Privacy & Audience Lookup
Added direct Enable audience lookup and Disable audience lookup controls.
Improved the Welcome / In page with clearer explanations of Audience, Growth, and Video Technical insights.
Improved dependency handling between settings so unavailable child options are clearly disabled instead of appearing active.
Preserved the user's saved preferences when parent features are temporarily disabled.
Improved navigation between Settings, Guide, Tracked Videos, Welcome, Donate, and Exit / Removal Help.

YT Ratio Insights 0.6.0 expands the extension from individual video analysis into a broader local YouTube insights dashboard.

What's new:

Added Tracked Videos dashboard for recently analyzed videos.
Compare up to 4 videos side by side.
Added smarter growth states: Trending Up, Steady Growth, Cooling Down, and Trend Developing.
Added projected view milestones with estimated time ranges when enough history is available.
Added stale-prediction detection so older forecasts are not presented as current.
Added improved 1-hour, 24-hour, and 7-day view and like projections.
Added resolution recommendations based on current stream size, displayed video size, and display pixel density.
Expanded technical insights for aspect ratio, resolution fit, scaling, playback health, dropped frames, and buffering.
Added local tracked-video search and management.
Improved prediction chart scaling and reliability.
Improved YouTube navigation and Auto-quality change handling.
Reduced unnecessary background polling and local-storage writes.
Added clearer Welcome, Guide, Settings, Tracked Videos, Exit/Removal, and optional Donate navigation.
Improved privacy controls for optional audience-data lookup.

Tracked-video history, technical analysis, predictions, preferences, and comparison information remain stored locally in Firefox.

No new analytics, advertising, account requirement, or RatioWorks tracking service was added.

The biggest improvements are internal rather than adding more clutter:

Prediction history is much lighter. Snapshots are now kept at meaningful 15-minute intervals instead of repeatedly rewriting local storage.
Fixed a prediction-timestamp issue that could distort growth rates.
Serialized storage writes so popup/page activity cannot overwrite competing prediction-history updates.
Removed redundant storage reads after recording a snapshot.
RYD totals and available live viewer count can now be handled in one growth transaction.
Predictions now blend recent momentum + longer-window growth, making 24-hour/7-day projections less sensitive to short viral bursts.
Prediction confidence drops automatically when growth is unstable.
Turning off Growth & Prediction now actually stops collecting new local history, instead of merely hiding the section.
Reduced fallback YouTube polling from 1.8 sec → 3 sec.
Hidden YouTube tabs now skip watchdog work.
Technical metrics refresh approximately every 12 seconds rather than every ~5.4 seconds.
YouTube navigation/fullscreen/visibility events still update promptly.
Reorganized the main panel to:
Audience Insights → Growth & Prediction → Video Technical Insights
Simplified the aspect-ratio object-fit: cover calculation.
Kept Welcome/In, Exit/Remove and visible Donate controls.
No new permissions or network services.
Kept source readable rather than minifying it, which is better for AMO review.

The new Growth & Prediction Insights section now adds:

Current total views
Current likes
Live viewers now, but only when YouTube actually exposes a watching now count
Projected total views for:
+1 hour
+24 hours
+7 days
Projected total likes for the same periods
Prediction ranges, instead of pretending one exact number is guaranteed
Low / Medium / Higher confidence
Recent views-per-hour and likes-per-hour trend
An Observed vs Projected chart
Chart switch between Views and Likes
Shaded uncertainty range around the prediction

For example, the panel can show something like:

Current views: 110K
+24h prediction: 194K
Likely range: 145K–243K
Current likes: 4.38K
+24h likes: 7.5K

Those numbers are only an example of how the interface works.

How the prediction works

I deliberately did not make it an AI-looking random number generator. The extension saves small snapshots when the same video is inspected again and calculates its recent growth rate.

It needs at least two observations 15+ minutes apart before forecasting. More observations over a longer period increase the confidence level.

The history is:

stored locally in Firefox
not uploaded to RatioWorks
automatically bounded/pruned
limited to approximately 30 days
limited to 72 observations per video
limited to about 50 recently tracked videos
removable with the new Clear local prediction history button in Settings

No new server and no new permission were added.