Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube

Always display a tiny progress bar with buffer loading on YouTube's player even in the fullscreen mode

What is Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube?

Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube is a Chrome extension that brings a small, persistent progress bar to the YouTube player, offering a constant visual cue of the player's progress status. It provides customizable features such as adjustable bar height and color, and is compatible with both the YouTube website and embedded YouTube players on any website.

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By: emano.waldeck

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 9,000+

Rating: 4.27 (63)

Version: 0.3.0 (Last updated: 2024-05-16)

Creation date: 2019-07-22

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

*://www.youtube.com/*

Size: 38.73K

Email: em*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 10767 ▼ 246

Other rankings

#619 in Just for Fun #4 in progress keyword 29 #115 in keep keyword 56

Other platforms

Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube (v0.2.2)

4.41

(27) 418

Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube (v0.3.0)

4.30

(3) 1,335+

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Extension summary

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This extension brings a small, persistent progress bar to the YouTube player, enhancing your viewing experience. You can customize the extension to adjust the bar's height and color on the options page.

The beauty of this feature lies in its adaptability ? it remains hidden until the default YouTube progress bar disappears, even in fullscreen mode!

The primary goal is to offer a constant visual cue of the player's progress status. If the bar appears too slim for your screen, head to the options page and tweak the height setting.

Exciting Features:

Keep track of the loaded percentage (buffered video progress).
Monitor the current position of the player.
Updates of these percentages every 2 seconds (adaptive).
Almost all features are fully customizable through the options page.
Compatible with the YouTube website and embedded YouTube players on any website.
Hides the permanent progress bar on live streams

Recent Changes:

User reviews

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Pros

Useful and helpful extension
Provides customization options
Works as intended most of the time

Cons

Stopped working unexpectedly
Progress bar doesn't match with YouTube's progress bar
Issues with live streaming accuracy

Most mentioned

Stopped working
Works as intended
Customization needed for current time and total length display

Recent reviews

Renato Frota, 2024-10-22

有用，nice

sama syu, 2024-08-24

Very nicely made extension, I've modified it to update even faster(changed the fastest update limit to 50ms instead of 500ms) and no problem thus far.