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Compare Chrome extensions: Magic Actions for YouTube™ vs SmartVideo For YouTube™

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Stats Magic Actions for YouTube™ Magic Actions for YouTube™ SmartVideo For YouTube™ SmartVideo For YouTube™
User count 900,000+ 91,444+
Average rating 4.73 3.52
Rating count 128,339 2,900
Last updated 2023-05-22 2014-06-04
Size 256.00K 185.34K
Version 7.9.5.2 0.9931
Short description
Enhance your YouTube watching experience! Cinema Mode, Mouse Wheel Volume Control, AutoHD, Expand, Snapshots … YouTube Optimizer/Enhance. Provides 'Smart Buffer' for slow connections; auto loop; buffer preferences; quality selection; and more
Full summary

Magic Actions for YouTube™ is a lightweight and useful extension designed for a more comfortable watching experience.

Magic Actions is very easy to use!

Magic Actions for YouTube™ - Key Features:

✔ AutoHD feature - start play all YouTube™ videos in HD.

  • Ultra HD 4k > HD1440p > HD1080p > HD720p > 480p > 360p > 240p > 144p

✔ Instant control over volume by scrolling mouse wheel!

  • OSD on-screen display.

✔ Cinema Mode - 1-click and the whole page is shaded.

  • make you feel as if you were in a movie theater!
  • click again to toggle back to the normal view.
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SmartVideo provides better control over YouTube buffering, quality and playing options.

Features:

  1. Works with all embedded/HTML5 YouTube videos. Be it a Facebook news feed video or a video directly from YouTube site.

  2. With global preferences, all YouTube videos can be set to start on your wish.

  • As soon as the page loads
  • When the video is buffered completely, or whatever buffer percentage you choose.
  • Let SmartVideo decide when it's good to start playing. SmartVideo's 'smart buffer' decides the buffer percentage based on your current download speed.
  • Or just make the YouTube videos to start buffering when the page loads. You can play the video whenever you wish.

  1. Along with above buffer strategies, you can opt not to initialize video until you click on it.

  2. The buffer strategy can be set for individual YouTube player or as the Global preferences. Just hover your mouse over any YouTube video.

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