Youtube restore spacebar to scroll

A simple extension to restore the default browser behavior of scrolling when pressing the spacebar, on youtube.com

Restore Spacebar to Scroll on YouTube

Youtube restore spacebar to scroll is a Chrome extension that removes the functionality of pausing videos when pressing the spacebar on YouTube and restores the default scrolling behavior.

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By: bsitdk

Users: 324

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Rating: 5.00

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Version: 1.0.1 (Last updated: 2019-04-12)

Creation date: 2019-04-12

Size: 3.29K

Full description: See detailed description

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# 46,115 ▼ 535

Other rankings

#4772 in Accessibility ▲ 226 #113 in pause keyword 15 ▲ 5 #217 in scroll keyword 19 ▲ 22

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Thanks for this, I would have made it if you hadn't. Macbooks don't have a page down button, so now I can use K to play and pause and space again to scroll

Alana Balagot, 2023-11-08

works like a charm. thank you sir

Marcin Majewski, 2022-10-11

Thanks for making this. I hate it when developers remove standard user interface patterns, it's so obnoxious.

Peter Biggs, 2021-12-30

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Youtube restore spacebar to scroll requires very minimum permissions.

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