Better YouTube Shorts

Name: Better YouTube Shorts
Rating: 4.5366 (82 reviews)
Author: Young Shung

Playback controls (with J and L) and timestamp on YouTube Shorts.

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Better YouTube Shorts is an open-source Chrome extension that transforms your YouTube Shorts experience by adding advanced playback controls similar to regular YouTube videos. It includes a progress bar, customizable seeking with arrow keys, playback speed adjustments, auto skip, and volume control. Users can toggle fullscreen mode, control playback speed with specific keys, and personalize keybinds to suit their preferences.

Additional features include starting videos from the beginning with a key command, frame-by-frame navigation, auto-skipping shorts with low likes, and the option to auto-open the comment section. This extension supports over 10 languages and provides a cleaner interface by hiding overlays like titles and channel info. Fully open-source with an MIT License, it invites community suggestions and feedback via its GitHub page.

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Version:

3.7.2 Last updated: 2024-04-07

Version code:

5716998

Creation date:

2022-06-05

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Permissions:

storage

Size:

112.58K

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*****@ynshung.com

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Firefox Browser Add-ons

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Ranking

# 1,066 ▼ 12

Other rankings

#73 in Games & Entertainment ▼ 4

#162 in Photos, Music & Videos ▼ 3

#4 in make it shorter keyword 41

#4 in youtube shorts keyword 42

#33 in sports keyword 16 ▼ 2

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Better YouTube Shorts (v3.7.2)

30,000+ 4.31

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User reviews

Users appreciate that "Better YouTube Shorts" adds convenient controls missing from the native YouTube Shorts experience, such as keyboard shortcuts and overlay management. However, multiple reviewers report that the add-on often breaks after YouTube or Firefox updates, lacks active maintenance, and suffers from bugs like memory leaks and inconsistent feature functionality. Compatibility issues with other extensions and frequent need to restart the browser reduce its reliability and user satisfaction.

Pros

Adds useful controls and features to YouTube Shorts that are missing natively, such as arrow key shortcuts for skipping.
Improves user experience by adding commonsense functionalities to YouTube Shorts.
Provides features like hiding overlay on shorts and toggling auto-skip at the end of videos.

Cons

The add-on frequently stops working properly due to YouTube and Firefox updates and lacks timely updates from developers.
Memory leak issues have been reported, indicating poor resource management.
Certain features such as the progress bar, overlay hiding, and auto-skip do not function correctly or consistently.
Incompatibility with other add-ons like uBlock can cause playback and audio issues.
User interface and features sometimes fail to appear, requiring browser restart to work again.

Recent reviews

Was nice while it lasted but as others have said it's broken right now, and also totally broke volume control on shorts so I had to uninstall. Since shorts natively have a progress/scrub bar now this is less required but I do miss the arrow key shortcuts for +-5sec skipping.

by Rain, 2025-05-09

Most features in this stopped working correctly as both Youtube and Firefox updated. This addon has not been updated to address these issues.

by Firefox user 17104412, 2025-05-01

Stopped working with FF 137.0.2

by Pagurida, 2025-04-22

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Risk impact

Better YouTube Shorts requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Risk likelihood

Better YouTube Shorts is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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