# Better YouTube

> Fixes some annoying things about YouTube, such as audio gain.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettertube](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettertube)

## Overview

- **ID:** `bettertube`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sin Jeong-hun
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 50
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 3.33 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.11
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-17
- **First published:** 2019-11-24
- **Size:** 28 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bettertube/)

## Description

Better YouTube is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube experience by fixing several annoying features. It adds easy-to-use audio gain controls for adjusting volume with precision, inspired by the "SoundFixer" extension but tailored specifically for YouTube. Additionally, it offers a video thumbnail viewer accessible via a "Thumb" button, allowing you to quickly check video thumbnails without leaving the player.

Other useful features include a full-size profile picture viewer for comments, toggling the video player UI to avoid obstructing subtitles or other bottom screen elements, one-click fast-forwarding to skip video segments by tens of seconds, and toggling YouTube's interaction tools like Like, Dislike, and Share buttons to reduce clutter. These enhancements streamline navigation and improve usability, offering a cleaner, more convenient YouTube viewing experience.

## Rankings

- #16,247 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/*`
- `https://yt3.ggpht.com/*`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, ggpht.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bettertube)