# BetterYT - Better YouTube

> Adds useful changes to YouTube, such as showing the mini player when scrolling.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `betteryt`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** room
- **Category:** appearance,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 35
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.31
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-16
- **First published:** 2022-07-30
- **Size:** 70 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/betteryt/)

## Description

BetterYT - Better YouTube is a Firefox add-on that enhances the YouTube viewing experience by adding features like a mini player on scroll, a redesigned live stream theater mode, and a new comments mode.

## Rankings

- #19,138 — Overall
- #240 — beta

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `*://youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/betteryt)