YouTube Control Center

Name: YouTube Control Center
Rating: 3.125 (72 reviews)
Author: InBasic

YouTube popup pause and resume as well as no buffer, HD quality, wide screen, ...

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YouTube Control Center is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube viewing experience by providing comprehensive playback control directly from a toolbar popup. It allows you to pause, resume, stop, and navigate between videos without switching tabs, making media management seamless. The extension also offers advanced player behavior settings such as stopping media buffering, forcing HD playback quality (up to 2160p), disabling annotations, and preventing auto-play of next videos. By simplifying video control and customization, YouTube Control Center helps users enjoy YouTube with greater efficiency and personalization.

Additional features include automatic opening of a new YouTube tab if none is active when accessed and support for YouTube history management. The extension is regularly updated to improve buffering control and popup accessibility, ensuring a smooth and responsive user experience.

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By:

InBasic

Users:

10,000

Rating:

3.13

(72) 0.03

Version:

0.7.0 Last updated: 2024-05-05

Creation date:

2018-04-19

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
cookies

Host permissions:

*://*.youtube.com/*

Size:

107.00KB

Email:

in*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 7,704 ▲ 287

Other rankings

#2648 in Just for Fun ▼ 2 #8 in control keyword 37 ▲ 1 #103 in prevent keyword 29 ▲ 2 #106 in youtube keyword 90 ▲ 6 #165 in toolbar keyword 29 ▼ 3

Other platforms

YouTube Control Center (v0.6.4resigned1)

1,571 3.23

(69)

User reviews

Users appreciate that the extension offers more control over YouTube playback, including preventing auto-play and some playback controls without tab switching. However, many complain that advertised buffering of entire videos does not work, video quality settings often fail, and visual glitches or browser crashes occur. Some UI elements like suggestions or comment hiding malfunction or cause grey boxes, and the extension can break YouTube until removed. It works best on Google Chrome but has issues on other browsers. Overall, the extension partly achieves its purpose but has significant reliability problems.

Pros

Provides greater control over YouTube playback and auto play settings.
Some users found it useful for pausing videos on start, preventing auto-play which they disliked.
Has a simple and small interface that some users appreciated.
Works without problems on Google Chrome for certain features.
Can control YouTube without switching tabs (play/pause control).

Cons

Does not properly buffer entire videos as advertised, buffering stops early or behaves like native buffering.
Video quality settings often do not work, defaulting to 'Auto' instead of user-set highest quality or specific resolution.
Causes visual glitches like black screen overlays or grey blocks, particularly in MS Edge or sometimes Chrome.
Extension can cause Chrome crashes or YouTube to break until extension is disabled or removed.
Features like hiding sidebar suggestions or disabling comments may not work correctly or cause UI issues.

Recent reviews

Broke my Youtube and it's still broken after deleting the extension. Honestly, that's the rock bottom, how can you make an extension worse than that?

Su*****, 2025-06-11

光自動畫質沒辦法設定1080P就知道失效很久了

賣火*****, 2024-09-14

Does not work.

Fr*****, 2024-05-10

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YouTube Control Center requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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YouTube Control Center is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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