YouTube Control Center

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

What is YouTube Control Center?

'YouTube Control Center' is a powerful Chrome extension offering enhanced video controls on YouTube. It allows you to pause, resume, stop, and switch tracks without having to switch tabs. Additionally, it gives you the ability to prevent buffering, change the video quality to HD, disable player annotations, and control the auto-play feature. The extension's toolbar-popping feature makes managing your YouTube experience more convenient and user-friendly.

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By: InBasic

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.15 (71)

Version: 0.7.0 (Last updated: 2024-05-05)

Creation date: 2018-04-19

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
cookies

Host permissions:

*://*.youtube.com/*

Size: 109.57K

Email: in*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 8529 ▼ 35

Other rankings

#2793 in Just for Fun ▲ 6

#7 in control keyword 19 ▼ 1

#140 in prevent keyword 26 ▼ 5

#145 in youtube keyword 87 ▲ 27

#152 in toolbar keyword 27

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YouTube Control Center (v0.6.4resigned1)

3.23

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Extension summary

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YouTube Control Center is a browser extension to control YouTube pages from a toolbar popup. You can pause, resume, stop, move to the next or previous tracks right from the popup without the need to switch to the YouTube tab. Note that if there is no open YouTube tab, by pressing the toolbar button, a new YouTube page is opened. When the player starts to playing the video, popup is ready.

Using this extension you can also control page layout as well as the player behaviours like:

Stop player from buffering media
Change quality to HD (HD2160p, HD1440p, HD1080p, HD720p)
Prevent the player from displaying annotations
Prevent the player from starting the next track when the current one is finished

For more info please visit: http://add0n.com/control-center.html

Logs: 0.5.1: adds a new feature: Buffer video without starting it 0.5.2: the popup is now displayed when there is an open YouTube page. No buffering functionality is improved. 0.5.3: Supports YouTube history

User reviews

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Pros

Works well in Google Chrome without issues.
Allows control over autoplay and video loading behavior.
Meets user needs by pausing videos rather than auto-playing.

Cons

Does not buffer entire videos as advertised.
Experiences compatibility issues with MS Edge.
Playback quality settings often default to auto instead of user-selected quality.
Causes Chrome to crash for some users.
Settings pane is not persistent and requires reopening.

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