Improve Youtube's touch functionality!
TouchyTube - Improve Youtube's touch functionality!
TouchyTube is a Chrome extension that improves the touch functionality of Youtube. It allows users to easily navigate Youtube's website with touch input, including the ability to long press and open videos in new tabs.
Extension stats
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Size: 6.13K
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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary
Trying to navigate the Youtube website with touch input is horrible. You can't even long press to open a video in a new tab. This extension fixed that!
User reviews
While it does solve the right-click issue, this extension introduces two new problems:
1. I can no longer drag my finger along the progress bar to seek through the video.
2. I can no longer double-tap the sides of the video to skip forward and back.
Overall, the experience (especially navigation) is worse than before so I'm uninstalling.
I know that this is kind of a personal project but please consider adding options-menu to your extention, I really like this extention but I have 2 annoying problem.
Frist, the new YouTube touch has a feature that in the playing page with sweeping finger down it goes to the homepage, for some reasons_other extensions plus new touch gestures using GestureSign app_ I have to sweep down frequently, so it'd be excellent if I could turn this YouTube gesture/feature off.
Last is that I want the original double-finger-tap gesture that new touch version of YouTube has for backward/forward jump feature, with this extention on double-finger just do right click-context menu job_which is the default behavior of Chrome on touchscreens.
I'd really appreciate it.
Saved my life. I was about to kill myself after getting frustrated with the long press hold right click issue on YouTube. 2$ from my side as a thanking gesture.
Extension safety
Risk impact
TouchyTube requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
TouchyTube has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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