CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout

Name: CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout
Rating: 4.2475 (101 reviews)
Author: lightbeam

Choose your own YouTube layout, and more!

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CustomTube is a versatile Chrome extension that empowers you to personalize your YouTube experience by choosing among various classic YouTube layouts from 2008 to 2021 with just one click. It not only restores old interface designs but also offers additional powerful features to enhance your viewing pleasure.

Key features include the ability to loop videos by default (with an option to exclude playlist videos), customization of video player size, improved search by hiding irrelevant results, and the option to hide the "Shorts" button on the sidebar. With ongoing updates planned, CustomTube ensures an increasingly tailored and distraction-free YouTube environment.

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Version:

1.2.7.2 Last updated: 2024-02-02

Version code:

5686244

Creation date:

2023-05-12

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Permissions:

activeTab
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861.25K

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Firefox Browser Add-ons

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a day ago

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#10 in layout keyword 24 ▲ 1

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CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout (v1.2.7.2)

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User reviews

Users appreciate CustomTube for restoring classic YouTube layouts and customizable thumbnails, which counter the disliked new minimalist UI. However, multiple reviews mention bugs, broken features, and graphic glitches that arise especially after recent YouTube updates. The add-on suffers from infrequent maintenance or abandonment, causing persistent issues with the search bar, layout rendering, and button overlaps. Despite these problems, many remain hopeful for future fixes due to the extension's unique and desirable features.

Pros

Allows reverting to older YouTube layouts, offering a nostalgic and preferred user experience.
Enables customization of thumbnail size and number of thumbnails per row, improving homepage browsing.
Provides multiple classic YouTube eras to choose from, accommodating various user preferences.
Helps users dislike the new minimalist and modernist YouTube UI that many find unpleasant.

Cons

The add-on is often broken or buggy, especially after recent YouTube updates, affecting features like search bar and layout display.
Many custom UI elements and layouts don't function properly or have graphic/design issues such as button overlays and missing elements.
Updates are rare or abandoned, leading to compatibility issues and unresolved bugs.
Some layouts fail to load video details, comments, or recommended videos consistently.
Certain older design versions have visual glitches like cut-off buttons and off-centered text.

Recent reviews

great, I cannot stand the large film minuatures youtube makes, this extension helped me to make them smaller with more icons on the home page

by niuxen, 2025-05-09

Since YouTube changed to 3 massive thumbnails per row, this extension has been the answer. It lets you set the thumbnail size and number of thumbnails per row, or just revert to an older YouTube layout. Love it.

by Firefox user 18623341, 2025-04-22

This works... But only for the default layout (the 2017 one). Changing any settings, does absolutely nothing and no amount of refreshing will change the layout to the one you've selected.

by disasterofsorts, 2025-04-17

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Extension safety

Risk impact

CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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