# Fast YouTube Load

> YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome. This extension helps you to load more faster the page in your Firefox.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/fast-youtube-load](https://chrome-stats.com/d/fast-youtube-load)

## Overview

- **ID:** `fast-youtube-load`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Jhonatas Machado
- **Daily users:** 796
- **Weekly downloads:** 20
- **Rating:** 3.65 / 5 (54 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-05-23
- **First published:** 2018-07-26
- **Size:** 34 KB
- **Data as of:** 2024-04-20
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fast-youtube-load/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/jhonatasrm/Fast-YouTube-Load/issues](https://github.com/jhonatasrm/Fast-YouTube-Load/issues)

## Description

'Fast YouTube Load' is a Firefox add-on designed to drastically improve the loading speed of YouTube in Firefox. It optimizes and fastens loading by changing the design to a pre-Polymer one which increases the website's performance and effectively makes it 5x faster.

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webRequest`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very high risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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## Review summary

### Pros

- Initially improved YouTube loading speed
- Simple and doesn't add unnecessary features
- Solves loading issues for some users

### Cons

- Causes light mode to be forced on YouTube
- Possible incompatibility with other add-ons
- Some users report slower loading times
- Dark mode breaking for some users
- Potentially outdated and unnecessary

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/fast-youtube-load)