YouTube™ on Hover Preview

View YouTube while hovering mouse over a YouTube link on any website

YouTube™ on Hover Preview

YouTube™ on Hover Preview is a Chrome extension that allows you to preview YouTube links on any website by simply hovering your mouse over them. This extension saves you the trouble of opening each link in a separate tab. You can customize the placement of the preview player and set a delay for the preview to appear. It also marks visited links and provides a 'Turn of the Light' mode for previews. Clicking somewhere inside the page hides the preview player. Visit the FAQ page for more information or report bugs on GitHub. Best for a hassle-free YouTube browsing experience!

Extension stats

Users: 1,365+
Rating: 4.26
(23)
Version: 0.1.9 (Last updated: 2017-09-24)
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • tabs
  • history
  • *://www.youtube.com/*
Size: 21.23K
Price: Free

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Extension summary

"YouTube™ on Hover" extension displays a floating panel player once your mouse is over a YouTube link. This is useful to preview YouTube links without the need to open them in separate tabs.

To hide the floating player, just click somewhere inside the page.

For your convenience there are some options:

  1. You can either place the player at the center of the screen or just beneath the YouTube link with custom offset.
  2. For the player to appear, keep hover over a link for 1 second. This option is useful to bypass YouTube links that are accidentally been hovered
  3. Once a link is previewed, it will be stroked-through to be distinguished from other YouTube links that are still not visited. Note that the strike-though is not permanent. Reloading the page will remove all the decorations.
  4. As of version 0.1.4, you can watch previews in "Turn of the Light" mode. Open options page to change this setting.

For FAQs please visit: http://add0n.com/youtube-hover.html

For reporting bugs please use: https://github.com/schomery/youtube-hover/issues

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User reviews

Все еще работает, при этом имеет неплохие настройки, позволяющие регулировать расположение, размер и задержку появления всплывающего окна превью. На окошке сохраняются все элементы управления, вплоть до встроенных другими расширениями. То есть уже из превью, не покидая исходной страницы, можно регулировать скорость, громкость, качество видео.
by Sergey Andreev, 2020-12-05

Flawless. I recommend 2500 milliseconds and checking "Display on YouTube" in the settings.
by Meta Master, 2020-08-10

Works pretty well,but would be nice to see more customization options like - show preview only as long as you hover the link with the mouse - show preview inside thumbnail instead of a seperate frame (with or without controls choosable)
by Dogan Mermertas, 2019-09-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube™ on Hover Preview requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

YouTube™ on Hover Preview may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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