Shorts Deflector Firefox

Shorts Deflector

Seamlessly play YouTube Shorts with the normal desktop interface

Features & Capabilities

Shorts Deflector: Enhanced YouTube Shorts Experience on Desktop

Tired of YouTube Shorts opening in the mobile-optimized interface on your desktop? Shorts Deflector changes the way you watch Shorts by enabling playback in YouTube's familiar desktop interface. This extension ensures faster video loading, easy access to comments, video scrubbing, and accurate view counts — all features missing from the mobile view.

With innovative detection techniques, Shorts Deflector quickly switches Shorts to the desktop viewer, providing a seamless and natural watching experience. The extension requires minimal permissions solely to monitor page updates and is fully open source for transparency. Install Shorts Deflector to improve your YouTube Shorts viewing experience today!

  • Watch Shorts with desktop layout
  • Access comments and video controls easily
  • Faster and smoother video playback
  • Open source and privacy-conscious

Learn more or contribute on GitHub.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V3 Add-on
By:
Attituding
Daily users:
379 -5
Rating:
5.00
(10)
Version:
1.17.0 Last updated: 2024-08-29
Version code:
5800107
Creation date:
2022-04-03
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:
Host permissions:
  • https://www.youtube.com/*
Size:
30.68KB
Email:
at*****@outlook.com
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-05
Compare stats and ranking:

Other platforms

Chrome
Shorts Deflector (v1.17.0)
8,000 4.63 (35)

Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
Attituding
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shorts-deflector/
Email:
at*****@outlook.com

Permission Change History

2024-08-29: Version 1.16.2 → 1.17.0
Add Permissions: declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
2023-12-24: Version 1.9.0_firefox → 1.16.2
Add Host permissions: https://www.youtube.com/*
Add Permissions: scripting webNavigation
Remove Permissions: tabs webRequest webRequestBlocking https://www.youtube.com/*
Add Optional permissions: *://*/*
2022-08-08: Version 1.6.0 → 1.7.0_firefox
Add Permissions: https://www.youtube.com/*
Remove Permissions: *://www.youtube.com/*

User Reviews

Essential, if you don’t want to get cancer.
by Ev*****, 2026-04-02

by de*****, 2025-07-26

Great extension, does exactly what it says and the version "1.9.0_firefox" has no extra code, no remote code and nothing that could be considered malware. It does exactly what it says it does and nothing more!
by J4*****, 2023-12-18
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Is Shorts Deflector Safe?

Risk impact
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Shorts Deflector requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Critical Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
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Risk likelihood
Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Shorts Deflector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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