# Shorts Deflector

> Seamlessly play YouTube Shorts with the normal desktop interface

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/shorts-deflector](https://chrome-stats.com/d/shorts-deflector)

## Overview

- **ID:** `shorts-deflector`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Attituding
- **Category:** games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 367
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (10 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.17.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-29
- **First published:** 2022-04-03
- **Size:** 31 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/shorts-deflector/)

## Description

### 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](https://github.com/evenevan/shorts-deflector).

## Rankings

- #6,071 — Overall
- #42 — defi
- #49 — interface
- #75 — desktop
- #81 — alarm
- #94 — sheets

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `webNavigation`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/shorts-deflector)