'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)

Name: 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)
Rating: 4.2893 (878 reviews)
Author: code-for-charity

Youtube Extension. Powerful but lightweight. Enrich your Youtube and content selection. Make YouTube tidy and smart! (Layout, Filters, Shortcuts, Playlist)

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Features & Capabilities

Improve YouTube! is a powerful yet lightweight open-source Chrome extension designed to enrich your YouTube and video content experience. With over 175 unique features, it enhances video playback, customizes layout and themes, and offers advanced content filtering and control, making your YouTube experience smarter and tidier.

Key features include customizable video player settings (resolution, speed, looping, pop-out player), enhanced playback controls (auto-pause, picture-in-picture), a variety of themes and schedules (dark mode, blue-light filter), and comprehensive content management tools (block channels, hide ads, remove distractions). It also supports multi-language translation and works seamlessly without reloading the page. Recommended and praised by Firefox and media outlets, Improve YouTube! helps save time and clicks while providing a better content discovery and viewing experience.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

4.2028 Last updated: 2026-06-16

Version code:

6295950

Creation date:

2021-03-21

Risk:

Permissions:

Host permissions:

https://www.youtube.com/*

Content scripts matches:

www.youtube.com

Size:

1.08MB

Email:

bu*****@improvedtube.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-23

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 217 ▼ 2

Other rankings

#4 in Tabs

#10 in Appearance

#10 in Photos, Music & Videos

#1 in improve keyword 33

#1 in provide keyword 47

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*Improve YouTube!* (for YouTube + Videos) (v4.2028)

37,105 4.40

(103)

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Developed by:

code-for-charity

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/

Email:

bu*****@improvedtube.com

Website:

https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension

Permission Change History

2026-03-28: Version 4.2000 → 4.2026

Add Permissions: unlimitedStorage

2026-02-24: Version 4.1400 → 4.2000

Remove Host permissions: https://m.youtube.com/*

Add Optional host permissions: https://returnyoutubedislikeapi.com/*

2024-08-13: Version 4.1085 → 4.1093

Add Host permissions: https://m.youtube.com/*

2024-06-27: Version 4.937 → 4.1007

Add Host permissions: https://www.youtube.com/*

Remove Permissions: battery

2024-05-22: Version 4.930 → 4.937

Add Permissions: battery

User Reviews

Multiple reviews report severe performance problems after installing Improve YouTube!, including browser lag, page freezes, and high resource usage that can render YouTube and the browser unusable. Settings issues are also common: the settings panel may become inaccessible, and saved settings or watched lists may not be retained. Some users note memory-related crashes on certain setups. While some features (e.g., fit-to-window, customization) are valued, reliability problems dominate the feedback, prompting many to remove the extension.

Pros

Cons

Severe performance degradation: browser lag, freezes, and high resource usage that can render YouTube and the browser unusable.
Settings issues after updates: the settings panel becomes inaccessible, and saved settings or watched lists may not be retained/exported.

Recent reviews

I emailed you about the issue, and thank you for fixing it.

by to*****, 2026-06-21

by fe*****, 2026-06-21

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Is 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) 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.

'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) 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.

'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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