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

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

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-addon`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** code-for-charity
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos,tabs
- **Daily users:** 102,374
- **Weekly downloads:** 1,560
- **Rating:** 4.28 / 5 (897 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.2081
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-05
- **First published:** 2021-03-21
- **Size:** 824 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension](https://github.com/code4charity/YouTube-Extension)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-addon/privacy/)

## Description

**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.

## Rankings

- #222 — Overall
- #4 — Tabs
- #11 — Appearance
- #11 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #1 — improve
- #1 — provide

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Host permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension was updated in the past 3 months. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

### 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.

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