YouTube Enhancer 💻

Name: YouTube Enhancer 💻
Rating: 4.4211 (57 reviews)
Author: VampireChicken

🚀 Enhance your YouTube experience with this powerful browser extension. Features include customizable volume control, automatic quality settings, playback speed adjustments, volume boost, and more. Build from scratch with easy steps.

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Transform your YouTube viewing with YouTube Enhancer, a powerful browser extension designed to elevate your experience. Customize volume controls, set automatic video quality, adjust playback speed, and apply volume boosts effortlessly. This open-source project, licensed under MIT, invites enthusiasts to build or contribute on GitHub. Join the active community on Discord and support development through Ko-fi to keep improvements flowing.

Note: This extension is independent and not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

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Daily users:

Rating:

Version:

1.27.0 Last updated: 2024-10-13

Version code:

5824708

Creation date:

2023-11-11

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
webRequest
storage
tabs
scripting
https://www.youtube.com/*

Size:

1.54MB

Email:

su*****@yt-enhancr.dev

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2025-07-07

Ranking

# 1,309 ▼ 18

Other rankings

#198 in Appearance ▼ 3

#205 in Photos, Music & Videos ▼ 5

#7 in enhance keyword 42

#47 in build keyword 8 ▼ 1

#75 in youtube keyword 87 ▲ 1

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Other platforms

YouTube Enhancer (v1.27.0)

1,000 4.63

(8)

YouTube Enhancer (v1.27.0)

2,001 4.00

(4)

Publisher Change History

2024-01-31: Email was changed from na*****@gmail.com to su*****@yt-enhancr.dev

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User reviews

Users appreciate YouTube Enhancer as a strong, open-source alternative to previous popular extensions, offering useful features like automatic quality, theater mode, and volume control. However, common frustrations include missing popup player functionality, settings not being saved across sessions, unclear or inaccessible controls, and issues with playlist visibility and audio bugs. Despite these drawbacks, many users value the active development and complementary features to other extensions.

Pros

Acts as a good alternative to the previous "Enhancer for YouTube" extension that stopped working.
Provides useful features like automatic video quality adjustment, automatic theater mode, and multiple customizable buttons around the player.
Open-source and actively developed with prompt bug fixes and improvements.
Enhances YouTube experience by offering volume control and theme customization.
Compliments other enhancer extensions well, allowing combined use for added functionality.

Cons

Lacks a popup player feature that lets you watch videos while scrolling through comments, which was present in previous extensions.
Settings often reset upon restarting Firefox, including volume level and preferences not being retained.
No clear or intuitive way to access controls or menus, leading to user confusion on functionality.
Displays occasional bugs such as audio not working in multiple tabs and volume boost settings changing unexpectedly.
No option to disable playlist hiding, which affects autoplay music and user experience. Restarting Firefox does not restore playlists properly.

Recent reviews

A great alternative to the "Enhancer for youtube" that stopped working. The only important thing missing at this time is the popup player that appears as you scroll down to read the comments. Thank you for making this.

by Ge*****, 2025-04-28

I do really like this... However, at the risk of messing things up, I'm actually using two separate "Enhancer" extensions at once, and the other one I like even better. Why then this? Because it's not perfect either, and I think they complement each others nicely. I use Enhancer for YouTube™ as my primary enhancer, I use it for theme, automatic video quality (separate for regular, fullscreen, popup and mini players), and automatic comment sorting, and to add some buttons under the video player - mostly. And then I use this mostly to add more buttons inside the video player. However, if the other one ever becomes unavailable (and it was for a while at one point), then I'll use this one for much more. Anyway, both are awesome - and I thank you for making this, and even more for making it FOSS!! <3

by ro*****, 2025-04-09

Great little add-on for Firefox. Still giving it 5 stars despite the playlist annoyance. There's no setting to disable the add-on from hiding playlists which means no auto-play music. I can disable the add-on, but I still have to restart Firefox to see playlists again. Edit: Disabling the add-on actually does nothing even with restarting. I wish a setting to view playlists was a thing.

by ca*****, 2025-03-13

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YouTube Enhancer 💻 requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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