# YouTube Force Max Quality

> Forces your preferred video quality and theatre mode on every YouTube video. Supports all quality levels from 144p to 4K, with optional Premium enhanced bitrate (itag 356/721) for YouTube Premium subscribers.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-force-max-quality`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** yowmamasita
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 250
- **Weekly downloads:** 32
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-09
- **First published:** 2026-02-07
- **Size:** 19 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-force-max-quality/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/yowmamasita/yt-force-max](https://github.com/yowmamasita/yt-force-max)

## Description

Features:
- Set preferred quality from 144p to Max (highest available)
- Automatic theatre mode activation
- Premium enhanced bitrate support
- Handles YouTube SPA navigation seamlessly
- View detailed playback info (codec, itag, resolution, bandwidth)
- Works on Firefox and Firefox for Android

## Rankings

- #7,415 — Overall
- #11 — hd quality
- #11 — quality
- #14 — force
- #64 — premium
- #146 — handle

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/youtube-force-max-quality)