# YouTube Full Windowed

> This extension adds the ability to toggle a full windowed mode in YouTube website

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-full-windowed`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dennis
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 314
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (40 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-12-13
- **Size:** 17 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-full-windowed/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/darco1991](https://github.com/darco1991)

## Description

YouTube Full Windowed is a handy Chrome extension that lets you toggle a full windowed mode on the YouTube website. With intuitive hotkeys, SHIFT + W toggles full windowed mode for immersive viewing, while ESC exits this mode effortlessly.

This extension enhances your video-watching experience by maximizing the YouTube player within your browser without going into fullscreen, allowing you to multitask efficiently. Support further development by donating via PayPal or explore the project on GitHub.

## Rankings

- #6,506 — Overall
- #24 — fullhd
- #40 — paypal
- #68 — windows
- #92 — pull
- #148 — donation

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.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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## Review summary

Users broadly praise YouTube Full Windowed for being simple, effective, and capable of fullscreen video without tab juggling. Several reports note it generally works well and matches what they’re looking for. But recurring issues reduce reliability: can't scroll in windowed mode; exiting to theater view instead of default; hotkey conflicts with YouTube shortcuts (spacebar, W); pillarboxing cropping the top and UI not resizing; and lack of persistence across new tabs. Fixes in these areas would improve consistency.

### Pros

- Simple and effective.
- Fullscreen windowed mode without needing to double-click to switch tabs.
- Generally reliable and works well.
- Positive overall feedback (amazing work / exactly what users wanted).

### Cons

- Cannot scroll in windowed mode (scroll handling is broken).
- Exiting windowed mode sometimes goes to theater mode instead of default view.
- Hotkeys conflict with YouTube shortcuts (e.g., W toggling; Spacebar issues when typing).
- Pillarboxing/cropping at the top of the video and UI not scaling with the window.
- Lacks persistence across new tabs (windowed state does not persist across tabs).

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