# YouTube Grid Simple

> Customize YouTube Home/feed layout: grid control (2–8 columns), hide Shorts, and hide sponsored tiles.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-grid-simple`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** GGyo245
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 36
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Version:** 0.1.11
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-23
- **First published:** 2026-02-27
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-grid-simple/)

## Description

A simple Firefox extension that lets you set YouTube grid columns (2–8) on Home and main feed pages, hide Shorts shelves, and hide in-feed sponsored/ad tiles.

Release notes (0.1.11)
<ul><li>Fixed a bug where the Subscriptions page shelf hiding could miss English Relevance/Latest sections</li><li>Restore the documented five-language support for Subscriptions page shelf hiding (Korean, English, Japanese, German, Russian)</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.10)
<ul><li>Hide the Shorts, Relevance, and Latest shelves on the Subscriptions page</li><li>Improve SPA handling for Subscriptions page shelf hiding</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.9)
<ul><li>Fixed a bug where Home navigation could reset the stored column setting back to the default 4-column layout</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.8)
<ul><li>Apply the grid layout across YouTube feed-style pages, including Home variants such as /?bp=...</li><li>Exclude non-feed pages and the You page (/feed/you) from grid styling</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.7)
<ul><li>Hide Russian breaking news shelves (for example, "Срочные новости").</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.6)
<ul><li>Hide German breaking news shelves (for example, "Eilmeldungen").</li><li>Hide the top masthead sponsored video section on supported pages.</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.5)
<ul><li>Show a refresh hint when the popup cannot connect to the YouTube page</li></ul>
Release notes (0.1.4)
<ul><li>Limit the add-on to YouTube Home and main feed pages only (reduced match patterns).</li><li>Match the popup UI theme to YouTube dark/light mode.</li><li>Hide in-feed sponsored/ad tiles on supported pages.</li><li>Polish the popup UI (cleaner button, no reserved status space, clearer slider fill).</li></ul>
Source code: 
<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8d59cff303f7c89584b9f7e4b7fb708bff0017938c3e09920e053c8d0238da5a/https%3A//github.com/GGyo245/firefox-youtube-grid-columns" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/GGyo245/firefox-youtube-grid-columns</a>

## Rankings

- #18,843 — Overall
- #29 — grid
- #31 — column
- #196 — simple

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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