YouTube in HD (720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p)

Name: YouTube in HD (720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p)
Rating: 4.2761 (163 reviews)
Author: James Fray

Watch YouTube in the full-HD quality or the highest available one

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Enhance your YouTube experience with the "YouTube in HD" Chrome extension. This tool automatically sets videos to your chosen high-definition quality — from 720p up to 2160p (4K) — ensuring you watch content in the best resolution available. It intelligently avoids changing quality if HD is already set, and you can customize supported qualities or disable frame rates above 30 FPS for optimal performance.

Key features include default high-quality selection, prevention of unwanted quality changes, extensive resolution options, and frame rate control for smoother playback. Ideal for users who want consistent HD quality without buffering interruptions or those facing browser performance issues with high frame rate video. Join thousands enjoying seamless HD streaming on YouTube with this easy-to-use extension.

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Version:

0.4.9 Last updated: 2025-02-27

Version code:

5900622

Creation date:

2014-11-21

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
scripting

Host permissions:

*://www.youtube.com/*
*://www.youtube-nocookie.com/*

Size:

73.07K

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 1,367 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#100 in Games & Entertainment ▼ 2

#150 in Social & Communication ▼ 2

#210 in Appearance

#220 in Photos, Music & Videos ▼ 2

#30 in quality keyword 31

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User reviews

Users appreciate that the add-on automates setting preferred YouTube video quality, saving time and maintaining HD playback. However, many report it fails to consistently enforce selected resolutions, sometimes defaulting to lower quality than desired. Some users experience bugs with resolution fallback behaviors and broken YouTube functionality after updates. Options to configure the add-on can be unintuitive, reducing usability. Overall, it is helpful but has reliability issues that impact user experience.

Pros

Automatically sets preferred video quality, saving manual adjustment.
Works well once options are customized properly.
Useful for maintaining high video quality without drops during playback.
Simple and convenient to use for users wanting HD video.
Provides ability to enforce video quality settings.

Cons

Does not always enforce the selected resolution, sometimes plays lower quality than selected (e.g., set 1080p but plays 720p).
Has bugs with resolution fallback, e.g., selecting 1440p but video drops to 480p when only 1080p available.
Causes player functionality issues such as lagging, page reloads, or broken YouTube front page after updates.
Options are sometimes unavailable or hard to find, requiring pinning the addon to toolbar.
Sometimes sets video quality incorrectly when preferred resolution is not available, leading to poor user experience.

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This is a pretty great addon but it doesn't seem to work with the 1080p premium encode.

by Firefox user 15022373, 2024-10-02

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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube in HD (720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p) requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Request access to the following domains: {{requestedDomains}}

Risk likelihood

YouTube in HD (720p, 1080p, 1440p, 2160p) is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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