# Youtube Player Improved

> Take control of YouTube: force quality, set start volume, block volume scroll, mute hover previews, mini player, auto-theater, stop Shorts looping and scrolling, hide cards, control captions, and keep original titles, descriptions and chapters.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-player-improved`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** voitek
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 1.3.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2026-08-04
- **Size:** 41 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-player-improved/)

## Description

A comprehensive toolkit that gives you back control over YouTube's player. Eleven toggleable features in a single popup — no account, no tracking, just a better YouTube experience.

Features

🎬 Preferred quality
Forces your chosen resolution (144p–4K or Auto) on every video. When the exact resolution isn't available or is Premium-locked, it picks the closest lower free tier — never drops back to Auto. The settings menu runs hidden, so you never see a panel pop open in the corner.

🔊 Default volume level
Sets the volume once when a video starts. After that, the volume is fully under your control — no continuous enforcement, no fighting with the slider.

🚫 Block volume scroll
Scrolling the mouse wheel over the volume control no longer changes the volume. Prevents those annoying accidental jumps while you're reading comments near the player.

🔇 Mute hover previews
Videos that start playing when you hover over a thumbnail stay muted. On by default — silence the previews without giving up the preview itself.

🔁 Prevent Shorts from looping
Pauses a Short on its last frame instead of replaying it forever. Off by default.

🖥 Auto-expand player
Automatically switches every video into theater mode.

💬 Captions & subtitles control
Keeps captions permanently off (or permanently on), overriding YouTube's auto-detected preference so they stop turning themselves on.

📌 Mini player
When you scroll down past the video to read comments, it smoothly detaches into a small floating window — size (320×180 up to 1280×720) and corner both configurable. Keeps a stable 16:9 shape for the entire video. Scroll back up, or click the close button, and it snaps back.

❌ Hide info cards & end screens
Removes the "i" card teasers during playback and the suggestion grid at the end of videos. 

🌐 No translations
Keeps creator content in its original language: watch-page titles, tab title and tooltips, feed/search titles (including Shorts and notifications), the watch-page description, feed/search description snippets, chapter names (chip, seekbar pill, chapters panel). YouTube UI chrome (view counts, buttons) is left untouched — only creator content is restored.

🖱 Prevent accidental Shorts scrolling
Requires a deliberate scroll (crossing a threshold) to switch Shorts. One-notch mouse wheel bumps and light trackpad swipes no longer switch videos. Comments, header, and side panels keep their normal scrolling.

## Rankings

- #49,825 — Overall
- #81 — improve
- #234 — player

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.youtube-nocookie.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`
- `m.youtube.com`
- `youtube.com`
- `www.youtube-nocookie.com`
- `youtube-nocookie.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, youtube-nocookie.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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