YouTube Redux

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I use this extension in Opera and Firefox both. Seems to work OK in Opera, not working that well in Firefox. I originally got it and V3 extension to get back the old layout of YouTube - the player at the top, comments below left, suggested videos below right (when in the wide player mode). V3 is all kinds of buggy so I don't use it. Except when a page for some reason, I don't have any idea WHY, switches my youtube back to the 'new layout'. I use V3 in firefox to restore the old layout, then disable it, because it lets you click the 'see more' button just fine for comments, but on the 'recommended videos' list on the right, sooner or later, it hangs up and the spinning circle icon just spins and spins and spins. I don't use this extension in Firefox and I only give it a rating of 3 for 2 reasons. If that could be fixed, I would give it a 4 or 5. First is, as I said before, in Firefox this extension makes youtube behave kind of unstable/buggy. The second reason I don't use this extension in either browser is because of a behavior/layout shortcoming in the recommended videos list on the right. Which is something V3 DOES get right. Before on YouTube, the link to each new video included the number of views, channel the video was in, age (how long ago the video was posted), that's all I can remember but there could have been additional things it had in the link. So, when I used another extension, Linkclump, to copy the links from the suggested video list to save to an HTML file for later viewing, on the old layout the link would have all of this additional information in it, by default or 'natively' from YouTube. This feature is very important to me, helps me know more about the video links, for picking the ones I want to watch from the HTML list of video links on youtube that I saved. V3 restores this behavior, so when I use that extension to restore the 'old layout', I get this additional information in the link, and I can pick videos from the HTML page easier and pull up what I want. YouTube Redux does NOT restore that behavior to the links for recommended videos. So, I just get the link to the video (with the title showing as the link of course so not just the plain link, so that part is good). The instability I am talking about for YouTube Redux when using it for the YouTube site is that, simply put, it doesn't restore the old layout either for me. I can refresh the page 100 times, I don't get back the old layout. It sticks to the new layout, and changes any other youtube vids in other tabs to the new layout automatically. So it doesn't seem to be working for me at all in Firefox. If we could figure out why it isn't restoring the old YouTube layout, and if you could somehow put this additional information back into the link title itself like YouTube used to do (title, length of time of the video, channel it is in, number of views, and the time it was posted to youtube [12 hours ago, 5 days ago, 3 months ago, you get the picture]), then I would love to start using this extension again.