YouTube Skip Silence

Name: YouTube Skip Silence
Author: Timothy

By: Timothy

Automatically skips silent periods in YouTube videos.

This add-on was removed from Firefox Add-ons Store on 2025-12-12

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Features & Capabilities

Automatically skip silent parts of YouTube videos, saving you time without losing context.

🔇 SKIP THE SILENCE ON YOUTUBE

YouTube Skip Silence is a simple, lightweight browser extension that automatically detects and skips silent segments in YouTube videos.

Stop wasting time waiting for the speaker to start talking! Our extension analyzes the timestamps of a video's auto-generated captions to instantly find and jump over dead air.

✨ KEY FEATURES

Automatic Silence Skip: Instantly jump past sections of a video with no detected speech.
Customizable Skipping: Fine-tune the behavior to suit your viewing style:
- Post-Speech Delay: Adds a short, natural pause after a line of speech before initiating a skip.
- Pre-Speech Offset: Configures the skip to land a moment before the next line of speech, preventing abrupt audio cuts.
Minimalist Interface: Quickly enable/disable the feature and control minimum skip duration from a simple popup menu.

💡 HOW IT WORKS

The extension works entirely client-side (in your browser) by listening for the video's subtitle data. It does not analyze audio or require any external servers. This makes it fast and private.

💻 OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

We believe in transparency and community. YouTube Skip Silence is 100% open source. You can check the full code, contribute, or submit issues on GitHub:

https://github.com/kuronekozero/youtube-skip-silence

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

Timothy

Daily users:

Version:

1.0 Last updated: 2025-10-05

Version code:

6045902

Creation date:

2025-10-02

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Permissions:

Content scripts matches:

www.youtube.com

Size:

129.63KB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2025-12-12

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Developed by:

Timothy

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-skip-silence/

Website:

https://github.com/kuronekozero/youtube-skip-silence

Is YouTube Skip Silence Safe?

Risk impact

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YouTube Skip Silence requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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YouTube Skip Silence may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.