# YouTube Tweak - Boost Your YouTube Experience

> Packed with all the features you want: lock video quality, speed buttons, show commenter names, auto-translate comments, hide distractions, and more.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-tweak`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Dark495
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 118
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-25
- **First published:** 2025-11-01
- **Size:** 1.14 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-tweak/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/xlch88/YouTubeTweak/issues](https://github.com/xlch88/YouTubeTweak/issues)

## Description

YouTube Tweak is an open-source extension for power users, delivering fine-grained control over the YouTube experience. It unlocks features like automatic video quality locking, extended speed controls, per-channel speed memory, and a cleaner player by hiding most controls and end-screen recommendations. It also enables comment enhancements such as displaying commenter nicknames and automatic comment translation.

Additional tools include homepage layout control, experimental ad blocking, multi-language support, and settings import/export for easy configuration transfer. The project is actively developed and welcomes community contributions and translations via GitHub.

## Rankings

- #10,713 — Overall
- #97 — experience
- #122 — boost
- #203 — quality

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `*.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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-tweak)