# YouTubeUtils

> Play videos at the highest quality, dynamically resize video player, 4x playback speed, extra hotkeys to loop video and autoplay, and more! Works on mobile, desktop, and embed videos.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtubeutils`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Andres Rodriguez
- **Category:** appearance,social-communication,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 847
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (20 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.14.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-19
- **First published:** 2022-11-24
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtubeutils/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Dosx001/YouTubeUtils/issues](https://github.com/Dosx001/YouTubeUtils/issues)

## Description

YouTubeUtils is a powerful Chrome extension designed to optimize your YouTube viewing experience. It lets you play videos at the highest quality available and allows dynamic resizing of the video player to fit your preferences. Users can speed up playback up to 4 times faster, making it ideal for quickly watching tutorials or lectures.

In addition, YouTubeUtils includes useful hotkeys such as 'e' to expand or collapse video descriptions, 'p' to toggle autoplay, 'q' to dismiss YouTube popups, and 'r' to loop videos seamlessly. This extension works smoothly across mobile, desktop, and embedded videos, offering consistent and enhanced control over your YouTube sessions.

## Rankings

- #3,608 — Overall
- #329 — Games & Entertainment
- #68 — embed
- #120 — expand
- #124 — replay
- #148 — resize

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Overall, users praise YouTubeUtils for reliably looping videos (especially on mobile) and for delivering the requested YouTube utilities with minimal bloat. It’s often described as the only working loop option for mobile YouTube and is viewed positively when functioning. Recurrent downsides include intermittent reliability requiring page refreshes, a fixed playback speed that can't be changed via YouTube's controls, usability issues on desktop Firefox, and concerns about broad permission requests. Common requests include more speed flexibility and additional UI tweaks.

### Pros

- Loops YouTube videos reliably, and is the only working option for looping on mobile.
- Generally works well and delivers the core YouTube utilities users want.
- Positive feedback about the developer and the effort.

### Cons

- Reliability issues: often requires refreshing the page for the extension to function.
- Playback speed is effectively fixed by the extension and cannot be overridden by YouTube's player.
- Not reliably functional on desktop Firefox.
- Broad permissions requests raise privacy concerns (access to all websites/tabs).

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