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Hey, I love this extension, just wanted to highlight an issue I've found: The autoplay doesn't work for me. I guess the Problem lies here:

I'm from germany and YouTube is using german aria-labels for me. Which means that "Next video" would be "Nächstes Video" for me. I don't know which selector would be better, as the buttons all seem to share classes etc.

When autoplay is on, instead of going to the next video, it randomly jumps the next video and goes to the video after that. This happens very regualarly after openeing shorts on a new tab and the first video ends. It also happens randomly after that. I am using Brave.

I am having a problem with the extension that causes the volume to suddenly increase during the first miliseconds of video playback, I think that only happens when the volume is too low. I'll add yt video to show the problem.

https://youtu.be/8OOiSzueT3U

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Error as seen in devtools console:
content-script.js:373 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'children')
at content-script.js:373:57
Chrome Version 115.0.5790.170

Now when this extension have been removed from Chrome, I would like to know how to install this as an unpacked extension.

in the manifest.json

   "browser_action": {
        "default_popup": "popup.html"
    },

requires manifest version of 2 or lower

I usually use youtube in light theme but timestamp is invisible. I have to drag cursor over to make it visible.
Can you fix it?

Little request, would you be able to add a feature to automatically skip or block their channel with 'do not recommend channel' you tube short videos when they're below 500 likes.
There's alot of random kid roblox videos appear every 10+ shorts with 0views 12likes, that are always annoying to manually 'do not recommend channel' to.

Would be an awesome feature to add!

why cant we know when a short was uploaded? usually this is my main criterion to decide if i want to watch a video.
if there is no way to get to this information, an idea would be to use the time of the oldest comment.

I have a problem with current key bindings, there's a conflict with another extension. It would be nice if you add the ability to assign hotkeys.

The extension works fine when downloaded from the web store. But doesn't work when I add the extension manually from source. I don't think this code is the same version as the one on the web store.

im used to press space for pause from any other player. shorts skip the video on space. very annoying. please add an option do change that behavior.

Please add an option to automatically open comments. Auto scroll is GREAT! Just sometimes i'd like to read the comments while doing so :) - Mikagu (Google Form)

Hi! First off, love your extension and I find it SO USEFUL! THANK YOU for making it and keeping it free.

Would it be doable to add an option for FULLSCREEN Shorts viewing in the form of a button and a keyboard shortcut (perhaps the already establised 'F' key) ?? I think the extension is already great as it is but in my personal use case, wish there was a way to fullscreen. Thank you!

I have received an email regarding the extension that it violates the YouTube Shorts Logo trademark (oops). As such we need to update the logo asap to avoid suspension from Google.

As such, if anyone is interested in taking up the task of redesigning the logo please let me know, thank you!

awesome job!

Perhaps we can switch over to use tools such as CRXJS, convert to Typescript and use framework like React? It may help improve the efficiency of the development. It would take some time to rebuild from scratch though.

Possible to add a save state for the volume for the next short video? thanks

Similar to how "YouTube enhancer" extension have option to set a default playback speed it would be cool if we could have similar feature where we could configure pre-default settings such as playback Speed etc. which will automatically be applied to YouTube short player when we open it.

I would assume this is not implemented because up and down are already in use for going to the next/previous short.
I'd like to suggest having the option to use left and right arrow keys like L and J

Can you add an option to change the time it takes to go to the next video? (e.g instantly switch to the next/back videos without the scroll animation)
Also the option to redefine "back/next video" keys so it could be defined to W and S instead of up and down to let the other hand be positioned on the mouse.

great plugin, just needs the , / . hotkeys for frame-by-frame navigation, which should be easy to implement.
not sure how YT does it but i guess rewind/fwd by 0.04 seconds or so should do (1/25fps)

Not sure how easy this is to pull off but would be nice if you could replace the thumbnails on a channel's shorts overview page with the actual (autoplaying) videos on mouseover, after like a 2 second delay or so. Same behaviour as on video overview and search page basically.

What do you think?

after playing 8 to 20 shorts the volume slider disappear and shortcut keys (+ and -) stops working.

Perhaps I am trying the wrong thing but the description says "Scroll on the speed and time indicator to change its speed and seek." I am trying to control the speed of the short without using the hotkey buttons and it does not appear to work.

Hovering over the speed button and scrolling gives the same behavior as normal for shorts, moving up and down the videos.

I'm using v2.3.0 on Firefox.

When having two tabs oppened, one with regular yt video and then in the second one entering the shorts sometimes volume resets to 100%. Also that issue works vice-versa when tab with shorts is paused and when oppening new regular yt video that regular video volume also resets to 100%.
Also when that issue happens then there's not possible to adjust the volume in shorts because when hovering mouseover the short's video options to adjust volume doesn't appear.

Maybe: it may be colliding with other extensions: Enhanced for Youtube; Return Dislike YT; YouTube NonStop.

Browser: Firefox 116.0.3 (64-bit) (Windows 10)
Extension Version: 2.8.1

Would it be possible to have an option to have square edges on the Shorts video player instead? I really do not like how it looks, and although it is a small tiny amount, it hides part of the video. This would also make it MUCH easier to scrub through the video.

when clicking shorts from homepage or when putting shorts url directly to browser, it automatically skips the video when the like count is low.

is it possible to add another extra option to not skip clicked shorts/url input?

thanks.

I realize this has been considered since there is a message, however I want to provide a reason why I would find it useful
I want to bind:
"Increase speed (+0.25x)" -> [CTRL]+[UPARROW],
"Decrease speed (-0.25x)" -> [CTRL]+[DOWNARROW],
"Reset speed" to -> [CTRL]+[LEFTARROW]

This is desirable since UPARROW and DOWNARROW are already primary controls and means that you wouldn't have to move your hand.

It would also be nice to set the speed increment to a preferd value, E.g 0.1

can you add it to change the seconds on how much you fast forward/rewind?

Reproduce steps:

1. Open any YouTube shorts
2. Type J or L in the search bar

Give users an option to turn off auto opening comments

Sometimes refresh fixes it. sometimes not.
Hope you can reproduce. On this vid refresh didn't fix it:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K4T_PBvEw8s

A keybind to play the shorts from beginning, potential keybinds: J

It was working fine last time I used it which I think was yesterday. Only thing that still works is pressing K(pause). On some shorts it works if I refresh the page but when I switch short it stops working again.

EDIT: I found a fix of a sort, if you press anywhere next to the video then it starts working again but you have to do it on every short.

An option to manually disable and enable each of the options offered by the extension would be nice. (Submitted anonymously on Google Form)

One user suggests the setting to set the video quality of the YouTube shorts video, though I'm not sure if this is even feasible as YouTube seems to always set the quality to auto and does not expose any API to change video quality manually.

It would be great if someone can check the feasibility of this feature.

1. It would be amazing to have a working seekbar in addition to skipping 5 seconds.
2. Shorts doesn't have the option to save to a playlist. A button for that would also be great

Browser: Firefox 110.0
OS: Linux Mint 21.1
Extension Version: 2.1.1

Basically "nothing works" (tm). None of the set shortcuts does anything aside of raising the following error in console:

TypeError: can't convert null to object 2 [content-script.js:26:39](moz-extension://5c1cbd0a-0138-48dd-b358-dbbdc7a878e2/content-script.js)
    <anonym> moz-extension://5c1cbd0a-0138-48dd-b358-dbbdc7a878e2/content-script.js:26

which is:

for (const [cmd, keybind] of Object.entries(keybinds)) if (key === keybind) command = cmd;

So yeah the yt-keybinds object the code depends on is not existing.

Trying to change the keybindings does absolutely nothing. Not even an error is raised in console.

Solution:
Manually create the yt-keybinds key in localstorage with the values:

{"Decrease Speed":"u","Decrease Volume":"-","Increase Speed":"o","Increase Volume":"+","Reset Speed":"i","Seek Backward":"j","Seek Forward":"l","Toggle Mute":"m"}

That does not fix changing the keybindings, but makes the extension usable at least.

I dont want some of the keys to attach to that extension. It might cause conflict with other extensions and programs on Windows that uses the same keys.

Everytime I write a new comment to a short it randomly skips through the video in the background or changes its speed. Please disable the hotkeys while the comment dialog is open.

Ability to Automaticly scroll for you when a short ends with a button press visible somewhere on screen or on an extension menu dropout

The volume slider on youtube music is being moved to the far right of the screen for some reason. Turning off the extension fixes this issue and moves the volume slider back to its correct spot. I'm using the Firefox version btw.

The extension's text become black in color in dark theme, causing bad legibility as per image shown below.

The way I am able to reproduce it is to load the extension unpacked, click refresh, and open the extension pop up twice. Repeatedly opening and closing the extension seems to result in the text becoming black some of the time.

The more you try to skip to a later time, the larger the error.

Also, when this bug occurs, the timestamp tooltip that appears when hovering does not seem to appear

Per title, could be done with #62 in v3

The problem is that using the "key" of the KeyboardEvent works correctly only within the same keyboard layout, so, for example, if the English layout is set, "key" will be "u", but if the Russian one is set, it will be "г". Therefore, it is better to use a universal key code for key bindings, which will be "KeyU" for any keyboard layout.

On first launch, all the keybinds option does not appear and you have to click on "Reset keybinds" in order for them to appear

The addon works pretty well, except for the volume controls. They just don't work at all.

The volume slider that is shown in the image is just not there, and pressing "+" or "-" does nothing.

If it helps, I'm using Better YT Shorts 2.4.0 in Firefox 114.0.2 (64-bit) on Windows 11 22621.1848
They seem all be the latest versions as of now.