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/ImprovedTube/ a powerful but lightweight extension,
to enrich your video experience & enable your content selection.

Top ~ 60 g 'Might be the only YouTube Extension you'll ever need' 'enhances YouTube in meaningful ways' 'Strong Add-on, full control. Yet clear & easy' Thanks ♡ to our contributors, Alan Tan, Raszpl translators (+ wiki-authors? +donators?)

Original introduction

«Improve YouTube!»   

/ImprovedTube/ is a strong & lightweight extension! - 80 features / the only one of a kind!

Since 2012 we have gradually been adding lightweight features, while keeping up with Youtube changes. (throughout the years we witnessed the birth & fall of other promising & open YouTube Extensions 1, 2, ... ) Today adding features can be easier & so motivating as there are 500 000 users. [👪Join us].

Spread the word 📣

        - Why arent there millions of users yet? We didn't write a guide or manual, let alone ads. This project can "fly much higher" through your word of mouth & eventually enable us to work on all wishes & immediate fixes around the clock🌱

Contributing

For more info on how to contribute, see the contribution wiki.

Please join us! And let's re-define "extensions"! Why are they often unfunded & neglected?

🏷️Roadmap Find developers, patreons All bugs, many wishes Documentation, tooltips Tags for our search (multilanguage) Continuously integrate awesome code: YCS Userscripts, Nova?, yrfilters or more(i p r o,..) Smart Player-buttons for all <video> Clean YT's DOM? (+avoid CPU-rendering) Smart filtering /discovery, YT.js, M, D Integrate data #1452, SB / NB etc. Full-page GUI: History & Dashboard Consider m.youtube.com (grey-out some) Ask Samsung Browser to list us Translators        ♡  🌎 ✔️EN en_GB : Korbough Proofreaders:___ (You?) CN(zh_CN) : niceRAM ausers CN(zh_TW) : Still34 water903 suitangi ES : Kioraga Compvictor dimateos DMCS20 HI : monishamandal02 BRAVO68WEB FR : leghort Eymiks Solvabl AR : Raayib BN : BRAVO68WEB RU : qweered alexesprit pt_BR : dthiago Mike-Correa DavidBrazSan unnamed-orbert :) PT : DrNopt unnamed-orbert ID : Bagus23 A.Muttaqin DE : Termuellinator css-smueller JA : utuhiro78 TR : onurdumangoz decimaldreamer VN : zeref-dragneel KO : msc9533 LYHyoung (Iranian) Persian : AC Lover IT : urfausto FedericoSlongo ❌TH Thai : ______(You?) PL : FluidExtractor ❌Ukrainian : (You?) ❌Hebrew : (You?) ❌Czech : (You?) SE : KiloBravoBFE NL : aron-hoogeveen Vistaus RO : hateofhades SI : AshenNethsara EL(Greek) : molyvius ❌DA Danish : (You?) ❌Hungarian : (You?) ❌FI Finnish : (You?) ❌Serbian : (You?) ❌Slovak : (You?) ❌BG Bulgarian : (You?) no_NB : comradekingu HR(Croatian) : mbeara ❌Croatian : (You?) NO : master3395 comradekingu SK : bbc-s ❌Catalan, Valencian : (You?) ❌Estonian : (You?)

[Help us Translate] (=here), or on ​Crowdin ...Many popular languages are spoken more / written less, but please add yours! (even if just a few words for fun.) Urdu Nigerian Pidgin (English Creole) Western-&Eastern-Punjabi Marathi(Indo-European)Telugu Tamil Yue Chinese (incl. Cantonese) Tagalog(New name: Filipino) Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) Hausa Egyptian Spoken Arabic SwahiliJavaneseKannadaGujarati Amharic Bhojpuri Min Nan Chinese (incl. Hokkien), Jin Chinese Yoruba Hakka Chinese BurmeseMalayalam Spoken Arabic: Sudanese Algerian Lingala Malaysian Malay Combined these have more 1st-language speakers than English + Spanish + Hindi. And more 2nd-language speakers than Chinese + Hindi + Spanish. (And there are so many more: https://www.ethnologue.com/) [Help us Translate] (=here), or on ​Crowdin

💡 Vision for Open-Source Efficiency: 🌱 Auto Contributors

(Compare: Wikipedia Bots. Would especially help medium-size projects.)
(+community-list of regEx?)

💡 Vision for the (tweaking-/userStyle-/"modding-")Community:

We can optimize things for the world, greatly prioritized: Crowd Fixes
( "insteada just tweakin@home like Sisyphos" )

💡 Got great ideas?

Please notify us if you have relavant (volunteer) work beyond this project! (or ideas@improvedtube.com)

• github/Wish-Factory

🎁Our Extensions:

Superb: History Manager
Global / Filters: unFreeze me Dark Mode
Research: Ultimate Regex("Ctrl+F+Shift") (Regex Replace)
Browser: Custom user agent auto-scroll
Video / Media: (integrate them in this extension please)
Looper Frame by Frame unBlob (Equalizer)
Home: (Start Page tabs ), TextEditor , ToDo
Development: Satus (Our JS library) | WebGL.js - WebGL Library
endless grid, CodeEditor, TE, Viscum Player - video.js?

👩‍💻

"Behind the scenes"

Do you need to run a popular extension, site, app or repo?
We'd love to help meaningful projects@improvedtube.com

🏝⛵🏕 To-Do / Maintenance:

🏷️ Labels

(sorted/Filtered = Dynamic To-Do lists)

0. [ ] Bugs🐞 (we try to offer some bug bounty. Please ask .)
1. [ ] Documentation, wiki, screenshots, video, ...

We need to help people to learn as easily as possible about our 90+ features. (Drafts welcome. This can become 🛈ToolTips in the extension!")
+[ ]Updating translations +[ ]proofreading eng

2. [ ]Plans / Specifications 🧩
   &    [ ] organizational Discussions
3. [ ] Feature Requests🌟🧚 - sometimes easy / CSS
     + [ ]  Wishes in discussions

0.1. [ ] Tidy: (Rest/Unsorted 'issues')

Further reading: "Contributing without programming" & "Our CSS, JavaScript, json" ( outdated) (Newcomers are welcome tho! We review all edits & love to collaborate)

Features 🧰⋮⚙️🎛️☕🎧🎞️🎬🔊📈🎨⏯️

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLfff7Kw_Xc

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https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/wiki/Manual

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• Fit Video to window, default resolution or pop-up player
• Hiding distractions
• Youtube Themes, Colors & night schedule
• Video Repeat-, screenshot-, rotate-buttons
• Customizable hotkeys / shortcuts

[List of Features]

📟 "ImprovedTube Ticker 2022" /Pinned Issues

❔ImprovedTube controls in, under or around the video player or cursor.
❔Meaningful/Most similar extensions? Social-Fixer, Youtube Enhancer, Simplify, ....
📟 We are focused on updates, bugs & UX but please keep up your wishes for Features!♡
📟 Enjoy our projects: global Dark Mode, to tweak CSS everywhere + Theme engine in the making, ...
📟 2021: Firefox, Edge, Opera, Whale added (please try&rate)

📜Historic Introduction

ImprovedTube,       is an extension we built to refine your YouTube experience. A powerful one-stop-shop with many features to enhance YouTube, yet liteweight. Be it a larger player or more tidy / studious YouTube UI, hiding distractions. And there was so much left to build and are many clever features to come still.        ImprovedTube is designed with our own UI library: Satus (to manage your settings efficiently & create familiar apps/'cousins easily.)       Please spread the word: ImprovedTube is the only project of it's kind, because other open Youtube Extensions resigned. No other project provides so much CSS to adjust a website🦄.

Some ImprovedTube features:

• Video quality
• Themes and customisation
• Repeat-, screenshot-, rotate-buttons
• Pop-up player
• Ads management
• Hide Cards and Annotations
• Customise video page appearance (always expand description, hide related videos etc.)
• Channel page customisations
• Customisation of hotkeys/shortcuts
• Statistics
• Volume mixer Full list

🔧 Install from source 1.) Download & extract the [latest🧪version] or [release]

• Safari:

  • 2.) Issue #494

• Chrome / Chromium / Brave / Edge / Vivaldi

  • 2.) Go to your Browser's Extensions page (chrome://extensions/)
  • 3.) Activate Developer mode
  • 4.) Click the Load unpacked button & Select the extracted folder

• Firefox / LibreWolf / Waterfox / IceCat

  • 2.) Go to Add-ons (about:addons)
  • 3.) Click on Extensions tab
  • 4.) Click on Debug Add-ons (about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox)
  • 5.) Click on Load Temporary Add-on…
  • 6.) Select the manifest.json file from unzipped folder

Web browser support

Brave	Chromium	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Vivaldi
0.52+	49.0+	49.0+	79.0+	44.0+	36.0+	x.x+	1.0+

🔧 Installing from source

1.) Download & extract the [latest🧪version] or [release]

• Safari:

  • 2.) Build yourself
    • OR
  • 2.) Right-click ImprovedTube.app and select the "Open" option from the drop down menu.
    • 3.) Run this extension in your Applications folder
    • 4.) Open System Settings, click Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click the Open Anyway button (Allow App Store and identified developers first)
    • 5.) Click Quit and Open Safari Settings...
    • 6.)Click Advanced in Safari Settings and then turn on Show Develop menu in menu bar
    • 7.) Click Develop in Safari menu bar and then turn on Allow Unsigned Extensions
      • If you’re using Safari 17 or later, click the Developer tab in Safari Settings, and select the “Allow unsigned extensions” option
      • The Allow Unsigned Extensions setting resets when a user quits Safari, so you need to set it again the next time you launch Safari.
    • 8.) Click Develop in Safari menu bar and then turn on Allow Unsigned Extensions
    • 9.) You will see this extension in Extensions of Safari Settings, turn on it
    • 10.) Click Always Allow on Every Website

• Chrome / Chromium / Brave / Edge / Vivaldi

  • 2.) Go to your Browser's Extensions page (chrome://extensions/)
    • 3.) Activate Developer mode
    • 4.) Click the Load unpacked button & Select the extracted folder

• Firefox / LibreWolf / Waterfox / IceCat

  • 2.) Go to Add-ons (about:addons)
    • 3.) Click on Extensions tab
    • 4.) Click on Debug Add-ons (about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox)
    • 5.) Click on Load Temporary Add-on…
    • 6.) Select the manifest.json file from unzipped folder