extension ExtPose

YouTube Windowed FullScreen

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Description from extension meta

Watch videos on YouTube fullscreen within your browsers screen.

Image from store YouTube Windowed FullScreen
Description from store UPDATES!! Auto-Toggle has now been implemented. -There is now a OPTIONS page with 3 new options. To go there, either click the icon in your browser, or head to chrome://extensions and click on Details for Youtube Windowed FullScreen and click the "Extension Options". Please note some Shortcut Keys may not work correctly as YouTube, or your system may block them. Most keys should work if they are not reserved. NOTE: PLEASE RESTART CHROME OR REFRESH YOUTUBE IF IT DOESNT WORK AFTER INSTALLING. A simple and lightweight extension that adds an icon which allows the YouTube video player to fill the entire page, as a full browser player. This is especially useful for dual monitor users that may wish to continue working on other tasks with a large video playing. In other words make your youtube fullscreen in your window! FYI the shortcut key to toggle this without clicking is "`" on your keyboard! Updates: 1. Now works with the new youtube layout! 2. Fixed compatibility issues with MagicActions and Adblock 3. Added shortcut key "`" 4. Added Options page at chrome://extensions, for 3 new settings (Auto-Toggle, Hide Full Screen and ShortCut Key) 5. Should now load more consistently.

Latest reviews

  • (2023-10-10) Ethan Everett Bolton: I wish youtube had this functionality built in! A great option for when you want a larger player but confined to a tab/window (really nice for large/multiple monitor setups). Great extension if this is what you want!
  • (2023-09-16) Kosmos: Does exactly what's advertises. Prefer this over native FS. [BUG(?)]: When exiting without disabling, the next time you open it puts the video player in CINEMA MODE. Please add something that resets it to normal view. [FEATURE]: Allow scrolling down like you can with YT's native FS feature. [FEATURE]: Custom FS dimensions/modes. One I want, is where it expands height entirely to whole pages dimension (maybe an option to not hide top toolbar if people want that - or have a dynamic one where hovering mouse on the top, drops it down). And have width expand to the left edge entirely, but the right side only expands enough to show the thumbnails of the suggested videos. Sort of like how Twitch's theatre mode is with chat still visible. The right suggestion side could be separate from main video div to allow independent scrolling of each
  • (2023-09-02) Ryan Blanchard: Edit September 2023. Having issues with it I haven't noticed before. (After expanding the video to fill the browser view area the button to un-expand it has disappeared.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit August 2023. If I could increase my star rating I would. I was using "Better YouTube Theatre Mode" but a recent Chrome update seems to have made it not work. However this extension *does* still work and that is fantastic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At first use, 5/5. Does what it says it would do (and for me, what it said it would do (windowed fullscreen) is SUPER helpful!!)) and didn't seem to have or cause other issues. Thanks dev.
  • (2023-08-19) Kevin Taylor: finally an extension that works, you're a godsend ! thank you.
  • (2023-08-18) André Pereira: Works as intended. It has a dedicated keyboard shorcut that can be configured. And it has auto fullscreen. Super useful. Thank you so much!
  • (2023-08-01) Ádám Török: It is not a windowed full screen. It's gives back the same size of player plus a black bar on the top and bottom. So basically no reason to use it. The only reason iff you want those black bars.
  • (2023-07-05) Alan Nguyen: Works great -- exactly what I was looking for. The other complaints are mostly solved by a press of a key. This does exactly what it says it would.
  • (2023-06-29) Nil Desperandum: When you use regular fullscreen mode on YouTube, you can still scroll. Because I want to read comments tooo
  • (2023-06-28) Michael: Is this a joke? When you use regular fullscreen mode on YouTube, you can still scroll. With this, you can't. You actually lose functionality with no significant benefit.
  • (2023-03-17) Jeppe Jepsen: Works well, only think i wish is it would show the title of the video when moving the mouse - the same behaviour as when replacing /watch?= with /embed/ on any video. It makes it difficult to find the right video when having opened many tabs.
  • (2023-02-28) Chris Guerra (SeeGeeArtist): Finally! A theater mode extension that doesn't crop the video!
  • (2023-02-02) Jinwook Jeong: Please have it work on Google Drive videos as well
  • (2023-02-01) Eric B (GodSponge): Honestly this should be the default view for videos on youtube. Been looking for something like this for ages. Does exactly what it says it does. Nothing more, nothing less. Perfect extension.
  • (2022-12-26) Rachel: O melhor que usei ate agora. plugin leve e nao mexe na resolução do vieo, como ja airmaram.
  • (2022-11-25) Hải Nam: This Extension is exactly what I need. Thank you!
  • (2022-11-15) Nam Duc Dinh: you should be a boss at youtube. Tysm !
  • (2022-10-30) Henrique Marques da Silva: I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Love it.
  • (2022-07-31) Christian Albao: There are times that I have to refresh the page for it to work. Hoping for Next Update to fix it.
  • (2022-07-26) Chad B: Works great, anyone getting this and wanting it automatic, don't forget to check that option in settings.
  • (2022-07-23) Chris McFarland: Works great.
  • (2022-07-22) Terry Hau: Sometimes have to refresh the page for it to work, but otherwise it works fine.
  • (2022-07-17) Shadman Sudipto: It stops uBlock from blocking videos before ads. The ads are there if I enable this extension.
  • (2022-07-06) Salem Watkins YTP: probably my favorite extension, is there a safari version by any chance
  • (2022-06-27) Aditya Mehta: great extension, glad it exists however, it stop working at times and the way to fix it is to refresh, not a major deal but id rather not have this problem at all
  • (2022-06-23) Ritik sharma07: everything is good but When I right click from the full window mode it doesn't show "video right click option: like copy video url at current time please check
  • (2022-06-10) Christian Albao: There are times that you need to refresh the video for the Extension to work.
  • (2022-04-28) Craig Leinoff: Would be five stars except like once every day now it reopens the settings menu for no reason, which is incredibly frustrating.
  • (2022-04-27) Daniel Farley: (I wish there was a Github or other place to voice issues aside from reviews) For the past couple weeks, the extension has been re-opening its settings menu (as if it was the first run) every day or two on all of my devices. Sometimes it even happens multiple times per day. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling the extension but no effect.
  • (2022-04-21) okoo: can you update the firefox ver too? i use both :)
  • (2022-04-21) Isaac Woida: Just got the 3.4 update and the zooming issue is fixed. Thanks for the quick turnaround! Been using this for years, great extension.
  • (2022-04-20) Hub: When i go in the comment section and type the letter i, the miniplayer will toggle on-off, the letter appears as well in the comment box. please fix, it works fine when disabling your extension
  • (2022-04-20) Braden: I have loved this extension since it's debut, but it is currently giving me a slight issue. When in use, it is cropping the top and bottom of the video player out of the boundary of the browser screen. I dont know if there's a fix for this, but it renders the extension slightly useless, since it is cropping part of the viewer and, subsequently, the video.
  • (2022-04-19) D K: Great plugin. For some reason, though, it recently started zooming when I use it, instead of having black bars, making parts of the video unviewable when in use.
  • (2022-04-08) TOP TECH: after last version update when i get back from youtube video to search page on youtube i cannt scroll up or down page is freeze i tried when i not use the extension is not freeze any more the page is normal now this extension wasnt like that before
  • (2022-03-05) Ali: exactly what i wanted
  • (2022-03-03) Ole Thomas Haaland: Just what I needed! Works as advertised!
  • (2022-02-22) Max Bernasconi: This is great!
  • (2022-02-18) Geoff Buck: Fantastic extension - thank you!
  • (2022-02-02) Andre Messado: Beautiful, just beautiful. Thank you so much.
  • (2022-01-19) Kristina A: appears to be broken?
  • (2022-01-18) Ufuk Sarp Selçok: Liked since now, because it's broken now.
  • (2022-01-16) Peter Doyle: Excellent extension. Have used it for years and hope it can still be used for many more.
  • (2022-01-09) B A N K S -: I was hoping that someone already made this extension and here I am. Works great.
  • (2022-01-02) J P: Too buggy. It continually toggles itself on and off. Setting "auto-toggle" on or off has no effect. The shortcut key sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. And it doesn't let you scroll down to like or comment.
  • (2021-12-30) Huy Riki: Work as intended, Dec 2021
  • (2021-12-29) Brandon Cassata: Installed it. Refreshed the video I was watching. Clicked the button. It worked. It has one purpose and does it. Literally nothing more, nothing less. 5/5
  • (2021-12-08) Дмитрий Одинцов: Super, very convenient. It would be great to have feature - when you make window smaller or drag tab into a small window - auto fill window.
  • (2021-12-01) Francis: This extension doesn't work all the time. Pretty useless
  • (2021-11-15) Andrea Jones: Ya no funciona. It doesn't work anymore.
  • (2021-11-14) No Way: This app is buggy as ****. Half (maybe more) the time the button expand the video to window size doesn't show up and you have to expand the YouTube video to full screen and then hope it shows up so you can reduce it to window size and sometimes doesn't even show up then. It's one of the more frustrating extensions that I've ever used.

Latest issues

  • (2023-06-30, v:3.8) Mario Carollo: Shortcut Key: right click on video
    The title says it all ^^ Would it be possible to add the feature to toggle full screen mode by right clicking on the video?
  • (2023-04-27, v:3.8) Mike Gray: Other websites, imbedded video?
    I have an ultrawide, and I LOVE what this extension does. But as far as I can tell it only works for youtube - in fact, it only works when I actually open videos on the youtube main site - not when the video is embedded. Am I missing something here or is there a work around or an alternative?
  • (2022-10-26, v:3.8) Tha: New youtube layout
    Youtube is AB testing a new layout, this breaks the extension when navigating from the home page to a video. Also the nearby hover the top bar while in windowed fullscreen mode no longer works
  • (2022-09-03, v:3.8) Cm: vertical screen support
    hi, I like this extension. But when I try to windowed fullScreen YT video on my vertical screen. The video will stay on the top of webpage, and leave a big black area on the bottom of video. It is possible keep the video centered of the webpage rather than top? Thanks
  • (2022-04-26, v:3.5) Mikko Saarinen: Extension options page opening automatically when I start Chrome
    I don't know what is the problem here, but most of the times when I open Chrome, the YouTube Windowes FullScreen extension options page opens automatically. This is the page where I set the shortcut key and other options for the extension. This is very annoying. Any idea why this might be happening?
  • (2022-04-19, v:3.3) TOP TECH: problem
    zoom in or increase the video resolution in full browser mode
  • (2022-04-14, v:3.3) Josiah Sonsie: Cuts off parts of video
    When putting a video in windowed fullscreen, I have noticed that it now cuts off parts of the video along the top and bottom which it wasn't doing before. Before it would letterbox/scale the video so that the whole frame was visible.
  • (2022-04-14, v:3.3) Spike VanHellsing: Zoomed in when active?
    When version 3.3 it seems to have now bugged to be zoomed in to where the sides fill to the edges and end up cutting off the top and bottom of videos. i can provide screenshots if need be to show specifically what i mean.
  • (2022-04-08, v:3.2) Brooks Andersen (BRUXXUS): Typing an "i" in comments while extension is active triggers the MiniPlayer keyboard shortcut.
    When typing a comment below a video, any time an "i" is typed, it toggles the Mini Player keyboard shortcut, which causes the whole window and everything to shift around like crazy. For some reason, it's only the "i" shortcut and none of the other player shortcuts. When disabling the extension, the problem goes away. Finally- wanted to say thanks for this extension! It's been incredibly useful! :)
  • (2022-04-07, v:3.2) TOP TECH: big problem
    when i get back from youtube video to search page on youtube i cannt scroll up or down page is freeze i tried when i not use the extension is not freeze any more the page is normal now this extension wasnt like that before
  • (2022-03-18, v:3.1) Fermin Cirella (Letrix): Stopped working
    Currently the extension is not working. A solution for this would be to edit the source code. The line failing is 138: you need to replace "ytp-size-button" with "ytp-fullscreen-button"
  • (2022-02-03, v:3.1) Giovani Cano: I think it's not working anymore
    I think it's not working since maybe 1 week, youtube removed the theater mode icon and the extension also stoped working
  • (2022-01-20, v:3.1) Jackson Mills: Icon is off
    your icon is sized weirdly and looks off center
  • (2022-01-15, v:3.1) Matt Garretson: Extension requires refresh nearly every time
    Hello! The extension still works, but, while I used to have to refresh a page maybe 1 in 20 times to get the extension to show up, now it is almost every time (18 or 19 times out of 20). The extension works as advertised once I do, but I have to refresh nearly every video I load to get the extension to show up now. Hope it can be fixed!
  • (2021-10-28, v:3.1) Peter Bacon: Adding a disable Auto-Play feature?
    I use Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos extension that has a disable auto-play feature, but this extension overrides that functionality. Any fix or can you add that feature?
  • (2021-10-12, v:3.1) Liam Munday: Button slightly too low down
    Button is lower than the other youtube buttons on the video player.
  • (2021-03-31, v:3.1) Kurt Rumbaugh: Add like button to player
    Just be nice instead of having to exit out whenever liking a video
  • (2021-03-03, v:3.1) TheOtherGuy1223: Option Doesn't Appear
    So, I first reported this issue back in June of 2019 and again in March of 2020. This issue still exists and is stronger than ever. INCREDIBLY annoying that the plugin just doesn't load or the button doesn't appear. The shortcut doesn't work either when that happens. Any ETA on a fix?
  • (2021-02-07, v:3.1) One Druce: Feature
    If you'll make able to scroll down to description and comments while in windowed fullscreen mode, it will be great and make your extension differ than others
  • (2021-02-05, v:3.1) Howar31: Missing button
    Love it but button disappeared recently. Can't use now
  • (2020-11-04, v:3.1) Константин Савов: Button missing after watching a few videos.
    Hi, the title pretty much says it all, after watching multiple videos the button disappears and I have to refresh to get it to show again. I'm guessing YouTube's SPA behaviour is overwriting the button. It is possible to fix this?
  • (2020-10-03, v:3.1) Alex Wood: Extension conflict in Incognito.
    Hello, I've been using this extension for a while and love it. However, it doesn't work with the "Auto Quality for Youtube" extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-quality-for-youtube/iaddfgegjgjelgkanamleadckkpnjpjc) when in Incognito mode. The two work perfectly fine in normal browsing though so I'm not sure what's wrong. I have enable/disabled "allow in incognito" on both extensions several times with no luck. Thanks for the great tool.
  • (2020-09-16, v:3.1) A P: I almost thought I found what I needed... but not quite
    Hi, I was happy with your extension...for about 5 minutes. Until I found this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fullscreen-video-to-windo/mkdkhflndckmdlpiaddfmpppmodplheo Your extension is so neat because it adds a native-looking button in the player window, unfortunately it does that ONLY for youtube. No other video will play in this mode. The other app seems to be able to fullscreen in window any video, but it works from the extensions bar... which is less elegant. I was wondering if you could adapt your extension to work the same way as in youtube, but for all other web players. Thanks and best of luck!
  • (2020-09-04, v:3.1) Peter Bacon: Chrome keyboard shortcut directs to the options window
    I'm trying to set Alt + F as the extension shortcut through the chrome keyboard shortcut window, but instead of activating the extension, it goes to the extension options window. The options window is already made available by right clicking on the extension icon. An alternative would be to enable to multi shortcut commands via the options window. Thanks
  • (2020-08-21, v:3.1) Fumiya I: disable esc shortcut?
    disable esc shortcut?
  • (2020-07-23, v:2.9) Cyber SharK: Extension options menu opening up everytime on startup.
    With V2.9, Chrome Version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit). To recreate, - Enable option to open where you left off on reopening chrome. - Open a Few tabs with the extension enabled. - Close chrome and reopen, Extension Options show up without one doing anything.
  • (2020-07-22, v:2.9) Michael Hebert: Tilde Key Update Issue
    Since a couple days ago, the options page for this extension has been opening itself to the Shortcut Key Assignment. I'm in the US, and it's set to the tilde key, but it keeps opening itself no matter how many times I save the setting.
  • (2020-05-06, v:2.3) Jerrad Neff: Unable to scroll after forward/back.
    This is probably the result of YouTube moving over to a SPA framework, but here goes: 1. Start on a YouTube page that has the whole video queueing/mini player situation set up (like the Home page now). 2. Click a video to go to it 3. Once it starts playing, turn on Windowed Fullscreen (either by clicking the button or pressing `) 4. Click your browser's back button. You'll be put back on the home page without a scrollbar and the page can't be scrolled by any means. The only way to fix this is to go back into a video, turn off Windowed Fullscreen, and go back again. A slight annoyance, but thought you should be aware if a quick fix would be easy. :) Thanks!
  • (2020-03-25, v:2.3) TheOtherGuy1223: Button Doesn't Load
    Over half a year, and the same issue still has not be addressed, the button doesn't load, or seems to get unloaded when opening a new tab or reloading the page, a good 80% of the time, the button just isn't there. I'm not a developer, but maybe just adding in a "wait 2-3 seconds before loading" would fix this? It's VERY annoying, but this is the only decent extension for youtube fullscreen windowed.
  • (2020-03-06, v:2.3) Chris: default full screen setting
    Is there a way to just have this as the default when I open a youtube video window? Would be nice to not have to hit the ` on each new window.
  • (2020-03-04, v:2.3) Alisherbek Rakhimov: Hotkey(keyboard shortcut)
    Is it possible to add a shortcut for enabling, so that no time is required to point the mouse and click.
  • (2019-09-04, v:2.3) Vincent Finney: Icon doesn't appear
    The fullscreen icon doesn't appear when I initially open a new YouTube video. I have to start playing the video, switch it to the miniplayer, then switch it back to get the icon to appear.
  • (2019-06-24, v:2.3) Jakob Hjelm: Re-bindable key
    Like some other people have mentioned, not all keyboards have a tilde key (or require a combination of keys to press it). Personally I use a nordic layout, which lacks the key. May I suggest making the key re-bindable? Several of the other extensions I have (like e.g. Bitwarden) lets the users rebind keys via chrome://extensions (open the side menu and click "Keyboard shortcuts"), so this must be part of the Chrome Extension API. This would let every user set their own preferred key, so you don't have to add new keys for every keyboard layout.
  • (2019-06-10, v:2.3) TheOtherGuy1223: Button not showing up half the time, Tilde Key doesn't work
    about half of the time, the button doesn't show up on youtube videos, and when it doesn't, I can't get it to work at all, no matter how many times I restart chrome, close and reopen tabs, refresh the page, nothing. When it doesn't show up, the shortcut key doesn't work either. It seems to be video-specific, some videos work, so don't, and it doesn't change.
  • (2019-06-07, v:2.3) Mark Klain: Tilde key is not existing on a german QWERTZ keyboard layout
    Hello, thank you for this great extension there is no tilde key on a german / austrian keyboard layout (those are the keyboards at least 80% of the users in germany or austria own or use). The method for inputting a ~ on those keyboards is the combination of ALT GR and + "+" key left to the return key. However, this shortcut (ALT GR + "+") doesn't work. Would it maybe possible to implement a different keyboard shortcut for us poor souls?
  • (2019-05-25, v:2.3) Dylan: do not know how this works
    how do i use this? do i just click on a yt window and press ` ? i did it but nothing happened
  • (2019-05-12, v:2.3) Paul Kage: Tilde key issue
    Hi, would it be possible to provide an alternative to the tilde key (`)? My keyboard language and many other languages I assume doesn't have a tilde key
  • (2019-04-30, v:2.2) Skylar Edmonds: T to fullscreen
    Is it possible to change the keybind? T is bound to theater mode so it constantly changes back and forth between theater mode which is annoying.
  • (2019-04-11, v:2.2) Denver Clarke: Auto fullscreen on page load
    The description of the app mentions this, but I'm not sure if it possible now, or if it is a feature you plan to add. Either way, thank you very much.
  • (2019-03-13, v:2.1) Tanmay Singhal: Regarding the Key(t)
    Dear Dev's Please tell me a way to change the key to some other letter from 'T' as T is defined for theater mode which I like personally and use many of the times. But when this extension is enabled I cannot go to Theater mode as it takes it to full screen.
  • (2019-02-14, v:2.1) Spike VanHellsing: Black fill in.
    Using version 2.1 and when activated i no longer get the black fill in bars in the empty space of videos. I can Submit a link to an example image if needed.

Statistics

Installs
50,965 history
Category
Rating
4.4545 (297 votes)
Last update / version
2022-07-20 / 3.8
Listing languages
en

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