Watch videos on YouTube fullscreen within your browsers screen.
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.
Other NEW Features (Premium Sub required, $5 AUD per year):
- Auto-toggle windowed fullscreen
- Allow scrolling while windowed fullscreen mode
- Miniplayer while scrolling
NOTE: PLEASE RESTART CHROME OR REFRESH YOUTUBE IF IT DOESNT WORK AFTER INSTALLING.
Configure options by either clicking 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.
While in fullscreen mode, mouse over where the search bar usually is for it to appear; it will also appear while scrolling.
We're Moving to a Freemium Model, and why:
I never thought I would have to make this decision, and I want to apologize for the change. Unfortunately, with the current economic situation and after recently losing my job, I need a source of income to keep this extension running and up-to-date. Maintaining the extension, especially with the frequent changes to YouTube's layout, requires significant time and effort. By introducing a premium model, I'll be able to dedicate the necessary time to continue updating and improving the extension.
I understand that this may not be ideal for many of you, but I hope you'll understand the circumstances. Thank you for your continued support, and I'm truly grateful for all the users who have used the extension over the years.
Sign up won't take any credit card or anything like that; Subscriptions are set at $5 AUD per year and you can immediately set it to not be recurring afterwards through either this link here https://billing.stripe.com/p/login/bIYaEUf1Ze6m79mcMM or clicking the 'Manage Subscription' button after payment has been made.
Link to the terms of use and privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1czbBOblR46ucyfxpCUhdNnxh_TUH69R2Up-KbA6-ffw/pub
I have removed some images from the extension which have reduced the extension size again. The Chrome Web Store is still processing my change to a trader account and will be reflected as soon as it's done.
Latest reviews
- (2024-07-18) Christian Albao: Update: The Dev is so responsive in Email and was able to fix the Bug Immediately! Thanks for this wonderful Extension!
- (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.
- (2022-07-26) 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.