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Description from extension meta
Avoid the lag when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video - by hiding the heavy fluff while transitioning
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There's an annoying lag period when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video. On my machine, it's normally ~2 seconds; but with a large playlist expanded, it gets up to ~3 seconds. This extension reduces the transition time to almost nothing.
Supported fullscreen transitions:
- Clicking the fullscreen button
- Pressing the F key
- Double-clicking the video
Unsupported fullscreen transitions (still slow):
- Escape
- F11
Note that Firefox doesn't seem to have the same issue as Chrome; so in Firefox the improvement is barely noticeable.
In Vivaldi, there is unfortunately an intermediate step in the fullscreen transition, which I can't seem to do anything to avoid. It appears to be due to the toolbars being hidden/shown at a different moment to when the browser actually enters/leaves fullscreen.
Technical detail:
This bug's been present for years now, and I got so sick of it that I spent one night experimenting to find a way to avoid it - and I found one! The extra HTML content on the page (playlist, recommendations, comments, description, likes, etc.) is pretty heavy, and when you toggle fullscreen, YouTube moves it around in the DOM, which ends up incuring a fair bit of processing. I've worked out that it's significantly faster to hide that extra content before transitioning, then display it again afterwards once it's reached its new position.
Latest reviews
- (2025-01-06) Mike Bilel: incredible it really does work I have always wondered why their engineers never bothered to fix this issue!!
- (2024-10-14) Shenuli Aadya: its great i like it we can watch larva😁😂🤣🤣😆😂😂
- (2024-09-16) Mike: Works great
- (2024-05-18) Alperen K.: It works great for single videos, but in playlists, it doesn't really help that much. Still great though! Thank you for your contribution.
- (2024-05-14) Mohammad Nasir Uddin Sarker: Not working
- (2024-02-01) Liberty G (LibertyTheGamer): does not work anymore pls fix
- (2024-01-27) Jan: Did not work.
- (2024-01-21) Doruk Serdem Şentürk: Just works as promised. Great.
- (2023-11-21) mate: this extension is life saver it takes away 3 sec delay from yt when going in full screen thanks and keep updating it
- (2023-10-19) BlueCat: linux
- (2023-10-19) BlueCat: linux
- (2023-10-05) Sellers: Works great!
- (2023-10-05) Sellers: Works great!
- (2023-07-05) Bryan: massive improvement thanks!
- (2023-07-05) Bryan: massive improvement thanks!
- (2023-05-10) Pierre “Ridou” Brunet: Still slow
- (2023-05-10) Pierre “Ridou” Brunet: Still slow
- (2023-05-02) Maximiliano Kreckler: Muy buena solucion .Uso Vivaldi , el tiempo se acorto de 2 segundos a 1 segundo.Gracias.
- (2022-08-18) Cyprian: AWESOME
- (2022-08-18) Cyprian: AWESOME
- (2022-07-16) MuFa5a: Hope OP is ok (almost a year no updates) -Queue list not supported. (After making a list and play, need to refresh F5 to works)
- (2022-07-16) MuFa5a: Hope OP is ok (almost a year no updates) -Queue list not supported. (After making a list and play, need to refresh F5 to works)
- (2022-06-14) Ɲσιѕєc: Much faster
- (2022-06-14) Ɲσιѕєc: Much faster
- (2022-05-30) Dani Cute: WOW! I didn't think it would work but it did. I have no idea why Youtube is so slow and can't do what this extension does. Well, it's expected since they lasted 100 years to implement a dark mode.
- (2022-05-30) Dani Cute: WOW! I didn't think it would work but it did. I have no idea why Youtube is so slow and can't do what this extension does. Well, it's expected since they lasted 100 years to implement a dark mode.
- (2022-05-15) John Doe: GENIUS !!!!!! THANKS YOU FOR THIS GIFT ;)
- (2022-05-15) John Doe: GENIUS !!!!!! THANKS YOU FOR THIS GIFT ;)
- (2022-04-24) Mula deseis2000: Esta extensión solucionó para mí el problema, uso Vivaldi. Muchas gracias y espero que sirva a todos los que usan este tipo de extensiones de Chrome.
- (2022-04-21) Michal Vurm: Does what it says.
- (2022-04-21) Michal Vurm: Does what it says.
- (2022-04-10) Henri-Louis: Very impressive, thanks!
- (2022-04-10) Henri-Louis: Very impressive, thanks!
- (2022-04-08) Prateek Dahiya: Yes , It works. reduces resizing video time to negligible.
- (2022-04-08) Prateek Dahiya: Yes , It works. reduces resizing video time to negligible.
- (2022-03-26) Curtis J.: It works!
- (2022-03-26) Curtis J.: It works!
- (2022-03-12) Tyler: Epic programming skills. Provides a MASSIVE difference on my decently high end system (I7 8700k overclocked, RTX 2060 Super) Before around 2 seconds, sometimes 3 seconds on big playlists pages. Now 0.5 seconds. It's still not the the instant it used to be back in the good ol flash days, but massively better. Thanks man.
- (2022-03-12) Tyler: Epic programming skills. Provides a MASSIVE difference on my decently high end system (I7 8700k overclocked, RTX 2060 Super) Before around 2 seconds, sometimes 3 seconds on big playlists pages. Now 0.5 seconds. It's still not the the instant it used to be back in the good ol flash days, but massively better. Thanks man.
- (2022-02-27) Adarsh Nair: It works better than the default transition but sometimes shows a grey bar for a few seconds on the player where the media controls (pause, volume slider, timer) are. Sometimes the transition gets slowed down when there's multiple tabs on chrome and takes around 3 to 5 seconds. Please fix this issue. Other than that, there's no issues and it works great! Thanks for this extension!
- (2022-02-27) Adarsh Nair: It works better than the default transition but sometimes shows a grey bar for a few seconds on the player where the media controls (pause, volume slider, timer) are. Sometimes the transition gets slowed down when there's multiple tabs on chrome and takes around 3 to 5 seconds. Please fix this issue. Other than that, there's no issues and it works great! Thanks for this extension!
- (2022-02-24) chunkymonkey: works perfect on Chrome 98.0.4758.102. is WAY faster now.
- (2022-02-19) lorenzo checcarelli: I have an i7 11700K and rtx 3080 ti, 32gb RAM DDR4 4000Mhz CL16. And it works only once every 30 times ahahahah. The Youtube site is badly optimized, this extension is even worse. Do not download it, It works only when it want ahahah. The developer is even worst than google ones.
- (2022-02-19) lorenzo checcarelli: I have an i7 11700K and rtx 3080 ti, 32gb RAM DDR4 4000Mhz CL16. And it works only once every 30 times ahahahah. The Youtube site is badly optimized, this extension is even worse. Do not download it, It works only when it want ahahah. The developer is even worst than google ones.
- (2022-02-16) DarkYuan (DarkYuan): Totally better than default! From up to a 6 second lag to less than 1 second. Not as fast as Firefox though, but I can live with this so long as I can stay on Chrome.
- (2022-02-16) DarkYuan (DarkYuan): Totally better than default! From up to a 6 second lag to less than 1 second. Not as fast as Firefox though, but I can live with this so long as I can stay on Chrome.
- (2022-02-13) LockHändel: works.
- (2022-02-13) LockHändel: works.
- (2021-12-21) Angelo Ruocco: THANK-YOU!
- (2021-12-21) Angelo Ruocco: THANK-YOU!