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ImprovedTube

Powerful but lightweight extension to enrich your video experience & enable your content selection.

Roadmap (Finding developers / patreons) All bugs & many wishes [i] ToolTips & documentation Auto Avoiding CPU-rendering Smart Player buttons for all <video> Smart content-filtering & discovery + #x Full-page GUI, watch-history, dashboard Integrating data #1452, SB / NB etc. Continuously Integrating code /features like: YCS, YR, NY; IC Run on m.youtube.com (grey-out some) Ask Samsung Browser to list us. Critiques (~ Top100) - 'Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever' - 'enhances YouTube in meaningful ways' - 'Strong Add-on, full control. Yet clear & easy' - Thanks ♡ to our contributors, Dodieboy, translators (+ wiki-authors? +donators?) Translators                        ♡  🌎 ✔️EN en_GB : KorbinCode Proofreaders:___ (You?) ✔️CN(zh_CN) : niceRAM, ausers ✔️CN(zh_TW) : Still34, water903, suitangi ✓ES : Kioraga, Compvictor, dimateos ✓HI : monishamandal02, BRAVO68WEB ✓FR : leghort, Eymiks, Solvabl ✓AR : Raayib ✔️BN : BRAVO68WEB ✓RU : qweered, alexesprit ✔️pt_BR : dthiago, Mike-Correa DavidBrazSan ✓PT : DrNopt ✓ID : Bagus23, A.Muttaqin ✔️DE : Termuellinator, css-smueller ✔️JA : utuhiro78 ✓TR : onurdumangoz, daswareinfach VN : zeref-dragneel ✓KO : msc9533, LYHyoung ❌(Iranian) Persian : _____(You?) ✔️IT : urfausto, FedericoSlongo ❌TH Thai : ______(You?) ✔️PL : FluidExtractor ❌Ukrainian : (You?) ❌Hebrew : (You?) ❌Czech : (You?) ❌SE Swedish : (You?) ✓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?)

✓ = missing some additions/updates The following popular languages are spoken mainly. But dont hesitate to add one of them. (Even if just 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) HausaEgyptian Spoken Arabic SwahiliJavaneseKannadaGujarati Amharic, Bhojpuri, Min Nan Chinese (incl. Hokkien), Jin Chinese Yoruba Hakka Chinese, Burmese, Spoken Arabic: Sudanese & Algerian Lingala, Malaysian Malay (Combined these have more first-language speakers than English + Spanish + Hindi. And more second-language speakers than Chinese + Hindi + Spanish) [Help us Translate]

Contributing

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

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🌱

🎁More Extensions & Projects

unFreeze me [History Manager] Dark Mode Custom user agent
Research: Ultimate Regex (Search) & Replace("Ctrl+F+Shift")] (Regex Replace)
Video / Media: (to be integrated in ImprovedTube...) Looper Frame by Frame unBlob (Equalizer)
Home: (Start Page to be uploaded ) TextEditor ToDo auto-scroll

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Development: Satus - Our UI library | WebGL.js - WebGL Library (TE,P,CodeEdit, Viscum Player)
Git Community: 🐣Regex Collector | [🌱Pull Requests bots

💡 Got great ideas?

We might work on novel (new & unique)
projects at github/Wish-Factory
(or ideas@improvedtube.com)

👩‍💻 "Behind the scenes"

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

🏝⛵🏕 Issue-Filters // To-Do List

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)

📟 "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+

🧰 Features

• 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

[Full List of Features]

🔧 (Installing from source)

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

• Safari:

  • 2.) #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