Reviews for Iridium for YouTube
Iridium for YouTube by Particle
Review by Firefox user 5735786
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 5735786, 5 years agoEDIT: Thanks for the reply. I saw the link to some random reddit thread, but not that Github issue report. Refreshing with cache cleared (Ctrl+F5) with Iridium disabled/uninstalled immediately fixed the issue. Why reply to all of these users having this issue with these wordy responses when this is all you have to do?
Still, Iridium must have corrupted something in the site's cache, as no issue existed until I installed/enabled it for the first time in months (when I started using Enhancer instead). There's no way I'm going to blame the website for behavior that only occurs immediately after installing and uninstalling an extension, with no change in website coding, browser version, etc.
Updating review to 3 stars because of the feature evaporation (why not restore more functionality before releasing the code rewrite?). But for anyone else affected by this, try Ctrl+F5 for a full refresh while Iridium is uninstalled/disabled, and you should be good to go.
EDIT 2: Also, while trying to call me out for not using Reddit's search function (which is known to be garbage, by the way lol), you link to two threads, neither of which are referring to the issue I had. Guess you never looked at the screenshot I provided. If installing and uninstalling your addon immediately creates an issue that requires clearing the cache to fix, the addon is at fault. Obviously. Also, I didn't say this addon was malware, I said the behavior was on the same tier as that of malicious software (that is, 'things break if you remove it').
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So yeah, was using Enhancer for YouTube for a long time with Iridium also installed, but disabled, since I liked Enhancer's feature set more, and figured running them both at the same time would cause conflicts.
Saw that Iridium had a bunch of updates recently, so I decided to try it out again. So I disabled Enhancer and enabled this. Saw many features were missing, so I swapped back. And the INSTANT I re-disabled Iridium, YouTube videos will NOT load at all, even if I restart Firefox in safe mode! Instead, the video area is completely empty, same color as the background, etc. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/al4WyRE.png ) The only way YouTube videos will load again is if I re-enable Iridium, and keep it re-enabled, even though it clashes with Enhancer when that's enabled too (e.g. videos will not autoplay with both extensions active, no matter what options I set). This all happened today, no Firefox updating occurred in between, nothing. YouTube broke as soon as Iridium was disabled. In fact, now, YouTube will never work while in safe mode, which obviously wasn't the case before. Uninstalling it completely gives the same result as disabling.
I see you reacting to other reviewers saying that there's no way disabling Iridium broke anything, that having it installed was taking care of some bug in the browser (and that reddit link does not at all describe the issue, which is that videos don't load AT ALL, it's not some FPS issue). But this is definitely the culprit. I don't know HOW uninstalling an extension managed to break the website it interacts with, but it did, 100%. Find out why, and fix it. Reporting the addon for abuse in the meantime, this is malware-tier behavior.
Still, Iridium must have corrupted something in the site's cache, as no issue existed until I installed/enabled it for the first time in months (when I started using Enhancer instead). There's no way I'm going to blame the website for behavior that only occurs immediately after installing and uninstalling an extension, with no change in website coding, browser version, etc.
Updating review to 3 stars because of the feature evaporation (why not restore more functionality before releasing the code rewrite?). But for anyone else affected by this, try Ctrl+F5 for a full refresh while Iridium is uninstalled/disabled, and you should be good to go.
EDIT 2: Also, while trying to call me out for not using Reddit's search function (which is known to be garbage, by the way lol), you link to two threads, neither of which are referring to the issue I had. Guess you never looked at the screenshot I provided. If installing and uninstalling your addon immediately creates an issue that requires clearing the cache to fix, the addon is at fault. Obviously. Also, I didn't say this addon was malware, I said the behavior was on the same tier as that of malicious software (that is, 'things break if you remove it').
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So yeah, was using Enhancer for YouTube for a long time with Iridium also installed, but disabled, since I liked Enhancer's feature set more, and figured running them both at the same time would cause conflicts.
Saw that Iridium had a bunch of updates recently, so I decided to try it out again. So I disabled Enhancer and enabled this. Saw many features were missing, so I swapped back. And the INSTANT I re-disabled Iridium, YouTube videos will NOT load at all, even if I restart Firefox in safe mode! Instead, the video area is completely empty, same color as the background, etc. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/al4WyRE.png ) The only way YouTube videos will load again is if I re-enable Iridium, and keep it re-enabled, even though it clashes with Enhancer when that's enabled too (e.g. videos will not autoplay with both extensions active, no matter what options I set). This all happened today, no Firefox updating occurred in between, nothing. YouTube broke as soon as Iridium was disabled. In fact, now, YouTube will never work while in safe mode, which obviously wasn't the case before. Uninstalling it completely gives the same result as disabling.
I see you reacting to other reviewers saying that there's no way disabling Iridium broke anything, that having it installed was taking care of some bug in the browser (and that reddit link does not at all describe the issue, which is that videos don't load AT ALL, it's not some FPS issue). But this is definitely the culprit. I don't know HOW uninstalling an extension managed to break the website it interacts with, but it did, 100%. Find out why, and fix it. Reporting the addon for abuse in the meantime, this is malware-tier behavior.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoYou can report whatever you want to report, but Mozilla will reply back explaining what I already have explained: no extension hosted on the AMO store can affect anything on the browser after it has been disabled and the browser restarted.
I did not say having the extension installed took care of the bug, I said that it was making it work because whatever problem YouTube has was being circumvented as a result of the features the extension implements in their own source code. It was a fortunate coincidence for those that want to keep using the extension.
You saw my replies to other users, but you also ignored that they confirmed the issue went away despite the fact that nothing had been changed in the extension.
Futhermore, it was reported and confirmed as a YouTube bug in the repository itself:
https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/issues/771
It's your choice to report this for whatever reason you want, but like I said, what you have is a YouTube bug and there's nothing this extension can do to cause that after it has been disabled. Follow the suggestions others posted on that Reddit post and I'm sure the issue will go away. If it doesn't then report to the YouTube team.
Also, there's a search feature in Reddit which - had you actually used it instead of coming back here with such a vendetta - you'd find others reporting the video not working exactly like you described:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/djlmht/bug_every_video_loads_like_this_just_a_blank/
and another
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/diy8ro/bug_love_youtubes_new_minimalistic_design/
But what do I know, I just do this for more than 5 years, it's way more likely that I've suddendly decided to make a malware-tier extension that just breaks YouTube (what would be the point?) rather than this being an actual YouTube bug like usual.
I did not say having the extension installed took care of the bug, I said that it was making it work because whatever problem YouTube has was being circumvented as a result of the features the extension implements in their own source code. It was a fortunate coincidence for those that want to keep using the extension.
You saw my replies to other users, but you also ignored that they confirmed the issue went away despite the fact that nothing had been changed in the extension.
Futhermore, it was reported and confirmed as a YouTube bug in the repository itself:
https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/issues/771
It's your choice to report this for whatever reason you want, but like I said, what you have is a YouTube bug and there's nothing this extension can do to cause that after it has been disabled. Follow the suggestions others posted on that Reddit post and I'm sure the issue will go away. If it doesn't then report to the YouTube team.
Also, there's a search feature in Reddit which - had you actually used it instead of coming back here with such a vendetta - you'd find others reporting the video not working exactly like you described:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/djlmht/bug_every_video_loads_like_this_just_a_blank/
and another
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/diy8ro/bug_love_youtubes_new_minimalistic_design/
But what do I know, I just do this for more than 5 years, it's way more likely that I've suddendly decided to make a malware-tier extension that just breaks YouTube (what would be the point?) rather than this being an actual YouTube bug like usual.
626 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by DanLo', a month agoAfter 3-4 years of stopping to use this app du to the reboot, I decided to have a look back at it... but I think it won't be quite for now yet.
It makes yt pages loading too much slower notably.
Feature-wise, I notably miss the options for volume boost or to change size & control mini player when I scroll down the page.
I'll have a look back to it when version 2.1.1 comes to see if it get better to switch from Enhancer for yt. :)Developer response
posted a month agoHi, currently working on making it lighter, the methods used to intercept YT code are heavy and need to be improved, though this is mostly limited to logged in users and when the comment section loads. Volume boost was never a feature present in Iridium, but controlling the mini player is a matter of moving it with the right mouse button. Resizing it was not re-implemented though, I need to find an easier way to do it that is not as complex as it was before. - Rated 5 out of 5by phraggers, a month agoNot sure what happened 3 years ago that this kept getting 1 star ratings, I installed this 2 days ago and it's done everything I wanted and more, fantastic. Will update my review later if I run into problems.
Developer response
posted a month agoHi, I simply stopped updating the extension a few years ago due to other priorities, and resumed work a few months ago. In that time that I was absent YT changed significantly and the extension was no longer working correctly, which lead to the very deserving lower ratings. - Rated 5 out of 5by Rock, 3 months agoCan the Scroll volume function provide an option to hold the Shift key or not? Edit: Thanks for the option.
Developer response
posted 3 months agoSure, sounds like a simple enough feature, I will add that to the next version. You can follow the progress here if you want: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/issues/961 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18285282, 3 months agoPlease restore the previous version 2.0.6, this 2.0.7broke several features.
Edit: autoplay is now a button...Developer response
posted 3 months agoGlad to hear you got the issue resolved. Sorry for the confusion, the autoplay button is simply a shortcut that toggles the feature so users don't have to go into the extension settings and do it there, it is simply a convenience feature that can also be disabled if you don't want another button on the page. - Rated 4 out of 5by darkbayleef, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Grym, a year ago
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Kelue, 3 years agoWorked great once, but a year ago the dev got mad when asked to design the extension with the same permission standards as other Firefox extensions, and then just stopped working on it entirely. If you must use this, use an older version, but its not maintained any longer and just causes more issues than it solves.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Defenser of Arisa, 3 years agoI had trouble with it before, it was just a setting problem. Now it just completely stop me from watching YouTube. Spent a good 10 mins disabling my extensionsto find out which one was the problem. To my surprise, the add-on meant to improve my YouTube experience caused me the most problems on YouTube. I don't know what they did today, but they broke it.
Save yourself the headache and don't use Iridium. - Rated 1 out of 5by AJB, 3 years agoIt was great when it came out, and finally it was a working add-on that could reverse your playlist, and then it suddenly died.
Sadly, the author has been occupied that he or she couldn't update/fix this anymore, so... consider this abandoned. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14291925, 4 years agoadd-on went to shid a year ago when they decided to totally redo the UI and then just stopped updating it
- Rated 1 out of 5by Detamina, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16316977, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Bearskij, 4 years agoThe writer freaked out because he had to follow the rules and then he abandoned this extension. This is mostly malware now.
- Rated 1 out of 5by FVBryM, 4 years agoNeeds a LOT of work before I'll ever consider it again. Intrusive constant pop-up asking for money...NO FUCKING WAY. That's why extensions like this exist...we don't want ANNOYING BULLSHIT like that!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14284556, 4 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Volker, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Arcane, 4 years agoGreat extension, an absolute must-have, unfortunately Mozilla has recently decided to be extremely anal about it, so it's no longer supported here. Go to the developers github for newer versions
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12463765, 4 years ago21.4.2020/// As of today, Iridium completely breaks YouTube's autoplay. Keeps on giving a "playback error". Forced to disable it for now.
Used to be a 5/5 app until the recent updates which removed all of its functions.
Go back to version 0.2.5 if you want this addon to work properly. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13512887, 4 years ago
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