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Reviews for YouTube Popout Player

YouTube Popout Player by Ryan Thaut

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Review by Beauleau
by Beauleau, a month ago
how about making an app that stops the stupid player from popping up every time you close it!!
64 reviews
  • by ЯромиR, a month ago
    After receiving update, repeating message displays, asking new permission "block any content" to be confirmed.
    Author's home page does not provide any information about the reason for such activity, neither give any option to write the questions about it.
    There more, after I rejected to confirm such permission, it repeatedly pops out with the same annoyance.
    I've disabled the extension until clear explain will be provided.
    ...
    [update 2024-10-18]
    Quick and careful response, great Thanks!
    Now I have no doubts, everything is nice and clear.

    Developer response

    posted a month ago
    You are absolutely right, I completely forgot to update the page with information about the new permission!

    I have just updated that page: https://rthaut.github.io/YouTubePopoutPlayer/permissions

    Here is the explanation for that new "block any content" permission, taken directly from the updated page:

    This extension does not block any content at all, nor does it run on any pages other than the popout player.

    This is part of the big Manifest v3 changes that Chrome has pushed. The permission is "declarativeNetRequest" and is needed to set the "Referer" header for the popout player window/tab; without that header being set, many videos do not play in the popout player.

    This was previously accomplished via the "webRequest" and "webRequestBlocking" permissions that allowed code to run when the network requests were being executed (similar to how ad-blockers function), but those permissions and the corresponding functionality have been removed in Chrome for Manifest v3.

    This is only used for the embedded player page on the primary youtube.com domain and the alternate youtube-nocookie.com domain.
  • by Firefox user 18612906, 2 months ago
    The popout player doesn't show up over other tabs or windows so it's basicly useless.
    However i have found that mozila already has an inbuilt popout player called picture-in-picture but it's kinda unintuitive to reach for some reason. You can double right click or shift right click on a youtube video to bypass youtube's fancy right click menu and reach mozila's right click menu. In mozila's menu you will have an option that saies something along the lines of "watch with picture-in-picture", idk exactly how it would be in english cuz my menu is in romanian so i'm having to translate.
  • by Firefox user 12723137, 5 months ago
    Can resize the screen to be very smol, can do work while having a video in the corner.
  • by Kinto, 10 months ago
  • by Firefox user 16002417, a year ago
    Great stuff. It would be good if on selecting the popout player the windows minimizes to the task bar.
  • by Mtes, a year ago
    Like this extension a lot. Asked a developer for an additional feature and it was implemented. Thank you.

    Edit 2023-06-18: One issue occurred. When opening YT video in a popout window via right click menu, that video no longer registers in YouTube history. It was registering not so long ago. Did they change something? Can it be fixed? Thank you for this wonderful extension anyways.

    Edit 2023-06-20: No, I have "No Cookie" option disabled. Must be some change by YouTube itself.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    It may have been a change made by YouTube, but if you have enabled the "Use 'No Cookie' Version of YouTube' advanced option, that will prevent videos from being added to your watch history.
  • by Firefox user 17160511, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 10206391, 2 years ago
    Extension does exactly what Firefox USED TO DO AUTOMATICALLY.

    Currently, Firefox "Pop-Out" video player doesn't work on sites other than YouTube.

    So, effectively, virtually useless.

    This disabling of former Firefox features is, of course, because of the internet wide and Worldwide software plague of making NEW versions of things WORSE than the versions they replace (I'm looking at you, Windows-everything-since-Windows 7.
  • by Derko, 2 years ago
    fantastico :)))))
  • by Michael Alimax AL, 2 years ago
    Wow amazing !! Finally I found the Desktop version of the PopUp Player YouTube Add-ons. I've been a fan of Mozilla Firefox since its inception. Although these add-ons are not at the very top of the search for add-ons, but after I use them they work very well as expected. Of course there are a few configurations that must be adjusted to suit your needs. Its name is YouTube Popout Player (not Popup Player) but the purpose and function is the same, namely being able to play the YouTube Mini Player flying over anywhere in Windows. Thank you very much for the creator of these add-ons as well as Software Developers, it is really very useful. Love From 🇮🇩 Indonesia.
  • by Сергей, 3 years ago
  • by Peter, 3 years ago
    This add-on does exactly what I was looking for. It always annoys me that Youtubes miniplayer disappears when switching to a new tab. This popout player solves that problem and does a great job!
  • by Firefox user 13310142, 3 years ago
    Amazing, just what I was looking for, love it!
  • by sosatxoxlam, 3 years ago
    Great, the only lacking feature is to be able to place the button icon on the video preview to have the opportunity to run video from the main page.
    UPD: Yes, I know, but I would like to open the video in one click, as in this addon Popup Video(WebExtension).
    Thanks for the excellent addon.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Thank you for the review!

    If you right-click on any video thumbnail, there should be a "Open Video in Popout Player" and/or "Open Playlist in Popout Player" option you can use to open it directly.

    If there's another use case you have in mind, feel free to open an issue on GitHub (https://github.com/rthaut/YouTubePopoutPlayer/issues), where you can add a screenshot to help explain.
  • by alefith, 3 years ago
    Perfect, the only lacking feature is to be able to place the popup when choosing a custom size.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    This feature is now available in version 4.0.0. You can either manually enter the position values (similar to the size values), or you can set it to "remember" the size and/or position from where you last had the popup positioned.
  • by Bred, 4 years ago
  • by unknown14725, 4 years ago
    Works well, except on videos where the video ID is not in the URL itself (i.e. live streams). Example: https://www.youtube.com/c/euronews/live
  • by Firefox user 15567412, 5 years ago
    been using this for ages plus a program called DeskPins that allows you to set a window to be always on top. (theres a setting that allows you to put a custom string in the window title that deskpins can search for) Unfortunately for the developer Firefox enabled functionality that makes this method redundant.
  • by Lizzie99, 5 years ago
  • by Firefox user 14525586, 5 years ago
    Served it's purpose well. No longer need it now that Firefox supports Picture-in-Picture.
  • by Saeed Daneshi, 5 years ago
    doesn't works
  • by Tads, 5 years ago
    I gave it 3 because the lack of "stay on top" and this one issue....

    if you have the window open and then force quit Firefox for any reason then when you re-open it (with the restore session checked) the pop out window is now missing the "top bar" and you cannot close the window.
  • by FLOmaster, 5 years ago
  • by Juan Simón, 5 years ago