Four Greasemonkey Scripts to improve Youtube

Youtube is the most popular video portal on the Internet, that is without question. There are however several annoyances like automatic video playback that irritate at least some users. I collected four Greasemonkey scripts that improve Youtube, that either add functions or remove functions and elements that are not necessary for watching the videos.

You need to have Greasemonkey installed which can be downloaded as a Firefox add-on from Mozilla. The following five scripts will add some great functions to Youtube, a resize function for the videos or RSS feeds for user searches and more.

Greasmonkey scripts are installed in a similar fashion as Firefox add-ons. The browser does not need to be closed though, only the current tab needs to be refreshed, or a new one opened to make the script work.

Youtube RSS Feed

Adds a RSS feed tag to the Firefox address bar for user and tag searches.

Youtube Prevent Autoplay

Don’t you hate it when videos start playing automatically when you are on Youtube ? Users with slow connections surely do. This script replaces the Youtube player that autostarts videos with one that does not.

Youtube Cleaner

Removes comments and related sidebar from video pages with the option to restore them when needed.

YousableTubeFix

Makes it possible to resize videos played on Youtube and removes ads as well. Could not get the download video function to work though

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Tags: firefox, greasemonkey, greasmonkey scripts, mozilla, youtube
Categories: Browsing, Music and Video, firefox

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5 Responses to “Four Greasemonkey Scripts to improve Youtube”

1. Verdican says:

   January 25, 2008 at 6:11 am

   Those are great Greasemonkey scripts, and I highly recommend the YousableTubeFix script. I also haven’t been able to use the video download function, but I’ve heard it had something to do with the Firefox updates, so I’m guessing it’s going to be fixed soon. If you’re going to be downloading any YouTube Greasemonkey script; YousableTubeFix is the one to get. (Also note that YousableTubeFix has just be updated today.)

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2. l3utterfish says:

   January 25, 2008 at 12:02 pm

   defenitly yousabletubefix the better

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3. Iain Cheyne says:

   January 27, 2008 at 2:14 am

   I like Lifehacker’s Better Youtube Firefox Extension.

   http://lifehacker.com/software/exclusive-lifehacker-download/better-youtube-firefox-extension-319925.php

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