Youtube displays preview images of the videos on their pages to give their visitors an indication of a video’s quality and contents. The static image stills are shown on the Youtube start page, on search pages, playlists and basically on every page that links to video pages that are hosted on the video portal.
Youtube Thumbs is a small Google Chrome extension – it actually is a userscript and not an extension – that turns the static images into a sequence of images of the selected video giving the user a better impression and preview of the video.
The extension is automatically active after installation in the Google Chrome browser. It only works directly on Youtube and not on other websites that embed Youtube videos.
Hovering the mouse over a Youtube video will display a sequence of image stills from the video after a short load time. The time it takes to display the images of the video depend largely on the user’s Internet connection.
Youtube Thumbs offers an unobtrusive option to preview Youtube videos. Google Chrome users can download and install the Chrome extension directly from the Chrome Extensions gallery.
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