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Auto High Quality for YouTube™

by balvin.perrie

v0.5.0 Updated Feb 27, 2026 65.89KiB
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Description

This extension automatically changes the YouTube video quality to a user-selected high-quality resolution. Features: 1. Select the highest quality by default 2. Do not change the quality if high resolution is already selected (optional feature) 3. Allows the user to select almost all available qualities. 4. It is possible to disable more than 30 FPS frame rates (optional feature). Use it if you don't have a bandwidth problem, but your browser cannot handle high-frame-rate playing. 5. Use different qualities for visible and hidden YouTube players (optional feature) Some Use Cases: 1. YouTube starts at low quality, but I want to watch at high resolution. 2. YouTube automatically increases quality which causes the loader to appear once per while. I don't want the player to alter the resolution. 3. YouTube switches to 60 frame rate mode, but my browser drops frames.
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Reviews (24 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-01
Timothy Jones

It only changes resolution when I open the plugin and refresh tab, the next youtube video I click on will be in 360p again.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-17
Khan Industries

Not working for me, at all.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-30
А. Т.

Idiotic extension! The quality rides back and forth!

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-23
Gabe B

The extension doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-06
Szymon Skworc

Does not automatically change quality

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-05
Polyculture

Doesn't work. Very frustrating. Not worth your time...

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-08
Matt Faraday

Stopped working. I've had this installed since Youtube reduced the default quality during the COVID pandemic in 2020. But today I was watching a video and I thought hmm this is low quality, sure enough, it was being shown to me in 720p when a 4K version was available. So I tested it a bit more and yeah it just doesn't work any more and the developer seems to have quietly stopped working on it 8 months ago in 2023. Time to move to a new plugin. It was good while it lasted, but it doesn't work any more.

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-28
Lukas Zuikis

Maybe works once every 20 videos? Not sure if it does at all actually

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-17
Charalambos Papoutsis

It's useless. It doesn't make any quality enhancements whatsoever. For example, I want to enhance 1080 videos online to 2160, which is 4K, but the extension will not do this. Yet, if you go on the developer website, they claim you can actually enhance the quality of a video beyond what is shown. I really wish there was a video quality enhancement add-on. There are colour enhancements which make the colour gamut of videos pop out more, but that's about it. Sometimes a video is a little blurry or I want to sharpen the pixels further.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-25
Shi Kuan Chung

Useless

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-21
Will Ashley

pathetic buggy trash. resets the quality after the user changes it explicitly.

★☆☆☆☆2024-02-04
aranza

sometimes it works, sometimes not

★☆☆☆☆2023-02-18
Baris Sarial

not working

★☆☆☆☆2022-12-23
Matthew McClain

Doesn't work, youtube still keeps dropping the quality down to SD anyway.

★☆☆☆☆2021-10-30
Some “Kubert” Guy

This does not work

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-08
Kurt C

Not working, September 2021

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-09
Michael

Not working as of Feb '21

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-17
Seychellian

Didnt work for me July 2020

★★☆☆☆2024-10-29
Sabrina Eliana Ricci

It seems to have stopped working. When it was working it still paused frequently too when YouTube would try to turn down the resolution and the addon would turn it back up so that was annoying but still better than it being a lower resolution I guess

★★☆☆☆2024-01-24
Obliquity Writes

Only really works sporadically now, and when it does, it takes quite a long time to start, and then to reload and start buffering again. So you get a few seconds of sound - in my case, often without the moving picture - and then it stops, blacks out and reloads. When it was first installed, it didn't do this, and I've not installed anything new since that might be clashing. I still had to manually select quality quite frequently, but it didn't do the annoying reloading thing when it did work. Not sure if there's a bug or if a browser update is clashing.

★★☆☆☆2022-04-12
Kaley McDonough

This extension kind of worked for some period of time. However, I don't think it works anymore. When it did work it would not allow you to switch the quality down to a lower quality. This was an issue when a video had a 2160p option: especially when increasing the playback speed the video would stutter. So, when I attempted to lower the quality it would automatically set it back to 2160p.

★★★☆☆2024-11-18
Rickard Åberg

Good when it worked but seems like it stopped working, version 131 broke it. It defaults to highest quality now and the UI is broken.

★★★☆☆2024-05-27
Jake

almost perfect but like others said it doesnt recognize enhanced bitrate mode EDIT: no longer works

★★★☆☆2024-04-29
Stephen Chu (朱朱)

Doesn't seem to recognize the new 1080p Premium quality.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.5.0
Updated Feb 27, 2026
Size 65.89KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026