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YouTube Fast Fullscreen Toggle

by zimbico

v2.10.0 Updated Apr 19, 2024 21.68KiB
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Description

There's an annoying lag period when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video. On my machine, it's normally ~2 seconds; but with a large playlist expanded, it gets up to ~3 seconds. This extension reduces the transition time to almost nothing. Supported fullscreen transitions: - Clicking the fullscreen button - Pressing the F key - Double-clicking the video Unsupported fullscreen transitions (still slow): - Escape - F11 Note that Firefox doesn't seem to have the same issue as Chrome; so in Firefox the improvement is barely noticeable. In Vivaldi, there is unfortunately an intermediate step in the fullscreen transition, which I can't seem to do anything to avoid. It appears to be due to the toolbars being hidden/shown at a different moment to when the browser actually enters/leaves fullscreen. Technical detail: This bug's been present for years now, and I got so sick of it that I spent one night experimenting to find a way to avoid it - and I found one! The extra HTML content on the page (playlist, recommendations, comments, description, likes, etc.) is pretty heavy, and when you toggle fullscreen, YouTube moves it around in the DOM, which ends up incuring a fair bit of processing. I've worked out that it's significantly faster to hide that extra content before transitioning, then display it again afterwards once it's reached its new position.
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Reviews (9 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-01
KPKana1726

fix your extentioijn it does not do anything with to make YouTube exit Fullscreen instanly

★☆☆☆☆2024-05-14
Mohammad Nasir Uddin Sarker

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-01-27
Jan

Did not work.

★☆☆☆☆2023-05-10
Pierre “Ridou” Brunet

Still slow

★★☆☆☆2022-02-19
lorenzo checcarelli

I have an i7 11700K and rtx 3080 ti, 32gb RAM DDR4 4000Mhz CL16. And it works only once every 30 times ahahahah. The Youtube site is badly optimized, this extension is even worse. Do not download it, It works only when it want ahahah. The developer is even worst than google ones.

★★☆☆☆2021-05-01
Yassine Sabbar

still buggy

★★★☆☆2022-02-27
Adarsh Nair

It works better than the default transition but sometimes shows a grey bar for a few seconds on the player where the media controls (pause, volume slider, timer) are. Sometimes the transition gets slowed down when there's multiple tabs on chrome and takes around 3 to 5 seconds. Please fix this issue. Other than that, there's no issues and it works great! Thanks for this extension!

★★★☆☆2021-03-01
Dukinlere trivalichalipa

Hey man, thanks for making this but its not working on chrome for me

★★★☆☆2021-02-18
Ivan Nanić

The effect is slight but noticeable but it introduces an annoying bug: it captures your keyboard input for the the "F" key so you can't type that letter when you want to leave a comment or search for another video. Instead it tries to go fullscreen. Tested on Vivaldi 3.6.2165.36, Windows 10 1909.

Details

Version 2.10.0
Updated Apr 19, 2024
Size 21.68KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026