Video is one of those types of content that hasn’t stopped growing in use lately on most computers around the world. And we are not only referring to those videos that we reproduce on YouTube or similar, but to many others that we see both locally and online.
Here the different on-demand cinema platforms come into play via streaming such as Netflix, or the movies and series that we see locally. In addition, all this can be extended to both desktop and mobile environments . It is worth mentioning that to a large extent for this broad growth, several elements have come into play. Firstly, it is worth noting the good Internet connections that we have today.
In addition to all this we also add the powerful teams that as a general rule we can draw on at the moment. All this together with the versatility in use proposed by this type of content in particular, makes the use of videos comparable today to that of photos or audio. This just a few years ago would have seemed almost unthinkable.
The YouTube platform does not stop growing in use
But with everything and with it, one of the great references in this regard continues to be the almighty online video platform , the aforementioned YouTube . We use it from all kinds of devices, environments and systems. Its success is largely due to its inexhaustible amount of content made available to everyone.
However, despite all the facilities and functions that this online video proposal offers us, we can also improve the experience with it. This we are going to achieve thanks to a series of extensions that we are going to use in the most used Internet browser in the world, Google Chrome . With this we mean the use of small programs that are attached to the browser itself and that somehow improve the operation of YouTube.
Chrome extensions to get more out of YouTube
As we say, below we will talk about a series of extensions for the browser owned by the search giant. These usually offer their own functions that we do not find by default in the video portal in order to increase their usefulness and comfort of use.
Better Subscriptions for Youtube
To start we will talk about the extension called Better Subscriptions for Youtube, an element that is responsible for facilitating navigation through the YouTube subscription network by hiding the videos viewed. Thus, it has a switch in the subscription that allows us to choose whether we want the videos we have seen to appear again, or not.
It is clear that the objective of all this is to make navigating the panel of our subscriptions much easier and faster to see new content .
YouTube Watcher
We are going to achieve something similar with this other extension for the Google browser, specifically we refer to YouTube Watcher. And is that this proposal will also be helpful when moving through the videos that interest us most.
In this way what it does is offer us the possibility of hiding previously viewed videos. At the same time adds the ability to mark videos as seen and clicking the right mouse button on the thumbnail itself. Thus we save ourselves from having to access content that we have seen in the past but that we do not remember.
Enhancer for YouTube
There is no doubt that this proposal is one of the best known when talking about extensions to improve YouTube . This is because it presents us with a good number of functions to improve our streaming portal experience. Among these we can highlight the possibility of controlling the volume level and the playback speed with the mouse wheel, for example.
We also managed to eliminate the advertising of the videos, delete the annotations included, specify a preferred format, use custom themes, or increase the size of the player, among many other things.
Invideo for Youtube
On the other hand we are going to find Invideo for Youtube, another proposal of this type for Chrome that allows us to improve searches on YouTube. Specifically, what it allows us to do is search within the videos on the platform. As you can imagine, among other things, this will allow us to jump directly to our favorite parts of certain content on the portal.
At the same time we can skip the parts of the video that we are not interested in to go directly to what we really want to see.
Looper for YouTube
As we can deduce from the name of this specific extension, this software we are talking about allows us to enjoy the videos we like the most. This is something that is achieved because the extension as such is in charge of automatically repeating the YouTube titles that we indicate.
It is evident that all this we are going to be able to carry out comfortably without having to press the corresponding button that the player offers us.
Turn off the lights
In order to enjoy the best way of playing videos on the platform we have been talking about, we can also use this proposal. It is an extension that by itself is responsible for darkening the screen background to improve the viewing experience.
Thus, what we achieve is being able to focus our attention on the video itself, not on what surrounds the playback area. Of course, once we want everything to return to normal, we will only have to click on the extension button again.
Magic Actions for YouTube
This is another of the alternatives for YouTube in Chrome that allows us to improve the portal experience in various ways. In this way and after its integration into Chrome, we can make all the videos begin to play in HD quality or higher. We will also have a cinema mode for viewing videos, we have 20 predefined color themes, and we can take captures of the reproduction and save them in a specific image format.
We will also have the possibility to establish whether it is day or night, delete the history, or preview the rankings of related videos, among other things.
Floating Video for YouTube
As you can imagine, this extension is in charge of keeping the YouTube video always playing in full view. Specifically, place the window in a corner of the screen, always visible, once we scroll down the web , for example to read the comments.
