Get More from Youtube using Google Chrome

YouTube has a lot of built-in features that let you customize how you watch videos and clips, including Full Screen mode, quality settings and Watch Later. However, there are many brilliant Chrome extensions that take things a step further and let you watch videos exactly how and when you want to.



In this article, we have handpicked our favourites. YouTube Feed ensures you never miss new videos from your favourite feeds, while Youtube Thumbs previews videos before you click to watch them. You can see which videos are popular with YouTube Ratings Preview, toggle comments on or off, or repeat clips and whole videos using Auto Replay.



To control the volume and playback of multiple videos, we recommend YouTube Volume Controller. And if you want to control the size of the player and get rid of other distractions, with the Picture-in-Picture extension the video will start playing in a small pop-up window. YouTube Window Expander and Turn Off the Lights.



YouTube Options for Chrome lets you control YouTube’s settings. You can adjust the viewing size and quality of windows; disable the auto-play feature; hide in-video ads and annotations; enable auto-buffering; and allow hardware acceleration for Flash. You can also set ‘https’ as default. There is a preview pane, so you can see exactly what the changes will look like.

Each add-on is available from the Chrome Web Store, and you can enable, disable or remove them by going to Tools, then Extensions.