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YouTube Embed & Shorts EX

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Improve the experience of using YouTube Embeds and Shorts and some misc YouTube stuff including adding a volume boost and pan zoom video. Also it attempt to fix some of YouTube bugs.

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1.9.2.19
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The main features of this extension is to enhance YouTube Embed experience since YouTube now moving to their mobile player for embed which lacks a lot of features that were there on the previous embed player. But this extension is not just about embed! There are other enhancements that affects normal YouTube and Shorts. The big ones are:

  • Volume Extender where you can go up to 600% in volume!
  • Pan and Zoom video where you can easily pan and zoom a video using either just your keyboard or keyboard and mouse combination!

This should also fixes some problems with YouTube, especially in embed with the volume icon/slider behavior.

For the complete options you can read the followings.

In YouTube Embed it adds:

  • A dark theme.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to change volume.
  • Double click to toggle full screen.
  • 5s seek.
  • Hide UI when paused.
  • Menu at top right.
  • Number keys to Jump (1 is go to 10%, 9 is got to 90%).
  • Playback speed shortcut like in standard YouTube.
  • Volume scroll to change volume using mouse scroll wheel.
  • Close Stats for Nerds by pressing the X icon.
  • Right click menu.
  • Running out of buffer fix.
  • Hide "more videos" button.
  • "Classic" overlay arrangement.
  • Functional Share button.
  • Fix Volume icon mute bug.
  • Overlay instant timeout.

In YouTube Shorts it adds:

  • Keyboard shortcuts to seek.
  • Keyboard shortcuts to change volume.
  • Keep CC and Full Screen icon in view when the window is too small.
  • Full Windowed mode which is like Full Screen but only expand to the current window.
  • Double Click to toggle full screen.
  • Speed Options.

Misc:

  • The ability to pop out live chat chat without leaving an empty space.
  • Thumbnail will fit to the video window instead of being cropped.
  • Now you can double click to exit full screen when the video ended on standard YouTube.
  • Move frame by frame using the same shortcut button as standard YouTube (for Embed and Shorts).
  • Screenshot shortcut.
  • Thumbnail saving.
  • Volume scroll on the main YouTube player.
  • Volume extender to increase the volume up to 600%.
  • Pan and Zoom video.
  • Seek Multiplier.
  • Experimental - Avoid buffering.
  • Disable YouTube native zoom.

*The YouTube videos in the background that being used on the screenshot is purely to show the UI.

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dark mode

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Package last updated on 26 Aug 2026

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