Description
Improves the viewing experience of YouTube livestreams with an enhanced theater mode.
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Overall Rank
Extension Rank
"Youtube" Keyword
"Show" Keyword
"Overlay" Keyword
"Permissions" Keyword
"Permission" Keyword
"Live" Keyword
"Hover" Keyword
"Display" Keyword
"Chat" Keyword
"Currency" Keyword
Featured Rank
Review Summary
Users praise 'YouTube Livestreams Theater Mode' for enhancing livestream viewing with integrated chat, customization, and cleaner UI compared to other extensions. It supports widescreen layouts and full screen toggling, improving user experience greatly. However, multiple reviews note issues with occasional breakage following YouTube updates, causing UI malfunctions and crashes, especially on Edge. Some users dislike the chat placement on the side and request more layout options. There are also reports of the dark theme not always working and streaming performance problems. Overall, it's valued but has stability and layout improvement requests.
Pros
- Effectively enables a better theater mode experience for YouTube livestreams, enhancing viewing by combining video and chat.
- Allows customization and adjustments that improve usability, such as menu configuration and supporting ultrawide screens.
- Removes or hides unwanted elements like static UI parts, profile pictures, and colored usernames for a cleaner look.
- Works better than similar extensions (e.g., better than 'truffle'), supporting additional chat enhancements (BTTV, 7TV).
- Supports full screen toggle with F11 and works well with multiple screen formats, including widescreen and ultrawide.
Cons
- Extension occasionally breaks or becomes unstable, especially after YouTube site updates, causing issues like broken layout or small video display.
- Some users experience crashes or memory leaks on browsers like Edge, leading to instability and unusable states.
- The chat positioning (side chat) is not preferred by some users who want it below the video as in YouTube's previous layout or Twitch's style.
- Force dark theme option does not always work as expected, defaulting to light mode at times.
- The extension may cause livestreams to lag or freeze for some users, reducing streaming performance.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
Additional Information
4.1.1
January 12, 2025
0.04 MB
en
Developer Information
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