The platform par excellence to watch entertainment content on demand today is YouTube. We have access to a huge variety of content from different creators that can entertain us or learn, among others. We are going to show you a total of six different add-ons to improve the YouTube experience in the Firefox browser.
Although Chrome is the most used browser, many users use Firefox today. This is a highly rated, free and open source browser that has the same or more capabilities than the Google browser.
If you are one of those who uses this browser often to browse, you should know that you have nothing to envy other solutions. Now, we bring you a set of six add-ons for YouTube for the Firefox browser to improve the user experience.
Enhancer for YouTube
If you only want to install one plugin to get the most out of YouTube, this is it. Enecer for YouTube allows us to make a large number of adjustments such as changing the size of the video player, the speed and volume of playback or correcting buffering problems, among many others.
It has a set of prominent features that are presented in the “Control Bar” and then an advanced “Settings” page where we have more options. It also includes a “Cinema mode” that allows you to adjust the size of the mini player according to the dimensions of the device.
Improve YouTube
The function of this ‘add-on’ is precisely to eliminate all the distractions that we have within any YouTube page. Improve YouTube allows you to make different adjustments that radically change the use of the video platform.
Thanks to this plugin we will not have to endure related search results, reels and short videos, trends and history. It also allows you to hide animated thumbnails and videos that we have already seen. Additionally, this plugin allows you to hide and collapse empty sections on YouTube pages for a cleaner experience.
YouTube High Definition
This is a very interesting plugin that allows you to improve the image quality of any video. It allows you to scale the video quality up to 8K resolution, thus improving the quality of the content. The only drawback, so to speak, is that for videos with Full HD resolution or higher, the improvement is minimal.
It mainly focuses on old low-quality videos, content taken with old cameras or low-light content. Very interesting, especially in the latter case, allowing you to see the dark areas more clearly.
AdBlocker for YouTube
The platform has long been implementing important measures to prevent the use of ad blockers. The best option to remove ads that works very well is AdBlocker for YouTube. This is a very simple plugin that does what it promised, no more, no less.
It’s not perfect, it has some problems. It may be that when you access a new video, in the same tab, you see blank pieces with many hidden videos. It is also possible that you will encounter blank screens even when you reload the page. Additionally, the blocker may not work properly at times, as YouTube constantly changes the code to prevent us from blocking ads.
Turn Off the Lights for Firefox
Personally, this is the plugin that I always have installed in my browsers and that I use the most. What this plugin does is generate a more “cinematic” experience by simply dimming everything around the video. It generates a more attractive kind of night view.
We are talking about a really simple plugin to use. Simply press the bulb icon to turn the lights off or on again. You don’t have to do anything else to use this add-on.
YouTube Nonstop
Something that bothers me a lot when I play a long music session is that the video stops automatically. After an hour of background playback, it pauses and the message appears: “Video paused. Continue watching? Thanks to the YouTube Nonstop plugin I no longer have this problem.
It doesn’t do much else, it just prevents playback from pausing when we have it in the background or we are watching it. And YouTube has copied the function of Netflix and other platforms that, when you haven’t interacted for a while, pause playback. Simply by clicking on the icon, you can put the video in the background and it will never stop.
