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First look at Microsoft Edge’s Follow Creator feature on YouTube
If you follow your favorite YouTube channels and subscribe to get notifications for new content, there is a whole new way to do that in Microsoft Edge through Follow Creator feature. Edge lets you follow desired YouTube Creators and... More of this article »
Microsoft Edge crashes when you watch YouTube Videos in Full screen
Some users on online forums reported Microsoft Edge freezes and crashes when they watch a Youtube video on Full Screen. The issue seems to have majorly affected the stable version, Edge 90. Microsoft said it is looking into the issue... More of this article »
Don’t like YouTube’s new design on desktop? Here is how you can disable that in Chrome and Firefox browsers
YouTube has redesigned the site’s home page and the new look is now rolling out from November 07, 2019 onwards across desktops and YouTube apps on Android and iOS Tablets with bigger thumbnails and Add to Queue feature. If you... More of this article »
Fix YouTube is broken in Microsoft Edge Chromium 80
It’s not uncommon to see a website getting broken in Chrome Canary, recently Chromium developers have broken the YouTube for the second time in this year by enabling deprecated HTML Imports, as a result of that, YouTube site... More of this article »
YouTube is now showing Thumbnail Previews for Videos in Firefox browser
Good news for Firefox users, YouTube is now showing thumbnail previews for videos on its site, this is not the case before. Lack of WebP support could be the core reason for YouTube not to serve animated thumbnails for its videos in... More of this article »
Chrome now shows Global Media Controls UI in the Toolbar for YouTube Videos
Till now we’ve seen Chrome and Edge displaying Media Control Overlays for YouTube Videos when media keys are pressed, Google Chrome now introduced “Global Media Controls UI” in Canary version 77 and it can be enabled... More of this article »
Chrome Picture in Picture mode now shows Previous and Next Track buttons for Playlists on YouTube
Picture in Picture mode in Chrome browser is getting improved. Recently, we’ve covered Google updated PIP UI for the first time and shows YouTube video info in an overlay when you use media keys, to the latest, PIP mode now shows... More of this article »
Chrome and Edge display YouTube Videos info in an Overlay
Since sometime, for now, Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers are displaying Media Controls Overlay if you use media keys while videos are playing, there is another development taken place, Microsoft worked with Google to... More of this article »
YouTube with new design not supported in Edge Chromium, You can make it work this way
Google is trying to say one point to Edge Chromium users, again and again, your browser is not supported in their websites such as Meet, Google Docs, Google Drive and Google Earth, you can add one more Google site to that list, YouTube.... More of this article »
Yes! YouTube is broken in Chrome Canary, Make it work again this way
If you visit YouTube in latest Chrome Canary, you’ll notice the site is broken with page showing gray thumbnails for videos, the reason is this: Google has removed HTML Imports in Canary and if you open developer tools and visit... More of this article »
YouTube in full screen now lets you scroll down video to see description and comments
YouTube has added ‘Scroll for details’ option to videos playing on the Web in full screen. While watching a video in full screen on YouTube, without needing to exit the full screen the user can now able to scroll down below... More of this article »
How to Play AV1 Videos on YouTube in Chrome 70, Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera
Chrome 70 released recently has addressed the auto sign-in issue in the browser issue by offering a setting, apart from that and other changes, the browser has got AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) decoder. For the uninitiated, AV1 is the latest... More of this article »
YouTube is rolling out Time Watched and Take a break Reminder features
Wondering how much time you’ve spent in a day watching videos on YouTube and wish there could be a reminder that alerts you to take a break? YouTube has now built these tools into its app in the user account menu on Android and... More of this article »
Get Material Design for YouTube website in desktop Chrome right now
You can now enable Material design for YouTube site in Google Chrome browser on the desktop, follow the instructions below for that. This has worked for us in Chrome, it also works in other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and... More of this article »
Mozilla removes YouTube Unblocker add-on from AMO because of malicious behavior
Popular YouTube Unblocker extension hosted on AMO has been blocked and removed by Mozilla. The extension which lets you watch blocked videos on YouTube via Proxy in Firefox browser, once installed, has been found to install a third-party... More of this article »
YouTube makes channel Videos Private and shows ‘This channel has no content’ message to Public
Seems YouTube has messed up something by making unannounced changes, as YouTube channel videos for some, are not shown, and to the public, Google video sharing site showed channel page with message ‘this channel has no content‘. Fix... More of this article »
YouTube offers Loop Option for Videos on desktop browsers
Finally, YouTube is now offering the loop option for its videos, users who need to repeat videos on YouTube, need to right click on video that is playing and select Loop option. This is now available to desktop users only, but not... More of this article »
How to Stop YouTube from Sharing Videos added to Playlist tweets on Twitter
Whenever you upload a video to YouTube and publish, if you’ve connected your Twitter account to your YouTube account, a tweet on behalf of you will be automatically shared on Twitter, that’s completely fine, but the following... More of this article »
Fix Firefox 41.0.2 is lagging, Slow and freezes on YouTube
Firefox users on latest version 41.0.2 noticed their browser as slow, lagging and freezes or hangs sometimes on YouTube when playing videos, it turns out that out Skype Click to Call added to Firefox 41.0.2 by recent Skype update... More of this article »
Firefox 43+: Remove ‘youtube.com is now full screen’ notification
Firefox 42 and previous versions offer a preference in about:config called full-screen-api.approval-required, by toggling its value to false we can able to disable YouTube.com is now fullscreen message. Some developments have happened... More of this article »
Fix Ublock or ABP doesn’t block YouTube Ads in Chrome
Try this if you see YouTube ads despite ad blocker installed in Chrome browser. A bug in Chrome 45+ versions causing YouTube ads to sneak through Ad blocking extensions –like Ublock Origin, Adblock Plus and other –and displayed... More of this article »
Firefox 43: Mozilla makes Full Screen Messages for YouTube Videos Less Annoying
Mozilla improves video full Screen viewing experience in Nightly by removing the annoying message that seeks your permission. At present in Firefox 40, whenever you try to watch a video on YouTube in full screen, you’ll be shown... More of this article »
Where is ‘Watch Later’ button in the new YouTube Player?
YouTube has rolled out its new player with a slicker design to all using the browsers across the platforms. The player UI is designed in such a way it doesn’t come in your way and offers transparent, auto hiding controls. Watch... More of this article »How to Stop HTML5 Videos AutoPlay in Firefox through a Preference
Prevent Firefox browser from autoplaying YouTube HTML5 videos. Thanks to click-to-play, which blocks flash videos from autoplaying in Firefox and Chrome browsers, now we need to find a solution for HTML5 videos as well. Have you annoyed... More of this article »
Opera Software Releases new browser.js file to Fix YouTube Issue on 32-bit Windows 7
Opera software is trying to fix Opera 30’s YouTube issue on Windows 7 with a new browser.js version. 32-bit Windows 7 users have problems in playing videos on YouTube site in Opera 30, Opera software has acknowledged that and... More of this article »Fix YouTube videos not Playing in Opera 30 [Updated]
Yesterday released Opera 30 stable enables Media Source Extensions (MSE) & H.264 support in the browser, which allows users to watch 60FPS videos on YouTube. After upgrading from Opera 29, some users noticed YouTube videos not... More of this article »Google Fixes YouTube Videos’ Black Screen Issue in Chrome
YouTube’s black screen issue fixed. Yesterday, most Chrome users encountered black screen during the playback of videos on YouTube, while audio still plays, user can able to fix it in that situation by clicking on the pause and... More of this article »
Disable Firefox’s ‘youtube.com is now fullscreen. Press Esc at any time to exit’ Message
Whenever you visit YouTube or any video sharing site, and try to play a video in full screen, a message appears on top saying ‘YouTube is now fullscreen. Press Esc at any time to exit.’ When you click ‘Allow’... More of this article »
Noise Control Add-on Shows Audio Indicators for HTML5 Video Playing Tabs in Firefox
Chrome natively shows audio indicators for music playing tabs in its browser, Firefox users miss this feature, fortunately, Noise Control add-on now shows audio indicators for HTML5 video or audio playing tabs in the Firefox browser.... More of this article »
Chrome Canary Now Lets You Mute That Audio Playing Tab
Most requested feature after the addition of ‘Audio indicator’ to the music playing tab in Chrome is to ‘click to mute’ that tab, guess what? Chromium team has heard you and added an experimental flag in Canary,... More of this article »![Image for Fix YouTube’s ‘An error occurred, please try again later’ [Updated]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Youtube-showing-error-occured_thumb.png)
Fix YouTube’s ‘An error occurred, please try again later’ [Updated]
When you visit YouTube site and attempt to play a video on it, it won’t, instead the video player throws the error ‘An error occurred, please try again later’, let us see how we can make the video to play again on... More of this article »
Google makes HTML5 Player default for Playing Videos on YouTube in Chrome
Today if you visit YouTube.com and play any video in the Chrome browser, it will be played by HTML5 Player instead of Flash, this applies to all videos in the popular video sharing site and you simply can’t switch to Flash Player... More of this article »
Enable Media Source Extensions in Firefox for a better YouTube Player
While Google Chrome browser uses HTML5 player on the YouTube site for playing videos whenever possible, but that’s not the case with Firefox, the default player currently supports HTMLVideoElement, H.264, WebM VP8 and good... More of this article »
How to Enable Screen Recording feature of Snagit in Google Chrome?
With Snagit 11.3 version, TechSmith has introduced Google Drive support and it has also released app and extension for their screen capturing product on the Web Store then. Yesterday, TechSmith has updated Snagit for Chrome on online... More of this article »
Opera releases browser.js patch for YouTube Issue
Opera software has came to know that selected videos in YouTube no longer playing in their browser, upon further investigation they found the fault on YouTube’s side with recently introduced coded selection. Opera has released... More of this article »
Automatically Resume YouTube Videos from Where You Paused or Left
If you’re looking for Firefox extension that resumes previously seen videos from where you saw last time without playing from the beginning, look no further install Video Resumer without any second thoughts. YouTube hasn’t got... More of this article »
Google Takeout Now Lets you Download All Your Original YouTube Videos
Google Takeout tool, data liberation service which Google created for users to download data from their Google services gets the support to download all videos uploaded by YouTube user. Till now YouTube allows to download transcoded... More of this article »![Image for Hide Comments on YouTube with YouTube Comment Blocker [Firefox Extension]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hide-comments-on-YouTube_thumb.png)
Hide Comments on YouTube with YouTube Comment Blocker [Firefox Extension]
YouTube doesn’t offers option for their viewers/users to turn off or hide comments, sometimes it can happen to you as you curiously scroll down below a YouTube video to see what others are saying, you will be annoyed with... More of this article »
Google Fixes Chrome Crashes on YouTube
Since few past days lot of Google Chrome users reporting they’re experiencing crashes on YouTube, when users tries to close YouTube tab after watching the video Chrome just hangs -users need to restart the browser where Chrome restores... More of this article »
Auto-Repeat YouTube Videos in Chrome: YouTurn
If you want view any video repeatedly on YouTube you need to keep hitting the “Replay” button at the end of it whether that video could be latest sensation Kollevari Di, Flash Mob or related to kids or pets, your intervention... More of this article »
YouTube Quality Selector Automatically Plays YouTube Videos with Suitable Quality
YouTube offers various qualities to watch its videos on browsers from 240p to 1080p where YouTube determines the highest quality to play for you by depending on the player size you’re using. You can change the quality while watching... More of this article »
Watch YouTube Videos on Your Desktop with YTWatcher
YTWatcher is desktop application for YouTube allows to watch videos from your subscribed channels, YouTube allows to watch them why is the need for this app? by default YouTube subscription page has limit of 100 videos, you bound to... More of this article »
Watch Indian Union Budget 2011 Live on YouTube
Today Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will present government’s Union budget for 2011-12 financial year in Parliament at 11 AM IST, are you eager to watch it on online that too on YouTube, good news is YouTube is partnered... More of this article »
ExtendTube for Opera Extends YouTube Player Capabilities
ExtendTube Opera extension adds few options to control YouTube videos playback and adds an option to download them. This extension adds few buttons beneath YouTube Video player which allows to loop video playback, seek video back... More of this article »
MP32FLV : Upload MP3s to YouTube and Facebook
You heard right guys!, MP32FLV is a cool online service that lets you to upload MP3 files to YouTube and Facebook. This site allows you to convert an MP3 file and JPEG image to a video and then automatically uploads to YouTube or Facebook. Update:... More of this article »
SnipSnip.it : Crop and Share Your Favorite Parts of YouTube Videos with Ease
If you want to share your favorite part of a YouTube video with your friends through email or on social networks online you can use SnipSnip.it. SnipSnip.it is a cool online service that allows to share part of YouTube video... More of this article »
Faveous : Aggregates All Your Favorites from Twitter, Google Reader,YouTube and Facebook in One Place
Are you in difficult to find your favorited items on Twitter, Google Reader, don’t worry Faveous which is in Beta collects all your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader, (and soon YouTube and Facebook “likes on links” ) in... More of this article »