YouTube Anywhere Player Version History

24 versions

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Version 3.0 63.8 KiB Works with Firefox 48.0 - 56.*, SeaMonkey 2.48 - 2.48

✔ Electrolysis/multi-process compatibility.

✔ Added support for streamable.com

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For now, the context-menu search functionality is disabled, until i can figure how to achieve the same in an e10s-compatible way...

Version 2.9.4 53.1 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 49.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.32

Fixed compatibility issue on Firefox 45+ causing the player unable to be closed.

Version 2.9.3 53.1 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 45.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.32

- Fixed for Firefox 41+

Version 2.9.2.1-signed 53.0 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 41.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.32

✔ Added support for the sites vidmax and vidme

✔ Fixed bug causing the player to open multiple times.

Version 2.9.1.1-signed 53.0 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 38.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.32

✔ Fixed "Enabled on Site" for framed documents.

✔ Fixed "Use rounded Corners" option.

✔ Some other minor fixes.

Version 2.9.0.1-signed 52.9 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 31.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.24

✔ Clicking on non-clickable text links will now bring the player too as long "watch?v=xyz" is found. You can hold down CTRL if you want to prevent that behavior.

✔ Added option to open the player minimized.

Version 2.8.7.1-signed 52.8 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 30.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.24

✔ Support for "attribution_link"-tagged YT video playlists.

Version 2.8.6.1-signed 52.8 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 29.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.24

✔ Added "start time position" support for YT videos.

✔ Support for "attribution_link"-tagged YT video links.

Version 2.8.5.1-signed 52.7 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 26.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.24

✔ Added support for video links pointing to their embed version.

✔ HTML5 and HD playback is now supported for DailyMotion videos.

✔ The clicked video link will now get focus when the player is closed. This should fix a issue where in certain circumstances mouse scrolling stopped working...

Version 2.8.4.1-signed 52.6 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 24.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.20

✔ Added support for TED, Vine, and eBaumsWorld videos.

Version 2.8.3.1-signed 51.9 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 24.*, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.20

✔ Rounded player corners added a couple of version ago has caused in-page flash players to overlap ours, which is now fixed. You can also turn them off if you want.

✔ Improved Backlight Effect (please refer to the add-on description for further details)

✔ Video-links on Twitter and FB should now work as well.

✔ Working over secure websites is now turned off by default.

Version 2.7.1-signed 15.0 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 22.0, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.20

✔ Added new options to define either the absolute player size (ie, 720x360) or scale proportion.

✔ Added button on the top-right corner to minimize the player.

Version 2.6.1.1-signed 14.1 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 22.0, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.20

✔ Added support for Vimeo's Channels and Groups.

Version 2.6.1-signed 14.1 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 22.0, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.20

✔ Added support for Break, CollegeHumor, DotSub, FunnyOrDie, IGN, LiveLeak, MetaCafe, Vevo, and MySpace videos.

Version 2.5.1-signed 13.8 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 21.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Fixed Annotations switch.

✔ Added option to use HD playback, which is turned off by default.

✔ Added Backlight Effect, whose option is turned on by default.

Version 2.4.1.1-signed 13.4 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 21.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ The player will not be used if the CTRL Key is pressed while clicking a link.

Version 2.4.1-signed 13.6 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 21.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ The add-on was incorrectly catching links to sharing platforms and such. This has been fixed adding a couple of configurable options which controls whether nested links should be handled or otherwise under which circumstances by providing a RegExp pattern. (Thanks to Frank Dana for a quite detailed bug report)

✔ Clicking "Show the Comment" over YouTube was wrongly bringing up the player.

✔ Added option to turn off Annotations.

✔ Added option to Add Icons to links, and to stylize them (Check screenshot)

Version 2.3.4.1-signed 12.3 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 21.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Added option per request to disable the Contextual Search Feature.

Version 2.3.3.1-signed 12.3 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 19.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Small fix to improve Youtube's urls recognition in certain cases.

Version 2.3.1.1-signed 12.2 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 19.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Added y2u.be support.

Version 2.3.1-signed 12.2 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 19.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Improved YouTube Playlists handling.

✔ Added support for DailyMotion Playlist.

✔ Fixed DailyMotion's AutoPlay.

✔ Added ability to search for videos at YouTube, being the results shown as a Playlist. This works from the context-menu for the selected text.

✔ HTTPS should be now used whether it's suitable.

Version 2.1.1-signed 10.7 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 19.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.15a1

✔ Added Playlists Support.

✔ Nested links to videos - such as those from Google results - should be properly opened now as well.

Version 2.0.1-signed 10.6 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 17.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.14a1

✔ Added option to use HTML5 when available.

✔ Added support for Vimeo, DailyMotion, and Veoh... So, maybe we should change the add-on name...

✔ Added option to show videos "on site", ie while at youtube.com

Version 1.0.1-signed 9.0 KiB Works with Firefox 8.0 - 17.0a1, SeaMonkey 2.3 - 2.14a1