Hide YouTube™ video controls

Get the add-on from:

• Mozilla add-on page
• Chrome web store
• GitHub Release Page

Does YouTube™ leave the video controls visible for longer than you like? Do you want to have a hotkey that toggles the controls? This add-on gives you the tools to change that.

You can:

• Hide the video controls when you move the cursor to any border
• Toggle the controls when you press the configurable hotkey

In the add-on settings you can configure the individual sides as well as the hotkey.

If you experience any issues, please let me know here.

Known issues

The add-on currently does not work with embedded YouTube™ players.

Building the add-on

A build pipeline using Gulp is set up to create artifacts that are then able to be installed and published.

First install the build dependencies.

npm install

Than you can build both Firefox and Google Chrome artifacts. The result can be found in the build directory.

npm run build

Alternatively you can just build one browser.

npm run build:firefox
npm run build:chrome

The build output for Firefox and Chrome can be found in the build directory. To debug the add-on see the respective documentation for Google Chrome and Firefox.

Legal Note

YouTube™ is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.