All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
5.2.2 - 2025-11-09
- Fix "This video is unavailable" (Error Code: 15)
5.2.1 - 2025-10-25
- Fix "Video player configuration error" (Error 153)
5.2.0 - 2025-10-23
- Fix controls not rendering in new YouTube UI
- Fix "This video is unavailable" (Error code: 15)
- Fix options panel width and horizontal scrolling issues
5.1.2 - 2025-04-05
- Added new option to control whether the popout player resumes the video from the current timestamp when opening (re #431)
- Fix popout player not resuming the video from current timestamp (when enabled) (fixes #431)
5.1.1 - 2025-03-29
- Fix "Open Video in Popout Player" context menu incorrectly attempting to open as a playlist when used on links/videos containing both a video and a list/playlist (re #417)
5.1.0 - 2025-02-23
- Added support for Video On Demand (VOD) URLs (re #295)
- Migrate to Manifest v3
- Updated to Material UI v5 (and React 18)
5.0.0 - 2024-10-15
- Migrate to Manifest v3
- Updated to Material UI v5 (and React 18)
4.4.1 - 2023-06-21
- Fix "Automatically Open on Video Pages" functionality in Chromium browsers
- Only request optional
cookiespermission in Firefox (for multi-account containers support) - Remove default keyboard shortcuts for the following commands in Chromium browsers
- "Open popout player and close the current window/tab"
- "Open popout player without closing the current window/tab"
4.4.0 - 2023-06-19
- Added functionality for rotating videos in the Popout Player
4.3.0 - 2022-05-28
- Added support for YouTube shorts (closes #387)
4.2.0 - 2022-28-04
- Added new option to re-use any existing popout player window(s)/tab(s) instead of always opening a new one (closes #379)
- Added new option to automatically open the popout player when navigating to any video page (re #367)
4.1.0 - 2021-24-09
- Add new option and corresponding logic to maximize the Popout Player window (closes #354)
- Ensure the
Refererheader is set for Chrome 72+ (closes #356) - Add workaround for opening the Watch Later playlist in the Popout Player (closes #359)
- Improve appearance of multi-account container hyperlink (in Advanced Options on Firefox)
4.0.0 - 2021-08-02
- Added ability to customize the position of the popout player window (closes #344)
- Added functionality to remember the popout player window size and position (closes #285)
- Added ability to open the popout player in a background window/tab
- Added context menus for opening the popout player to all YouTube video and playlist links (closes #286)
- Added support for multi-account containers (Firefox only) (closes #104)
- Added separate hotkeys for opening the popout player with and without closing the original window/tab (closes #343)
- Added ability to use the "youtube-nocookie.com" domain for the popout player
- Works in Microsoft Edge (the newer chromium-based versions)
- Technical: Updated from legacy AngularJS to React for Options page (closes #348)
3.1.1 - 2020-03-06
- Fixed the context menu when right-clicking on YouTube videos
3.1.0 - 2019-02-20
- Tabbed Layout for Options Page (closes #58)
- Auto Save Options (closes #54)
- Request
tabsPermission Only When Needed (closes #55)
3.0.3 - 2019-02-12
- Info Table Bug When Using Percentage for Custom Dimensions (fixes #52)
- Chrome: Custom Dimensions Error Messages Missing Numbers (fixes #57)
3.0.2 - 2019-02-07
- Firefox 65+: Update Keyboard Shortcut No Longer Works (fixes #45)
- Update Keyboard Shortcut Modal is Cut Off (v3.0) (fixes #43)
3.0.0 - 2019-02-04
- Open in New Tab (Instead of New Window) (closes #20)
- Configurable Window/Player Size (closes #21)
- Open Popout Player via Hotkey (closes #22)
- Hide Address/URL Bar (closes #23)
- Insert Custom Text into Window Title (closes #24)
- Hide Popout Controls on Popout Player (closes #25)
- Close Original Browser Tab When Opening Popout Player (closes #26)
- Loop Videos (closes #30)
- Autoplay Videos (closes #31)
- Hide All Video Player Controls (closes #32)
- Resize/Update Popout Player Button Icon (closes #33)
- Version 3.0: Documentation (closes #27)
- Version 3.0: Promo Images (closes #37)
2.1.3 - 2018-03-17
- Fixed missing icons for Web Extension
- This re-enables the extension to be installed from the Chrome store
- Fixed the file name and URLs for the userscript
2.1.2 - 2017-10-27
- Fixed playlist detection logic to support more playlist ID formats
- Updated logo to match new YouTube branding
- New zh_CN translation (thanks @yfdyh000)
- Now supports the youtube-nocookie.com domain
2.1.0 - 2017-09-05
When watching a playlist on YouTube, you can now open the entire playlist in the popout player. This allows you to manually move forward and backward between videos, as well as auto-advancing to the next video when the current video finishes.
The extension/add-on now supports translations. Currently the only translation offered is English, but additional translations can be added and implemented following the standard localization process for web extensions.
2.0.0 - 2017-07-06
YouTube Popout Player is now a proper browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome!
A new icon has been added to the lower right corner to allow opening the current video in a popout player. This should work for all YouTube videos, both directly on youtube.com and embedded in other web pages.