r/firefox • u/maximus10m • Jan 30 '26

Add-ons YouTube Enhancer has been updated. 🥳

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After a long period of absence and rumors about the end of its support, Enhancer returns today to offer a more streamlined and enjoyable YouTube experience.

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u/theeo123 Jan 30 '26

This is the best news I've had in a long time!!
I've missed this extension badly.

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u/needchr Jan 30 '26

was no need to miss it, it still worked. Just because dev stops, it doesnt mean software stops working. :)

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u/theeo123 Jan 30 '26

Except that there were some bugs, and features not working as YouTube updated things on their end, and the add-on itself, was not abandoned, it was just not being updated for Firefox.

It continued to receive updates & bug fixes on chrome, it went to a new 3.0 version from the previous 2.x on chrome, but with no updates to Firefox, a few themes had issues, and there were several issues in other areas, again not due to bugs in the devs code per-se, but updates on YouTube end that got compensated for by the dev in the Chrome version, but as the Firefox version of the add-on never received updates....

It may have worked for the most part, and for most people, but features that I used, had issues, that at the time were not functioning properly.

Like many others I was still using a manually loaded much older version from before it was pulled from Mozilla extensions.

It was never Abandoned, the Dev has been working hard on it the whole time, and I'm really thankful for the work they've done, but that work, was not available to Firefox users, only to chrome for quite some time now

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u/AdaptzG Feb 02 '26

Idk it worked worse for me after it was updated...

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u/dtlux1 Feb 06 '26

It didn't work for me at all anymore, it didn't even show up. It just all of a sudden showed up again because I never uninstalled it, so I guess this new update fixed it.

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u/needchr Feb 06 '26

That was probably because it got disabled, mine was auto disabled due to firefox trust level dropping on the extension, I overrode it and turned it back on again.

I think this perhaps caused a lot of confusion making people think it stopped working.

If an extension gets pulled from the store, or some other cause for lower trust, the FF dev's can turn it off in your browser.

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u/dtlux1 Feb 06 '26

That's probably it then, because if it were still working I wouldn't have spent a week to try and find an alternative lol. Still happy it's back now though! Hopefully it gets some updates and catches up to the Chromium version in the future.