YouTube Googler

By MooGoo Last update Oct 8, 2008 — Installed 26,682 times.
Make YouTube more like Google Video

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Makes YouTube videos look more like Google Videos. Basically, it puts the comments in a new tab on the side bar, and expands the video frame to take up as much space as possible, just like Google Video.

This is a total rewrite of the old version, and in fact much simpler. So it is not as slick as it used to be. There is no inline search, or popup stats box, all useful YouTube content is now shoved into the right sidebar. It's a little ugly, but it works! The new code should be more resilient to minor changes on YouTube that plagued the old version.

Updates! 10-08-2008

  • Brought back the YouTube header tab bar and search box, it managed to escape, but I captured it again.
  • Can now resize the side bar on the right. Hover your mouse over the border between the video and the sidebar, it should change to a resize cursor. Drag left-right to change the size of the sidebar, drag up-down to change the size of the video. These sizes are remembered and will remain for all videos until changed. (Tip! Hold SHIFT while dragging to only resize the video, or CTRL to only resize the side bar)
  • If you hover your mouse over the border between the video and the sidebar, and simply click, the sidebar will collapse to a thin grey bar on the right, giving a kinda fullscreen effect, click the thin grey bar to restore the sidebar.
  • Fixed some styles to make things look better
  • Script might work with Opera...