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YouTube Fast Fullscreen Toggle

by zimbico · Accessibility
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Avoid the lag when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video - by hiding the heavy fluff while transitioning

Users
3,000
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.7 / 5
+0.06 in 30 days
Ratings
85
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#16K
#14K among extensions
Version
2.10.0
updated 19 Apr 2024

Users

monthly, 3 years
6001,8003,000Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 3,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
205285Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 85 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About YouTube Fast Fullscreen Toggle

There's an annoying lag period when entering/exiting fullscreen on a YouTube video. On my machine, it's normally ~2 seconds; but with a large playlist expanded, it gets up to ~3 seconds. This extension reduces the transition time to almost nothing. Supported fullscreen transitions: - Clicking the fullscreen button - Pressing the F key - Double-clicking the video Unsupported fullscreen transitions (still slow): - Escape - F11 Note that Firefox doesn't seem to have the same issue as Chrome; so in Firefox the improvement is barely noticeable. In Vivaldi, there is unfortunately an intermediate step in the fullscreen transition, which I can't seem to do anything to avoid. It appears to be due to the toolbars being hidden/shown at a different moment to when the browser actually enters/leaves fullscreen. Technical detail: This bug's been present for years now, and I got so sick of it that I spent one night experimenting to find a way to avoid it - and I found one! The extra HTML content on the page (playlist, recommendations, comments, description, likes, etc.) is pretty heavy, and when you toggle fullscreen, YouTube moves it around in the DOM, which ends up incuring a fair bit of processing. I've worked out that it's significantly faster to hide that extra content before transitioning, then display it again afterwards once it's reached its new position.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0+0.06
30 days0+0.0%0+0.06
6 months0+0.0%+1+0.06
1 year0+0.0%+2+0.07

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where YouTube Fast Fullscreen Toggle appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
toggle#13+1

Version history

11 versions recorded
2.10.019 Apr 2024
2.9.019 Oct 2023
2.8.016 Jan 2023
2.7.023 Sep 2021
2.6.02 Aug 2021
2.5.111 Jun 2021
2.5.022 May 2021
2.4.029 Mar 2021

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
14 Feb 2021
Size
22 KB
Languages
en-GB
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
dggbkbndbcaknaeobfieifmdcncmpaba

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 1, likelihood 0

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