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FYTE /Fast YouTube Embedded/ Player

Hugely improves load speed of pages with lots of embedded Youtube videos by instantly showing clickable and immediately accessible placeholders, then the thumbnails are loaded in background. Optionally a fast simple HTML5 direct playback (720p max) can be selected if available for the video.

These are versions of this script where the code was updated. Show all versions.

  • v2.8.5 2017-06-07 clarify video quality option via tooltip
  • v2.8.4 2017-06-06 Add default video quality option
  • v2.8.3 2017-05-27 prevent double activation of iframe player
  • v2.8.2 2017-05-23
  • v2.8.1 2017-05-22
  • v2.8.0 2017-04-08 fix https://greasyfork.org/en/forum/discussion/21433/
  • v2.7.9 2017-01-31 Fix occasional double-fetching of storyboard thumbnails
  • v2.7.8 2017-01-31 Handle CSS columns to calc the dimensions
  • v2.7.7 2016-12-07 Expand the parent-eating rule to check paddingTop on the parent element itself like https://jakearchibald.com/2016/fun-hacks-faster-content/
  • v2.7.6 2016-10-24 fix theverge videos
  • v2.7.5 2016-10-17 Skip playlist embeds
  • v2.7.4 2016-10-03 exclude some google+ iframes used in youtube's notifications
  • v2.7.3 2016-09-07 Don't try to process non-youtube videos, don't get unneeded info for autoplayed videos
  • v2.7.1 2016-08-12 Fix the first click-to-pin in iframe mode
  • v2.7.0 2016-08-08 edit description
  • v2.6.9 2016-08-07 Don't start dragndrop off the control bar
  • v2.6.8 2016-08-07 Chrome hack to restore autofullscreened iframes
  • v2.6.7 2016-08-07 Delayed cover image display for autoplayed videos
  • v2.6.6 2016-08-07 Keep centering when sizemode=original
  • v2.6.5 2016-08-07 typo
  • v2.6.4 2016-08-07 Cache titles and other info
  • v2.6.3 2016-08-07 Middle-click starts fullscreen playback
  • v2.6.2 2016-08-06 Don't animate background when autoplaying
  • v2.6.1 2016-08-04 Process more OBJECT embeds
  • v2.6.0 2016-08-04 Fix: clicking the title should open a youtube page
  • v2.5.9 2016-08-03 Fix stacking on the bottom, don't stack on self.
  • v2.5.8 2016-08-03 Drag'n'drop zone may be the original placeholder. Add 9gag.
  • v2.5.7 2016-08-02 Add drag'n'drop pinning, make 'pinnable' On, Hide, Off. Show shadow under corner-pinned videos.
  • v2.5.6 2016-08-01 Add transparent corner pins option. TL nanodedup
  • v2.5.5 2016-07-31 Corner pins fade-in/out on hover. Inject styles only if processed videos are present.
  • v2.5.4 2016-07-31 Actually use the 'pinnable' option
  • v2.5.3 2016-07-31 Move pinned directly played videos on top
  • v2.5.2 2016-07-31 Improve the description
  • v2.5.1 2016-07-31 Corner pinning. Fixup: properly cleanup adopted CSS in FF.
  • v2.5.0 2016-07-31 Correctly set title link width. Fix on-resize timer, speedup the adjustment. Parse video size more reliably. Add storyboard element only when data is obtained. Display storyboard thumb to the left of mouse cursor
  • v2.4.9 2016-07-30 Keep display:inline as display:inline-block. Reuse image preloader. Storyboard fixup when part index = 0
  • v2.4.8 2016-07-30 Storyboard click jumps to corresponding time. Spinner fixups. Correctly override existing url params.
  • v2.4.7 2016-07-29 Fix storyboard preview. Show spinner while loading storyboard pic under cursor.
  • v2.4.6 2016-07-29 Show full length storyboard (seekbar preview)
  • v2.4.5 2016-07-28 Compatibility with pre-47 Firefox
  • v2.4.4 2016-07-28 Don't intercept Youtube Link Title
  • v2.4.3 2016-07-27 Fix youtu.be links, add reddit videos. Don't adopt original margin. FF rounding bug fix. Constrain min-width and min-height. Fix embedly's youtube.com%2Fembed.
  • v2.4.2 2016-07-26 Prioritize per-site rules. Work around FF's buggy getElementsByTagName, getComputedStyle. Move our rules to the end of HEAD to increase CSS specificity
  • v2.4.1 2016-07-26 fixup for 'prevent parent clipping'
  • v2.4.0 2016-07-25 Per-site rules (pikabu.ru added). Embed the icon as data url. Code cosmetics.
  • v2.3.9 2016-07-25 Consume parents of retardedly positioned videos. Fade-in black background color from transparent.
  • v2.3.8 2016-07-25 fixup: check googvid.length
  • v2.3.7 2016-07-25 Speedup page loading: reduce time spent in MutationObserver 5x times
  • v2.3.5 2016-07-24 Process autoplay=1 videos
  • v2.3.4 2016-07-24 Add translations: Russian

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