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Restore animated thumbnail previews - youtube.com

To restore animated thumbnail previews. Requires inline video previews to be disabled in your YouTube user settings (Go to https://www.youtube.com/account_playback and set "video previews" to disabled). Not Greasemonkey compatible. v5 Add new method for getting an_webp GIF-style thumbs when not available in YT's new homepage UI or subscription page UI.

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detfusco 18-08-2025
Last: detfusco 19-08-2025
Good I had to finally migrate from Chrome to Firefox. And while migrating my extensions I noticed restore animated thumbnail previews doesn't work on homepage. It works on subscription or history page b...
zfgfade 03-07-2025
Last: zfgfade 11-08-2025
Seems to be broken again. The home and subscriptions pages work fine, but the sidebar recommendations next to videos don't animate anymore.
dial-888 03-08-2025
Last: dial-888 05-08-2025
Good Last few days on the most videos - preview is 3 picture slideshow instead of the actual video preview :(
Jossy M 06-12-2024
Last: Jossy M 20-02-2025
As per Seekhare's post - was working fine for me until yesterday (Dec 5th) but no longer working as of today so I guess I'm one of the accounts they are trialling their changes on. Like others have...
elor1 12-02-2025
Last: seekhareAuthor 12-02-2025
Stopped working for me about a week ago. Seems to still work everywhere except the home page.
dial-888 21-01-2025
Last: Retefo Henry 21-01-2025
But today it's working again!
dial-888 20-01-2025
Seems it stop working for me too :(
seekhareAuthor 09-11-2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 10-11-2024
NOTICE: Youtube seems to be trialing an experiment on some user accounts that breaks the restoration of animated thumbnails on the homepage. I have experienced it myself and had it reported by othe...
David Bonilla Bravo 22-10-2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 02-11-2024
Good The script worked perfectly for months but since the new changes to Youtube's interface, it no longer works for me.
Australian Kangaroo Essence 06-04-2024
Good I though I messed up something with the many scripts/extension I have for YouTube, but this brought them back. Thank you!
Geets 08-02-2024
Good Thank You so much for this very much needed script. You're a life saver.
TsukiZero 30-01-2024
Good Great, because I was sick of Youtube's thumbnail shenanigans and the crappy captions slapped over the thumbnail.
Jhovannino 15-12-2023
Last: seekhareAuthor 15-12-2023
Good Can't download the script because this message: Ignoring @match pattern http*://www.youtube.com/* because: Error: @match: Invalid protocol (http*:) specified. I'm using Greasemonkey. I hope you c...
Cena Bale 15-12-2023
Good Thank you so much

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