"Preload Entire YouTube Videos By Disabling Dash Playback"

[Naz]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! This is awesome and have been looking for something like. Stupid broken youtube, used to drive me crazy, not anymore (hopefully).

[Mitrailleuse]

i installed it and restarted the browser and i cant see the gear icon he is talking about (chrome)

edit:never mind

[mrthuvi]

I use an addon called: Magic Actions for YouTube

It has many cool features as well.

[Fetzie]

There is a plugin for firefox that means you don't need greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-center/

[Dave :)]

There is a plugin for firefox that means you don't need greasemonkey: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-center/

Oh yeah it doesn't work with the most recent version of FF or something; if you have the most recent version you need to download Greasemonkey, otherwise just download that add on ^.

[Fetzie]

Oh yeah it doesn't work with the most recent version of FF or something; if you have the most recent version you need to download Greasemonkey, otherwise just download that add on ^.

 

Works with Firefox 23.0.1, which is the current version.

[Jozi]

I'm going to try this one once I'm back home.

[kamaltmo]

This is awesome

[Jozi]

If I ever wanted to watch any youtube video at 720p or higher I had to download videos to my computer cause my internet is not fast enough with that 10sec prebuffer... And this add on seems to be working now so YaaaaY!

[Anult]

You have no idea how much I hated Youtube's video buffering.

 

Thank you for this.

[pcexplosion]

is it ok is if it says you didn't download from the chrome webstore?

[Gunzkewl]

http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034?utm_campaign=socialflow_lifehacker_facebook&utm_source=lifehacker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

 

 

 

 

Yay!

 

EDIT:

Just an FYI for people having troubles installing YouTube Center, this is what I did. On the GitHub link under the Chrome and Opera section, I downloaded the Mirror and manually added it to Chrome in settings->extensions (drag and drop). I tried some other ways before this, and this is the way that worked for me.

 

Just wanted to say thanks. Also YouTube Center has the old layout for My Subscriptions, that's awesome

[bcredeur97]

This is the best piece of software ive found in a while! thanks for sharing it!

[heineygoat]

Is it possible to switch back to the normal subscriptions view? I really don't like this:

[iruixos]

Is it possible to switch back to the normal subscriptions view? I really don't like this:

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In settings under General, uncheck Grid Subscriptions

 

Be sure to save your settings under General > Import/Export > Save

[heineygoat]

In settings under General, uncheck Grid Subscriptions

 

Be sure to save your settings under General > Import/Export > Save

Wow thanks!

[Maskot]

COMCAST WASN'T THROTTLING, IT WAS JUST YOUTUBE BEING A BUTTMUNCH!

[iruixos]

Wow thanks!

 

Np

 

COMCAST WASN'T THROTTLING, IT WAS JUST YOUTUBE BEING A BUTTMUNCH!

 

Huzzah!

[kuddlesworth9419]

Could someone help me? It won't let me add this as a browser extension in Chrome.

You need to go to the Chrome Store and download "Tampermonkey" and then you can install the Script from the website. From there you will need to clock on the new Extension of Tampermonkey to go to Dashboard and then you will see YouTube Center in the Dashboard. You will need to enable it by clicking on the Disabled icon before the name. When you click it it will go from Disabled to Enabled. Go to YouTube and it should come up with a popup within the YouTube website so it doesn't matter if you have popup blocker on of off.

[Skyhawk Delta]

I tried this in Firefox 23.0.1 and it worked without installing GreaseMonkey.  This may be the single greatest browser extension ever.

[iAsuno]

this actually made yt to load faster for me. i am able to play 1080p on a 2mbit connection. with occasional buffering.

[Benbass]

It's preloading the whole video but I cannot skip anywhere like Slick said, it's reloading the video when I do that. I'm on Chrome.

[Simmytu]

This is awesome, finally I can customize YouTube to my needs :-D 

Thanks for this article! 

[iAsuno]

It's preloading the whole video but I cannot skip anywhere like Slick said, it's reloading the video when I do that. I'm on Chrome.

did that part even load yet?

[colonel_mortis]

The extension is amazing! I have only had a couple of issues with it: Even when SPF is disabled (SPF is the one that reduces the stuff it has to load each time by not making it reload some stuff), it still does it, meaning that the "More from my subscriptions" feature that I use all the time is less functional. It is also slightly dodgey in that it overlays anything you want on thumbnails over the videos in that list as well, which get in the way. I have solved this by writing a really small bit of code to add into it, and if anybody would like it, just ask.