Neue — redesign for YouTube

Redesign YouTube layout and grid: 1–12 videos per row, hide Shorts, popup player with chat, picture in picture, fullscreen comments

Neue is a Chrome extension that redesigns the YouTube layout and grid and fixes its animations. Set 1 to 12 videos per row on the YouTube home page instead of huge thumbnails, hide Shorts, watch videos in a pop-up player with recommendations, live chat and picture in picture, keep a stream's live chat over the video in fullscreen, get comments in fullscreen instead of the recommendations grid, take screenshots of a video. Every feature can be adjusted or turned off in Chrome's side panel. VIDEOS PER ROW AND SHORTS • Huge thumbnails and only 3 videos per row? Show 1 to 12 videos per row on the YouTube home page (fewer in a narrow window), with no gaps in the grid • Hide Shorts and choose where: home page and subscriptions, search, recommendations, channel pages • Hide Playables: shelves and cards with games • Hide news shelves such as "Breaking news"; when shown, they have as many cards as a row • Hide the topic chips bar (All, Music, Gaming…) or keep it • Set the margins from the screen edge (24 to 240 px) on every page FIXED YOUTUBE ANIMATIONS YouTube shows you a page being built: grey placeholders, then text, then pictures and icons one by one, while the player starts in the wrong place and jumps. Neue fixes that: • No grey placeholders: the home page and the video page appear whole at once instead of assembling before your eyes, and so do the other pages • The player no longer jumps: it has the video's shape and place from the first frame, in theater mode too • Comments are already there when you scroll to them, not an empty screen and then a batch • Comment replies no longer open with a spinner and a page jump: a new animation written from scratch replaces YouTube's, the replies open whole with their thread line and fold back the same way • Comments don't lag: measured on a long list, threads open at 47–90 frames per second instead of 10 • Pictures, icons and verified badges are in place at once, not loading in one by one • No more spinner under empty places while the feed loads more: a small Neue logo in the middle of the coming batch, gone as the videos appear • A video opened from the feed comes in one go: its details and recommendations together, not in steps • Changing a topic chip shows no grey cards: the last feed stays until the new one is ready • What you see comes first: the first screen doesn't wait for what is below it • From the pop-up player to the video page in one move: the video goes on from the same frame, with no repeated sound • Leaving fullscreen no longer hangs the tab; the Share dialog and the ⋮ and ☰ menus appear whole • A new loading line at the top never stalls and ends just as the page shows; a thin scrollbar never shifts the page sideways, and a double click on its thumb goes back to the top POP-UP PLAYER • Click a video on the home page or a channel page and it opens right over the page: your feed stays where it was, with no leaving and coming back • Recommendations beside the video, in a column level with it, on streams too (R key). In fullscreen it stays hidden until you call it • A stream's live chat beside the video (C key), and over it in fullscreen: a see-through window you can drag anywhere, with adjustable background, width and height • Comments over the video: mouse wheel down or V • Picture in picture: the video goes on in a small window over other tabs and programs (P key; the YouTube tab stays open) • A screenshot button in the player saves the frame as a PNG and copies it, on the video page too • Subscribe, like, share and save right under the video • The video's views and date under its title over the player • The player takes the video's own shape: 16:9, 21:9 and wider, 4:3, square or vertical • Open the full video page from the current second; what you watch is saved to your YouTube history • Chapters on the timeline and a list of chapters to jump to or share COMMENTS IN FULLSCREEN INSTEAD OF RECOMMENDATIONS • Scrolling down in fullscreen no longer brings up the recommendations grid: it raises the comments over the video • Read, write and like comments without leaving fullscreen; clicks don't pause the video • Mouse wheel down, the V key or the arrow button; the card's width and height are adjustable GLASS HEADER • Shorts, Subscriptions and You buttons right in the header, plus My channel and Studio; each one can be turned off • Search bar width from 320 to 1400 px; the menu opens as a floating card • The account menu no longer jumps aside after opening: it stays under its button, in the same glass, with all its sub-menus • Search and icons float on glass; the feed slides under them CHANNEL PAGES • The channel trailer no longer plays by itself in the middle of the page: it sits behind a "Welcome" button • Full-width channel pages with the same margins as the home page • Avatar, name and description on the banner LIGHT AND DARK THEME • Follows YouTube's theme; glass opacity and blur are adjustable • A splash screen while the home page loads; it can be turned off SETTINGS AND LANGUAGES Settings live in Chrome's side panel, apply instantly in every YouTube tab and sync with your Chrome profile. Export, import, reset. The interface follows YouTube's language (17 languages). HOTKEYS V — comments. R — recommendations. C — a stream's chat. P — picture in picture. E — save to a playlist. F — pop-up player in full screen. Esc — close the player. FAQ Is Neue free? Yes. No ads, no paid features. Does it collect data? No. No servers, no analytics. Settings stay in Chrome and sync through your Google account if Chrome sync is on. Can I go back to the original YouTube? Turn any feature off in the side panel, or disable the extension. Does it work on phones? No: youtube.com in Chrome 125 or later on a computer, including one connected to a TV. Not on m.youtube.com, YouTube Music or embedded players. Neue is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.