Video Quality Settings for YouTube™ (HD/4K)

Watch YouTube™ in your preferred video quality, such as 720p, 1080p, 1440p and 2160p.

As of May 2026, Video Quality Settings for YouTube™ (HD/4K) has 10,000 users and a 3.87/5 rating from 52 reviews in the Productivity category.

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Version
3.0.0
Manifest V3

History

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Tracking since Apr 25, 2026.

10.1K10.0K9.9KApr 25, 2026May 21, 2026
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Permissions & access

Permissions
storagewebNavigationscripting
Host access
*://*.youtube.com/*, *://www.youtube-nocookie.com/*

Screenshots

Video Quality Settings for YouTube™ (HD/4K) screenshot 1

About

Video Quality Settings for YouTube™ is a browser extension that sets the preferred quality of YouTube™ videos, and remembers your video quality settings between sessions. Limiting the video frame rate to 30 FPS is also supported.

The continued development of Video Quality Settings for YouTube™ is made possible thanks to the support of awesome backers. If you'd like to join them, please check out https://armin.dev/go/patreon

The video quality is set to 1080p by default when the extension is installed, and the option can be updated from the player settings on YouTube™, or from the extension's options. Reload already opened videos for changes to take effect.

The developer does not collect any personal data from this extension, visit the extension's privacy policy for more information.

The extension is also available for Edge and Firefox: https://github.com/dessant/youtube-video-quality#readme

Reviews are not monitored for bug reports, please use GitHub for issues and feature requests.

https://github.com/dessant/youtube-video-quality

YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

Technical

Version
3.0.0
Manifest
V3
Size
286KiB
Min Chrome
123.0
Languages
1
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
uffe0be7d28562c67a7ecc39c743b6e71
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Aug 22, 2018
Last Updated (Store)
Feb 21, 2025
Last Scraped
May 21, 2026
Website
armin.dev

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