Open Short

About

Open YouTube Shorts in the regular watch player without any extra
clicks, no copy/paste, no new tabs.

Open Short adds a small button to the action rail on every
YouTube Shorts page (above the Like button). Click it and
the same video opens in YouTube's standard watch player in
the same tab, with all the normal playback controls:
seekable timeline, playback speed, theatre mode,
mini-player, captions, and quality settings.

Features
• One-click switch from Shorts to the regular player.
• Same tab, no new windows or pop-ups.
• Works automatically on every short you visit.
• Tiny footprint: no settings, no popup, no background
  tab activity beyond a single install ping.
• Privacy-friendly: the extension only runs on
  youtube.com/shorts/* URLs and asks for no other
  permissions.

Why?
Shorts is great for discovery but the player strips out
the timeline, speed control, and quality settings you get
on a regular watch page. Open Short bridges the two: keep
scrolling Shorts, and when you find something you actually
want to watch properly, switch to the full player in one
click.

How it works
The button appears at the top of the right-side action rail
(above the Like, Dislike, Comment, Share, and Remix
buttons). Clicking it rewrites the page URL from
`youtube.com/shorts/{id}` to `youtube.com/watch?v={id}` and
reloads in the same tab.

What we don't do
• No tracking of what you watch.
• No analytics on your browsing.
• No reading or modifying any page other than YouTube
  Shorts.
• No account, no login, no sign-up.