Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen

Name: Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Author: srnyx

Open YouTube videos in fullscreen in it's own window (windowed fullscreen)

As of June 2026, Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen has 4,000 users and a 4.00/5 rating from 8 reviews in the Productivity category.

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Chrome Web Store ↗.crx

Users+534.9%

4.0K

4,000

Rating−7.6%

4.00

8 reviews

Reviews+33.3%

Version

1.3.0

Manifest V3

90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension gained 3.4K users.

History

14 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 1, 2026	630	4.33	6	1.2.0
Apr 21, 2026	635	4.33	6	1.2.0
Apr 26, 2026	563	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 1, 2026	527	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 6, 2026	516	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 10, 2026	500	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 14, 2026	523	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 18, 2026	528	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 22, 2026	513	3.86	7	1.3.0
May 27, 2026	518	3.86	7	1.3.0
Jun 1, 2026	537	3.86	7	1.3.0
Jun 5, 2026	523	4.00	8	1.3.0
Jun 9, 2026	549	4.00	8	1.3.0
Jun 18, 2026	553	4.00	8	1.3.0
Now	4.0K	4.00	8	1.3.0

Changelog

Apr 21, 2026

description

Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is an extremely simple extension (only 14 lines of code) that allows you to open YouTube videos in their own pop-up windows.

This is great if you're watching a long video or movie and want to multi-task. Or, you just like being able to see your taskbar and to easily manage the YouTube video's display.

Activated either by clicking on the extension's icon in the toolbar or by using a customizable keyboard shortcut (default is Ctrl+Shift+W).

Please report any bugs or suggest new ideas through the GitHub page below!
GitHub (source code): https://github.com/srnyx/simple-youtube-windowed-fullscreen


LEGAL DISCLAIMER
YouTube and all associated YouTube images are copyright of Google, LLC. Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is not affiliated with YouTube or Google, LLC.

⚠️ ALERT: The extension MAY no longer work as well as it used to due to recent YouTube changes. 😢 I have no idea if/how I can resolve the issue on my end. If you have ANY idea, please open an Issue/Pull Request in the GitHub! ⚠️

It will ATTEMPT to use the original system, but if that fails, it will fallback to just a regular YouTube URL/video in the specialized window (but it should remove all distractions using custom CSS, just won't be as nice as the original/embedded method).


Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is an extremely simple extension (only 14 lines of code) that allows you to open YouTube videos in their own pop-up windows.

This is great if you're watching a long video or movie and want to multi-task. Or, you just like being able to see your taskbar and to easily manage the YouTube video's display.

Activated either by clicking on the extension's icon in the toolbar or by using a customizable keyboard shortcut (default is Ctrl+Shift+W).

Please report any bugs or suggest new ideas through the GitHub page below!
GitHub (source code): https://github.com/srnyx/simple-youtube-windowed-fullscreen


LEGAL DISCLAIMER
YouTube and all associated YouTube images are copyright of Google, LLC. Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is not affiliated with YouTube or Google, LLC.

Permissions & access

Permissions: tabs
Host access: None declared

Screenshots

Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen screenshot 1

About

⚠️ ALERT: The extension MAY no longer work as well as it used to due to recent YouTube changes. 😢 I have no idea if/how I can resolve the issue on my end. If you have ANY idea, please open an Issue/Pull Request in the GitHub! ⚠️

It will ATTEMPT to use the original system, but if that fails, it will fallback to just a regular YouTube URL/video in the specialized window (but it should remove all distractions using custom CSS, just won't be as nice as the original/embedded method).


Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is an extremely simple extension (only 14 lines of code) that allows you to open YouTube videos in their own pop-up windows.

This is great if you're watching a long video or movie and want to multi-task. Or, you just like being able to see your taskbar and to easily manage the YouTube video's display.

Activated either by clicking on the extension's icon in the toolbar or by using a customizable keyboard shortcut (default is Ctrl+Shift+W).

Please report any bugs or suggest new ideas through the GitHub page below!
GitHub (source code): https://github.com/srnyx/simple-youtube-windowed-fullscreen


LEGAL DISCLAIMER
YouTube and all associated YouTube images are copyright of Google, LLC. Simple YouTube Windowed Fullscreen is not affiliated with YouTube or Google, LLC.