New Contributors:

• @Dorshir made their first contribution in #2540
• @pnvttk made their first contribution in #2551
• @jackSeigerman made their first contribution in #2586
• @IamOSource made their first contribution in #2618
• @THite06 made their first contribution in #2612

Contributor's contributions:

• Update messages.json by @Dorshir in #2540
• Fixed duplicated play all button when switch page by @pnvttk in #2551
• Fixes by @dodieboy in #2565
• Update messages.json by @decimaldreamer in #2590
• Added Full Hebrew locale support by @jackSeigerman in #2586
• Issue #2615 by @IamOSource in #2618
• Update player.css by @THite06 in #2612
• Issue #2630 by @IamOSource in #2640

My edits

Full Changelog

🎉 Greetings to @raszpl @dodieboy @PTheocharis @SabalM @4yman-0

release notes

functions.js channel not initialized on international YT by @raszpl in #2444
Eslint by @dodieboy in #2446
Update blocklist.js linter by @raszpl in #2453
background.js ContextMenu links in German when language =='default' by @raszpl in #2451
eslint.config.mjs brace-style allowSingleLine by @raszpl in #2450
Update core.js linter errors by @raszpl in #2452
fixing PiP / Auto PiP by @raszpl in #2457
Recreated pr branch #2429 by @ImprovedTube in #2461
Fixed fit to window #2518 by @SabalM
v4.1070...v4.1096

Please read the previous notes: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/releases about many extentions going extinct now! Etc.

New Contributors! : @gabrielhsdev #2336 @agrpranjal07 #2303

Thanks for keeping up the good work!

( Chrome webstore seems to understand better lately. ( Also thanks to who suggested to make youtu.be/SLfff7Kw_Xc&t=18s ))

• Update init.js ImprovedTube.livechat collapsed called too early by @raszpl in #2298
• Update player.js playerQualityWithoutFocus breaks on switching tabs by @raszpl in #2299
• Rotate shortcut updated by @agrpranjal07 in #2303
• Update styles.css Shorts Background by @raszpl in #2322
• Update bug_report.md less is more by @raszpl in #2323
• #2111 by @gabrielhsdev in #2336
• Add Jest Framework, JSLint, and Testing Workflow by @PTheocharis in #2345
• Update player.js fix channel_trailer_autoplay by @raszpl in #2349
• Update themes.js cleanup by @raszpl in #2325
• Update init.js removing only one instance playing kludge by @raszpl in #2356
• Update manifest.json unify formatting by @raszpl in #2365
• Update satus.js fix shortcut reset by @raszpl in #2355
• Update background.js dead code parse error fix, formatting by @raszpl in #2370
• Update manifest.json forgot comma by @raszpl in #2369
• Update header.css Firefox logo fix by @raszpl in #2374
• Update background.js keep focus/blur messaging to minimum by @raszpl in #2375
• Update player.js commenting out until feature is finished by @raszpl in #2377
• Update background.js fixing last patch by @raszpl in #2380
• playerControls() multiple problems by @raszpl in #2382
• Update player.js ClipboardItem (supported in the latest firefox too) by @raszpl in #2373
• Update player.js reverting #2062, fixes #1342 #1652 #1904 by @raszpl in #2389
• Update general.js disableThumbnailPlayback search page fix by @raszpl in #2383
• Captions rename for live updating, add option to force disable by @raszpl in #2385
• Update functions.js ignore video previews by @raszpl in #2384
• playlist.js undefined 'playlistData' proper fix, even safer by @raszpl in #2387
• fix playerAutopauseWhenSwitchingTabs when minimizing browser by @raszpl in #2386
• Update player.js more subtitle safety by @raszpl in #2400
• Update functions.js subtitles by button turned out dead end by @raszpl in #2402
• Update core.js blocklist: safety, properly initialize, speed by @raszpl in #2398
• Update channel.js fix channelPlayAllButton by @raszpl in #2407
• Update shortcuts.js fix shortcutToggleControls #1129 by @raszpl in #2405
• Update blocklist.js Channel button Observer by @raszpl in #2408
• Update messages.json "Toggle player controls Hiding" #1129 by @raszpl in #2409
• Update shortcuts.js handlers rewrite, multiple fixes by @raszpl in #2421
• Update appearance.js ImprovedTube.descriptionSidebar undefined by @raszpl in #2430
• Updated Safari Workflow by @dodieboy in #2433
• Update blocklist.js cover three currently known versions of HTML #2422 by @raszpl in #2428
• Update general.css HIDE BUTTONS ON THUMBNAILS also cover video-preview by @raszpl in #2432
• Add ESLint check by @dodieboy in #2438

Full Changelog: v4.938...v4.1070

• July 2024: Many extensions scheduled for extinction: let's assess what we can do

• Inspiring plans? #2251 ( crowd fixes, #1881, #1451, #1445, ... , ... )

• Thanks for the review! youtu.be/SLfff7Kw_Xc&t=18s @ChrisTitusTech (Btw it's meant to use while on YouTube to see changes. And somehow i couldn't post a comment🤣 Seems YouTube still has the bug to shadowban when editing/deleting/re-posting a comment repeatedly)

• You might notice a couple sweet new features & fixes. Fortunately so much happened, that i can't sum it up today.
  

Changelog: v4.780...v4.938
Update init.js indentation, formatting by @raszpl in #2106
themes Patch 5 by @raszpl in #2107
functions.js variable explicitly already declared in function name by @raszpl in #2108
satus.js formatting, fixing some variable declarations by @raszpl in #2122
background.js hideSubscribe only once by @raszpl in #2121
settings.js adding Disabled Language option by @raszpl in #2124
Update messages.json by @decimaldreamer in #2115
Turkish update and others messages modified by @unnamed-orbert in #2129
themes.js hopefully last time by @raszpl in #2133
themes.js never ending optimizations by @raszpl in #2134
Added an option to remove black bars in full screen mode by @bart1998 in #2141
Update styles.css --yt-searchbox-background -> --ytd-searchbox-backgr… by @raszpl in #2143
player.js formatting, eliminating global variable by @raszpl in #2140
Rename autoplay to reflect its real function by @raszpl in #2110
Update satus.css make shortcut keys readable in popup by @raszpl in #2145
Update styles.css corrected --yt-spec-text-primary-inverse by @raszpl in #2150
Update styles.css override subscribe button when not subscribed by @raszpl in #2148
satus.js redundant self variable, use native js default function para… by @raszpl in #2146
Add option to automatically disable captions in lyrics/karaoke videos #1235 by @ThomSipkens in #2147
Copied player settings from appearance/player to the player menu (Fix to Issue #2037) by @BoazStassar in #2151
Add Cinema Mode by @SanderDebets in #2149
Add new safari installing method by @dodieboy in #2158
Create build-safari-app.yml by @dodieboy in #2159
core.js changing Description mode duplicated buttons under the player by @raszpl in #2155
Fix issue 2044 by @Viktor-3 in #2161
Update player.js autoplayDisable rename by @raszpl in #2156
Update active-features.js show themes by @raszpl in #2169
Update satus.js limit writes to essential ones by @raszpl in #2167
Update themes.js normalizing, removing redundant data by @raszpl in #2170
Added Fix for buttons below the player by @ADTmux in #2176
Quick fix by @dodieboy in #2182
Fix Live Chat collapsing once storage loaded by @testunde in #2194
Updated Greek Translations by @PTheocharis in #2198
Update core.js limit localstorage writes to only essential ones by @raszpl in #2180
Update themes.js group property is only for component: 'radio' by @raszpl in #2209
Update satus.js extend .on listener to redirecting to elements like w… by @raszpl in #2210
Update search.js polish, bugs fixed, remember/restore last search query and position. by @raszpl in #2201
Update general.css stop scrollbar-color from overriding ::-webkit-scr… by @raszpl in #2214
Feature #300: Reduce quality when window loses focus (from pull request #2162) by @Alpaczyk in #2212
Update general.css selector typo by @raszpl in #2196
Update styles.css make desert theme search button icon visible by @raszpl in #2172
Update player.js fixed playerQualityWithoutFocus by @raszpl in #2218
Update player.js unmangle by @raszpl in #2221
Update themes.js 'ytd-masthead') no guaranteed to exists, fixes rando… by @raszpl in #2226
Update active-features.js search returns buttons now, skip those by @raszpl in #2231
functions.js click handler catch html5-video-container by @raszpl in #2177
Update player.js quick bodge fix for #2137 by @raszpl in #2242
Blocklist overhaul by @raszpl in #2244
Blocklist overhaul for testing by @raszpl in #2098
Update player.js slightly more readable autoplayDisable by @raszpl in #2157
Update satus.js correct Menu load timing problems #2160 by @raszpl in #2163
Update functions.js check channel page when calling blocklist(channel by @raszpl in #2246
Update themes.js no more cookie, no more [dark] dependence by @raszpl in #2174
Update themes.js ytd-masthead is handled by CSS now by @raszpl in #2247
Update skeleton.js move search: searchPosition: to search component by @raszpl in #2248
Update satus.js remember slider by @raszpl in #2249
Update satus.js missing blur listener makes empty search disappear on… by @raszpl in #2250
Update functions.js fix YT dark theme by @raszpl in #2253
unmangle/cleanup/simplifying. Ready. by @raszpl in #2256

Great fixes & enhancements thanks to @raszpl! 🎆:
#2059 #2065 #2063 #2071 #2062 ( #2073 #2072 )
#2076 ( #2075 #2096 #2084 )
#2077 ( #2091 #2097 )
pending: #2098 #2085

#2081 thanks to @PedroBT03 (Welcome!) (+pending: #2100)
#2039 thanks to @unnamed-orbert
#2034 Thanks to "echo_12"! (Japanese translation on Crowdin. Welcome!)
also welcome @Midhun134 #2024 @Amrani-Farouk-Hossam-Eddine @pojith

Please help us or other extensions migrate to manifest v3 these month.
As always, please help us find possible glitches.

Translation

• Google/spreadsheets/Multi-Translator
  • We can make a version loading all (our 400+) keys for one language at a time (import & export. Instead of all languages at once as demonstrated above. Chatgpt can help).
    • So this will be most&increasingly efficient for translators. Also: #1934. #1543
• Updated & completed Portugese translations thanks to @unnamed-orbert, who kept caring for several days!! And added all the missing/new things to our languages files and added the crowdin translator interface and added to Spanish, and so on
• Swahili (complete!) thanks to @onyangojerry
• If a translation isn't complete, we now consider all locales set in the browser in order.

New Features/Options:

• Disabling video previews (on hover) thanks to @ugackMiner53 (#1785)

• Allowing ads for small channels below 130000 subscribers or any amount thanks
  to @josephShokry - Also:

• Button to sync settings (if the browser-user is logged in elsewhere)

• Fix for our theme's color of description&links thanks to @PoorChameleon

• "Always repeat" can be enabled without showing the button

• Fix(sync) for the visual state of our two Repeat(loop)-Buttons thanks to @kjonathan024 (#1504)

• Comments in a sidebar without an extra sidebar (even on wide enough screens) thanks to @a1exanderklein (#1960)

• Improvements for permanent speed
• Tidied our UI skeleton
• ...

TYVM! @code-charity/contributors
Catching up with what's been missing for long can be more relevant, just possibly less shiny than totally new stuff.

Fixes for www.youtube.com in windows below 1024px:

• Chat, thanks to @BogdanskiJ (#1905)
• Shorts comments
• Anything else? :D

...To be a top 1000 Github repo, you'd need ~22222 stars. (We need not achieve that). Yet our Github activity doesn't match our amount of users & with a little help by 0.0x% of the users, we could develope X times faster. So i feel guilty never having tried this harder. So to start something, the extension's menu home page shows the recent ~30 Feature requests.

• (Also always wondered why the others, who are busy with YouTube's JS (few people in the world) , don't team? - #1881 )

• fixes: like/dislike shortcuts; day of the week; search bar focused on home page; blocking videos & channels by @Huhni

• @WongChoice added subtitles in screenshot name, optionally rendered in screenshots too!

• @DMCS20 updated/improved our Spanish. @Atesfahun tried to optimize / troubleshoot and @AbhinavGoel9 too.

• and people ask to be assigned to issues increasingly(!) So i regeret missing some of them for long (please feel free to assign somebody 'by default' each time that you watch an issue @code-charity/contributors (or least you can vote for the priority)

Thanks!

Thanks: @MAZ01001 stayed amazing with complete/longsighted work! - @PG-257811 @asifurrahaman754 contributed repeatedly, even when i asked😮. Most enduring contributor these month: @D-Rekk. Thanks for bug reporting too! @Eyevou @Anoaxx. New contributors: @yashi-15 @JustEmo.

• some new litte features, several bugs
• a lot of optimization. (Our status.js is only for the UI for now, circumvented loading it for the rest @raszpl)
• the Popup player is nicer now (with playlist, no title bar, ...)
• Speed-watching: music exception finally works when clicking related videos (might be unlikely to be in a hurry but click random things).
  • yet technically this was complicated: to define Music relying on the meta tags (next to the category, title, description) as YouTube seems to only include meta tags in new tab/windows.
    • Thus ImprovedTube can query a random Invidious node (/ ArchiveTeamData) now (1kb vs 800kb. Only needed for related videos But now we can add smart /data features more easily. - Ideas / wishes?)
      • And Probably we should also already work with https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js? (and help them. if Sisyphos had twins, would they team or all do the same thing alone in different countries?)
  • chromewebstore/youtube-tags also fetches the 800kb (every time?) - So we can easily make this feature most efficently now (and/or hopefully the developer has a look)

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• Pop-out Player considers & shows Playlists thanks to @MAZ01001
• Speed-watching music detection is finally mature / few enough false-positives thanks to @Eyevou finding several examples.
• a player button to toggle 100% player-height thanks to @D-Rekk
• a button to Copy transcripts (not published just yet)
• Search results lists in a new tab both thanks to @asifurrahaman754

As always, several bugs fixed, most notorious one: Playlist reverse (#1544) thanks to @chasevis

• Experimentally adding @dodieboy's lines for everyone, that prevent youtube's anti-ad-blocker alert (since october18), #1809 (comment), to figure out if how many of our multiplied uninstalls since oct18 come from confusion only
  • Misc: https://Improvedtube.com/uninstalled shows the latest issues now... (=better?)

New CSS: Related videos options: focus titles hide tabs only +hidden is no longer hiding anything else. (There's hide sidebar if you really will). Hide 'Shorts remixing this video'. Fix: blacklisted videos hardly take space. + Fixes for: Thumbnails to the right! , transcript on the left! , transcript: compact spacing, etc. + Channel default page: Any tab (about, channels, shorts, community)

+ attempted to fix ad-skipping. Needs testing - as i'm blind to most ads (unable to see even without blocking them) #1762

• & @Lauviah0622 came to care about improving ImprovedTube in all 57 language files
  And let's us remove shorts from the search results & home page

• & @Huhni fixed the "play-all"-button and blocking / blacklisting Channels, despite it was a riddle. (If we are lucky, this amount of effort & time also increases probability of repeating)

• & @KiloBravoBFE translated to Swedish
• & @mlcivilengineer fixed a bug with speed-watching vs. music & @Eyevou sounds determined to find any more
• & @TienTim uploaded to the AppStore once again. We ${\color{red}must}$ run an Apple VPS & automate the process for every extension, can't we?
• & @fharper notified today, that YouTube is experimenting with video details on the side🧐 (utilizing the right year old issue #1398 - just like he should and you should too!)

🦆 join us