github NicholasBly/youtube-webos 0.6.9

latest releases: 0.7.3, 0.7.2, 0.7.1...
one month ago

Fixes

Force Max Quality

Implemented black screen/infinite loading mitigation for webOS 25 TVs only
On webOS 25 TVs, the first video loaded while using Force Max Quality usually gets stuck on a black buffering loading screen

  • Fix: Detect webOS 25 TV -> force video to play
  • When it starts to play successfully, the player UI (controls) will be hidden and appear to load like a normal video
  • Subsequent videos for the remainder of the session are unaffected and will load normally

Additional improvements to redundant quality checks and race conditions

Show Time in UI

  • Fix clock not appearing properly during video playback
  • Fix clock not appearing at all on webOS 3 - 5 (css style issue)
  • Hide clock when description panel is open on video
  • Code redundancy fixes + general optimizations

Thumbnail Quality

  • Complete rewrite fixing memory leaks, performance issues, and race conditions - #36
  • webOS 3 legacy code fallback added for full functionality
  • Thumbnail Quality now stops upgrading thumbnails when the setting is disabled

Shortcuts

  • Added 400ms cooldown on shortcuts to prevent accidental duplicate key presses / key spam

Return Dislike

  • Fix race condition causing console log spam / multiple injection attempts when opening description panel

Updates

AdBlock

  • Filter sponsored videos/ads from Shorts

Force Max Quality

  • When quality is upgraded, a notification will appear showing the updated quality
  • Optimized Lookups: Replaced array checks with a static Set (TARGET_QUALITIES) for O(1) quality level validation
  • Storage Caching: Implemented in-memory caching (cachedQualitySettings) for localStorage to reduce read/write frequency and overhead
  • Smart Quality Check: Added logic to skip processing if isQualityAlreadyMax() returns true

Shortcuts

Play / Pause shortcut no longer shows YouTube player UI

  • When running shortcut in fullscreen, the player UI (controls) and clock UI (if enabled) is hidden temporarily and dismissed automatically
  • When running shortcut with player UI visible, the player UI will not be affected
  • Perfect functionality after pause -> controls and clock will be visible as normal

OLED-care mode

  • "Up next" screen now has a black background
  • Black background re-applied to the video selector underneath videos at 100% opacity by default
    • 4th page added called "UI Tweaks" to allow you to adjust the opacity to your liking
  • Black background on text removed

Changes

  • Moved multi-line video title fix to 4th page "UI Tweaks" section as a toggleable option

Optimizations

AdBlock

  • Reduced code complexity and improved code reuse

SponsorBlock

  • Cache legacy webOS version check
  • General optimizations and improvements

Show Time in UI

  • Code redundancy fixes

ui.js

Performance: Replaced expensive <style> tag injections with efficient CSS class toggling for the Play/Pause shortcut
Refactor: Consolidated scattered CSS injections (Logo, Endcards, UI hacks) into a single initGlobalStyles() function

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