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More control over your player.

GridVids Player connects your browser to GridVids for quality choices, a cleaner video, and Picture-in-Picture.

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What it adds

Video quality in Plyr
Open the player’s settings and choose from the quality levels YouTube offers. Controls appear when the extension connects to a supported player.
A cleaner video
Hide title overlays, cards, suggestions, and the extra control layers over your video.
Picture-in-Picture
Click the extension button or press Alt+P to keep a video visible while you use another tab.
Open YouTube links in GridVids
Enable the option from the extension’s toolbar menu. It is off by default.
Global playback shortcuts
Play or pause with Ctrl+Shift+7, seek back with Ctrl+Shift+8, and seek forward with Ctrl+Shift+9, even outside the browser. Assign Play next in your browser’s extension shortcut settings.
Your YouTube progress in GridVids
Watch on YouTube and continue in GridVids. Sign in to GridVids and visit it once to connect your account. Tracking is enabled by default and can be disabled from the extension’s toolbar menu.
Add to GridVids
Use the button inside YouTube embeds on other sites, or right-click a YouTube video link, to add it to Don’t Miss. Unknown videos are queued for discovery.
Background playback
Let the extension try to start the next video while your tab is in the background. Your browser may still block autoplay.

Install in Chrome or Edge

Available as an unpacked extension for desktop browsers.

Download GridVids Player
  1. Download the ZIP and extract it into a folder you will keep.
  2. Open chrome://extensions or edge://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
  3. Choose Load unpacked and select the extracted folder containing manifest.json.
  4. Allow access to YouTube, YouTube NoCookie, and GridVids, then refresh this page. The status above will confirm the connection.

After an update, replace the files, reload the extension, and refresh your watch tabs.

Sharing playback back to YouTube still requires a real click on YouTube’s player and its signed-in cookies. The extension cannot guarantee a credited view or saved history.

Quality control uses YouTube’s internal player and may stop working if YouTube changes it. YouTube progress tracking sends watched video IDs and playback progress to your signed-in GridVids account. Disable it from the extension’s toolbar menu. It does not store credentials.