The Good Old Days: Retrofy Your Browser
Entertainment
Step back into a simpler time with the 'Good Old Days' Chrome extension.
Users
414
Rating
3.2
Reviews
6
7D Growth
+28|7.25%
Stable signalUnknownMedium-risk permissions
PlayerTube
The secret ingredient for a older (and better) looking YouTube.
Users3KCurrent public install base
Rating4.6Store average score
Reviews39Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
Preview
5 assetsPlayerTube Media preview
Trend
User growth trend
Review user movement across collected snapshots.
User Growth Over Time
Rating trend
7-day rating trend
View collected rating snapshots from the latest 7-day window to assess rating stability.
7-day rating change
Start
4.56
Latest
4.56
7-day rating change
0.00
2026年7月14日2026年7月20日
Growth overview
Daily, weekly, and monthly growth
Compare 1-day, 7-day, and 30-day net growth and growth rate.
1-day growthNo data
----7-day growthFlat
00%30-day growthNo data
----Technical snapshot
Version, languages, and crawl freshness
Review publication date, version, supported languages, and crawl timestamps.
Version1.11
ManifestV3
Size1.93MiB
Languages1English
Published
Store updated
Last crawled
English
Overview
Product summary
Review the store description, core capabilities, and common use cases.
PlayerTube is a free browser extension that is used for editing and changing up the style of the current YouTube player to a more older (and better) look.
PlayerTube provides lots of features & options that can change the YouTube player's functionality and/or look, each can be enabled or disabled from it's extension menu.
Users can customize the style of their YouTube player and share it across the web for others to use with custom theming. PlayerTube provides a whole page dedicated to it's custom themes feature so users can jump right in without looking up a YouTube tutorial.
Latest update (v1.11):
* Fixed CSS relating to things that tie to fullscreen (`.ytp-big-mode` has been changed to `.ytp-fullscreen`)
* Was also stated in #73, but I had noticed it before this issue.
Reviews
Recent review snapshot
Inspect the latest comments and rating distribution.
Store average score4.6Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.5Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text34Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews39Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
Store average score: 4.6. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.
Related products
Similar and related extensions
Review related products from the Chrome Web Store detail page.
CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout
Fun
FreemiumConfidence 64
Choose your own YouTube layout, and more!
Users
30K
Rating
3.8
Reviews
325
7D Growth
0|0%
XP Newtab
Workflow & Planning
PaidConfidence 55
A new tab extension that is in the style of Windows XP.
Users
2K
Rating
4.8
Reviews
197
7D Growth
0|0%
Old Twitter Layout (2026)
Social
FreemiumConfidence 64
A new extension that returns old Twitter's look.
Users
90K
Rating
4.5
Reviews
641
7D Growth
0|0%
Youtube Red Bar
Art & Design
Change that youtube's bar to bring the full red back
Users
577
Rating
5.0
Reviews
10
7D Growth
+31|5.68%
Classic Web Search for Google
Tools
Automatically redirects your Google searches to the classic web-only results view.
Users
491
Rating
3.0
Reviews
8
7D Growth
+26|5.59%
really good, the ui could be a bit bigger or maybe an option to toggle that (maybe I missed it) I'm used to the 2024 one now, would be great if that could be added somehow
pls make the player 2024
I downloaded this in hopes of removing the pain the new YouTube player brings me. In general, I'd say this is a fine replacement for the modern look. However, I have some gripes. Note, I am using Opera GX as opposed to Chrome, so some issues noted might not apply between browsers. For one, I am using the 2013 scrubber, and its center dot isn't exactly lined up with the bar itself, being a little pushed back. Additionally, the bar itself ends a little left/earlier than where the page actually ends. If an ad plays before a video, then the bar is fixed, but if you change viewing modes (moving from normal to theater mode, for example), then the bar's length is reduced once more. I do not know why this is the case, but it causes me to subconsciously want ads to appear. Finally, during ads, the bar's gray circle still appears on the yellow progress bar even though, from my memory, that was not the case (please disregard this point if my memory is incorrect). Still, this extension is an amazing must-download, it just needs some small refinements to be perfect in my OCD brain.
Looks like it was fixed, but the 2015 one is not displaying.
Update plsss
Fantastic. One star off because I was combining this with Youtube Redux, but the UI was cropped.
This is great but I found the 2006 player glitches with the progress bar. Sometimes, especially when I go fullscreen, it will stretch to the full extent and obscure the other controls rather than keep in its box. If you could look into this, I would be most grateful. Thank you in advance.
its beautiful c:
great job, but please be aware that youtube has now pushed a new player UI to the test. Even though your layout switcher does good at swapping the gradient bars, it does not reinstate the old button layout devoid of big opaque bubbles.
Aside from the progress bar not being filled all the way and sometimes disappearing (this does not affect the fake bar option by the way), this is a really good extension, one worthy of being used alongside Youtube Redux. Edit: The progress bar disappearing has been mostly resolved (doesn't happen often), but the small piece of space at the end of the progress bar is still there. I'm wondering why it is, if the creator knows about it, and if it is possible to fix.