Fit to window doesn't turn off correctly

[Korygauger]

Bug Report:

⚬ BUG: fit to window doesn't turn off without tab refresh
⚬ HOW: open a video turn on fit to window and then turn it off.
you will find that when you turn it off theater mode is cropped essentially cutting off the borders of the video and normal mode becomes weirdly vertical. the fit to window view looks fine though.

⚬ Screenshots:

/ ⚬ Context:
I think it just isn't updating the new size to the player and is instead putting the fit to window size video in the now smaller video box but that is just speculation on my part.
A quick fix to this would be to make fit to window become the default viewing mode cause it works normally otherwise. It does stay on though when I click a video in the recommended videos under the current video, but if I go back to my home page and select a new video from there it isn't on and becomes broken.

this is the first version of your extension I have used from you guys so I wouldn't know what update caused this.

sorry if this was already reported. I did look but I my skills may be lacking in that regard so I could have missed it.

/ ⚬ Expected /preferred behavior:
⚬ Browser: Mercury, repeatable on firefox and vivaldi
⚬ Settings: repeatable on default settings with just fit to window enabled
⚬ OS: linux mint

sorry if this wasn't very helpful this is my first bug report.

[ImprovedTube]

hi! @Korygauger, thanks! couldn't reproduce it yet

this player button is new #1798 by @D-Rekk

firefox addon store allows to test an old version of our extension with a click.

you can also try to log out, since YouTube changed a lot these days. And might give you different versions.

[D-Rekk]

I don't understand completely how that occurs. @Korygauger can you post a video replicating the issue without any other extension? Currently in Chromium this works well (at least the version I'm using 👀) by toggling both FTW and theater on and off.

[Korygauger]

Hey @D-Rekk and @ImprovedTube so I checked what you guys said other than the older version so I still have to test that but here is a video link to how recreate the bug. https://youtu.be/d-D-pNDtwtc .

[D-Rekk]

Thank you @Korygauger 🙏. Since you haven't changed any other settings, this has to be related to issue #1685, which also affects this feature. I just pushed a fix in my fork, may you verify if this problem occurs with this branch too?

[Korygauger]

@D-Rekk I tried to install your fork but I am not sure how I can. I tried downloading the .zip renaming to .xpi and installing from file but it says it is corrupted. Can you tell me how I can install it?

[D-Rekk]

@Korygauger you have to download the zip and open/extract it. That folder will appear with lots of files, just as the repository itself. Then you go into your browser settings, in Extensions Settings you import an unpacked extension (the folder just extracted).

[Korygauger]

@D-Rekk worked like a charm. whatever you did. can you let me know when your push request goes through?

[ImprovedTube]

thanks guys!!

• Added a new label "bounty" to BrainStorming: 1. 'normal' vs null ?? & 2. Active Features GUI  #1685 etc. (Wish the development can be as efficient as possible, while the project grows).
• Reports just increased noticeably (& nicely) through mentioning github issues on the uninstall page (several reports by people who just signed up on github, yet knowledgable)
  • We should get donations / funding, so that pure service (or "sisyphos-tasks" after YouTube Updates) won't depend only on great volunteers, like @D-Rekk (, which can be tough, so sometimes it feels funny, that we (the many users) are collectively begging the few contributors (developers, reporters /testers, ...)