youtube-mobile-experience.md

Design your own YouTube app with Firefox and extensions!

Install Firefox and Extensions

1. Install Firefox, Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly for Android.
   • The goal is to install a separate version which you do not use for general browsing, but it is up to you which edition to choose.
2. Go to ⋮ → Settings → About Firefox (Beta/Nightly)
3. Tap 3 times on the logo
4. Go back → Custom Add-on collection
5. Enter 3124145 and youtube accordingly.
6. Go to ⋮ → Add-ons → Add-ons Manager
7. Install all or specific extensions from the list by clicking ➕
8. Optionally, customize browser and extension settings in general to suite your experience better. You're done!

Notes

• This collection is targeted for mobile use, even though the extensions could work on desktop as well.
• In the future, this collection will be usable without the aforementioned steps.
• Alternative interfaces like Piped and Invidious are not the goal, because the benefit of this process is having a full experience with a Google account, including likes, comments, playlists and more. If you don't need those things, you're better off with NewPipe anyway.

Set YouTube as the default search engine

Warning: while useful, this will hide the URL in search results.

1. Go to ⋮ → Settings → Search → Default search engine
2. Tap ➕ Add search engine
3. Enter accordingly:
   • YouTube
   • https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s
   • https://suggestqueries-clients6.youtube.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=%s
4. Select YouTube
5. Go back → Manage search shortcuts → unselect all except the last "YouTube"