Version 4.0.1 [June 22nd, 2025]

• Icon changes

Version 4.0 [June 21st, 2025]

Implemented advanced settings and hotkey customization

This major update introduces a new advanced settings page and provides full customization for keyboard shortcuts, alongside significant UI enhancements and bug fixes.

New Features:
- Adds a new "Advanced Settings" view accessible from the main popup.
- Implements an experimental "Action Delay" setting to control player responsiveness and prevent buffering issues.
- Allows users to rebind the forward and backward keyboard hotkeys. Input is validated to prevent assigning the same key to both actions.
- Introduces a "Reset to Default" button for hotkeys.

UI/UX Enhancements:
- Adds custom spinner controls to all number inputs for easier value adjustment.
- Refactors preset and hotkey settings into collapsible editor panels to create a cleaner UI.
- Updates the "Action Delay" tooltip icon to an alert symbol, left-aligns the text for readability, and repositions it to prevent overflow and cursor obstruction.

Bug Fixes:
- State Management: Fixes a critical bug where disabling a settings card (e.g., "Keyboard Shortcuts") would not collapse its open editor panel. The UI state is now correctly reset on disable.

Version 4.0 [June 21st, 2025]

This is a major release focused on giving you more control over your viewing experience, redesigning the UI for clarity, and improving overall performance.



New Features & Major Enhancements

• Fully Customizable Hotkeys
  • Take complete control of your keyboard. You can now assign custom keys for skipping forward and backward (e.g., J and L).
  • The UI prevents you from using the same key for both actions.
  • A new reset button lets you restore the default hotkeys (← and →) instantly.
• New Advanced Settings Page
  • A dedicated section for power users has been added.
  • Action Delay Control: Fine-tune player responsiveness with a new experimental setting to add a small delay (in ms) after a skip command. Perfect for preventing buffering on some systems.

UI & UX Improvements

• Collapsible Setting Panels
  • Preset and hotkey editors are now neatly tucked away in collapsible panels. Click the edit icon to expand and customize, keeping the interface clean and focused.
• Clear Visual States
  • Disabled sections are now grayed out and their editors are automatically collapsed, providing a clear visual cue for which settings are active.
• Improved Number Inputs
  • All number fields have been upgraded to custom spinner controls with up and down buttons for quick and easy value adjustments.
• Enhanced User Guidance
  • New tooltips have been added to explain advanced features like Action Delay, ensuring you know exactly what each setting does.

Under-the-Hood Fixes & Improvements

• Robust Settings Migration
  • Your settings are now automatically and safely preserved across future extension updates. No more resets.
• Smoother Button Animations
  • The on-screen forward and rewind buttons now appear with a much smoother, flicker-free animation.

[v3.7.5 May 31st, 2025]

Enhanced Ad Experience: Your custom fast-forward/rewind buttons and keyboard shortcuts will now remain active and functional even when YouTube advertisements are playing.

Smart Ad Skipping: The fast-forward button and the right-arrow keyboard shortcut will now attempt to skip ads. This works by: Trying to click YouTube's native "Skip Ad" button if available. If no skip button is found, attempting to fast-forward the ad to its end.

Enhanced YouTube Navigation Stability: Resolved a bug where the extension's buttons and keyboard shortcuts could become unresponsive after navigating to a new video from a channel page or other internal YouTube links (improving behavior with YouTube's dynamic page loading).

[v3.7.3 May 14th, 2025]

Smoother Buttons: I've improved how the fast-forward and rewind buttons load on YouTube. They should now appear more smoothly when you start a video or click to a new one, with less of an abrupt "pop-in." This makes them feel more integrated with the player.

Code Organization: I've reorganized some of the extension's code "under the hood." I moved the styling rules for the popup settings window out of the popup.html file and into the main style.css file. This doesn't change how the popup looks to you, but it makes the code neater and easier for me to manage for future updates.


If anything is broken, please issue a bug report on my GitHub!
https://github.com/Laskco/YouTube-Fast-Forward-and-Rewind/issues

[v3.7.2 May 13th, 2025]

• Fixed Keyboard Skipping: Squashed a bug where setting your keyboard arrow keys to skip 5 seconds (or other amounts) might have only skipped 1 second. Your custom skip times should now work correctly every time!
• Smaller Extension Size: Removed some old, unused image files to make the extension a little lighter.

[v3.7.1 May 2nd, 2025]
YouTube has been changing a lot of the core functionality of their website which has been breaking my extension. So if the extension breaks please leave a comment on my GitHub.

• Fixed YouTube hijacking the keyboard shortcuts.

[v3.7 May 1st, 2025]
- Added tooltips instead of (Customizable Presets).
- Fixed the YouTube player from disappearing when hovering over the customizable buttons.

[v3.5] - April 17, 2025

New Features:

Light & Dark Theme Support: You can now switch between a new Light Theme and the original Dark Theme using the Sun/Moon toggle button in the header! Your preference is automatically saved.

Reset Button Keeps Your Theme: Clicking "Reset to Default" now only resets the skip time settings and toggles, leaving your chosen Light or Dark theme preference untouched.


UI Fixes & Polish:

Smoother Toggle Buttons: Fixed visual pixelation around the edges of toggle switches for a cleaner look.

Header Layout: Adjusted spacing between the icons in the header for a more polished appearance.


[v3.4] - April 12th, 2025

Popup UI fixes/adjustments


[v3.3] - April 11th, 2025

UI Redesign: Revamped the entire popup interface for a cleaner look and better user experience.
New Toggles: Added convenient switches in the popup to toggle button and keyboard controls on/off.
New Presets: Implemented customizable skip time presets for one-click application of your preferred settings.
Performance: Enhanced overall extension speed and efficiency.
QOL: Made various small improvements to streamline usage.
Feedback: Please report issues and requests on GitHub
License: Added a custom license file to the extension. Please review the included license file for terms of use.


[v3.3] - April 11th, 2025

• UI Redesign: Revamped the entire popup interface for a cleaner look and better user experience.
• New Toggles: Added convenient switches in the popup to toggle button and keyboard controls on/off.
• New Presets: Implemented customizable skip time presets for one-click application of your preferred settings.
• Performance: Enhanced overall extension speed and efficiency.
• QOL: Made various small improvements to streamline usage.
• Feedback: Please report issues and requests on GitHub
• License: Added a custom license file to the extension. Please review the included license file for terms of use.

Release Notes - April 02, 2025

New Features

• Added Skippable Timestamps: Users can now set specific times to skip using the arrow keys on the keyboard..

Improvements

• Revamped Popup UI: The popup user interface has been completely redesigned for a fresher look and improved usability.

Bug Fixes

• Squashed Some Bugs: Addressed various minor issues to enhance overall stability and performance.

Enjoy the update!

#Fixed unused permissions

- Updated the Popup UI to be a little more unique.
- When Enabled and Disabling the extension it will now clearly state "Extension Enabled" or "Extension Disabled" for the text.

New Features:

- Redesigned fast forward and rewind buttons
- Added customizable skip times with an updating button to show selected duration
- Improved overall functionality

Bug Fixes:

- Resolved issues with YouTube Free Movies
- Squashed various bugs
- Enhanced reliability and performance

#Adjusted the button position slightly in 2.1

#Fixed Initial Load of the Extension on YouTube

#Changed the pop-out to be in dark mode
#When enabling and disabling the extension the text will change to Enable Extension and Disable Extension

Release Notes

Fixed:
#The extension now activates properly when you turn it on or off.
#More performance fixes.

New:
#The popout window looks cleaner and is easier to use.

# What's New
- Buttons now appear more reliably and at the right time
- Better handling when you go full screen
- Works with more types of YouTube videos

# Performance Updates
- Made the extension faster and lighter
- Smoother response to your actions
- Cleaner operation when moving between videos

# Known Issue
There's a small quirk with YouTube's free movies: you'll need to enter and exit full screen mode once to get the buttons working properly. This doesn't affect paid movies. I'm still investigating the cause - if you have any insights, please share them on our GitHub page!