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Restore animated thumbnail previews - youtube.com

To restore animated thumbnail previews. Requires inline video previews to be disabled in your YouTube user settings (Go to https://www.youtube.com/account_playback and set "video previews" to disabled). Not Greasemonkey compatible. v4 Add new carousel fallback for Youtube's new homepage UI.

As of 2025-08-02. See the latest version.

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Jojo Stardust 2025-09-18
Last: seekhareAuthor 2025-09-18
Good Works fine but the interval won't stop due to clearTimeout instead of clearInterval
ebyam 2025-09-14
Last: ebyam 2025-09-14
Good The script no longer works sadly :/
dial-888 2025-09-13
Last: dial-888 2025-09-14
It's stop working for me on the main page in v.5.7 :( I'm using Chrome 140.0.7339.128 and Tampermonkey. Works only in the right side column on the video page and in the history.
dial-888 2025-01-21
Last: dial-888 2025-09-13
But today it's working again!
detfusco 2025-08-18
Last: detfusco 2025-08-19
Good I had to finally migrate from Chrome to Firefox. And while migrating my extensions I noticed restore animated thumbnail previews doesn't work on homepage. It works on subscription or history page b...
zfgfade 2025-07-03
Last: zfgfade 2025-08-11
Seems to be broken again. The home and subscriptions pages work fine, but the sidebar recommendations next to videos don't animate anymore.
dial-888 2025-08-03
Last: dial-888 2025-08-05
Good Last few days on the most videos - preview is 3 picture slideshow instead of the actual video preview :(
Jossy M 2024-12-06
Last: Jossy M 2025-02-20
As per Seekhare's post - was working fine for me until yesterday (Dec 5th) but no longer working as of today so I guess I'm one of the accounts they are trialling their changes on. Like others have...
elor1 2025-02-12
Last: seekhareAuthor 2025-02-12
Stopped working for me about a week ago. Seems to still work everywhere except the home page.
dial-888 2025-01-20
Seems it stop working for me too :(
seekhareAuthor 2024-11-09
Last: seekhareAuthor 2024-11-10
NOTICE: Youtube seems to be trialing an experiment on some user accounts that breaks the restoration of animated thumbnails on the homepage. I have experienced it myself and had it reported by othe...
David Bonilla Bravo 2024-10-22
Last: seekhareAuthor 2024-11-02
Good The script worked perfectly for months but since the new changes to Youtube's interface, it no longer works for me.
Australian Kangaroo Essence 2024-04-06
Good I though I messed up something with the many scripts/extension I have for YouTube, but this brought them back. Thank you!
Geets 2024-02-08
Good Thank You so much for this very much needed script. You're a life saver.
TsukiZero 2024-01-30
Good Great, because I was sick of Youtube's thumbnail shenanigans and the crappy captions slapped over the thumbnail.
Jhovannino 2023-12-15
Last: seekhareAuthor 2023-12-15
Good Can't download the script because this message: Ignoring @match pattern http*://www.youtube.com/* because: Error: @match: Invalid protocol (http*:) specified. I'm using Greasemonkey. I hope you c...
Cena Bale 2023-12-15
Good Thank you so much

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