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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. v5 Add new method for getting an_webp GIF-style thumbs when not available in YT's new homepage UI or subscription page UI.

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Respuesta de ebyam, 14/09/2025
Último comentario: ebyam, 14/09/2025
Bueno The script no longer works sadly :/
Respuesta de dial-888, 13/09/2025
Último comentario: dial-888, 14/09/2025
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.
Respuesta de dial-888, 21/01/2025
Último comentario: dial-888, 13/09/2025
But today it's working again!
Respuesta de detfusco, 18/08/2025
Último comentario: detfusco, 19/08/2025
Bueno 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...
Respuesta de zfgfade, 03/07/2025
Último comentario: zfgfade, 11/08/2025
Seems to be broken again. The home and subscriptions pages work fine, but the sidebar recommendations next to videos don't animate anymore.
Respuesta de dial-888, 03/08/2025
Último comentario: dial-888, 05/08/2025
Bueno Last few days on the most videos - preview is 3 picture slideshow instead of the actual video preview :(
Respuesta de Jossy M, 06/12/2024
Último comentario: Jossy M, 20/02/2025
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...
Respuesta de elor1, 12/02/2025
Último comentario: seekhareAutor, 12/02/2025
Stopped working for me about a week ago. Seems to still work everywhere except the home page.
Respuesta de dial-888, 20/01/2025
Seems it stop working for me too :(
Respuesta de seekhareAutor, 09/11/2024
Último comentario: seekhareAutor, 10/11/2024
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...
Respuesta de David Bonilla Bravo, 22/10/2024
Último comentario: seekhareAutor, 02/11/2024
Bueno The script worked perfectly for months but since the new changes to Youtube's interface, it no longer works for me.
Respuesta de Australian Kangaroo Essence, 06/04/2024
Bueno I though I messed up something with the many scripts/extension I have for YouTube, but this brought them back. Thank you!
Respuesta de Geets, 08/02/2024
Bueno Thank You so much for this very much needed script. You're a life saver.
Respuesta de TsukiZero, 30/01/2024
Bueno Great, because I was sick of Youtube's thumbnail shenanigans and the crappy captions slapped over the thumbnail.
Respuesta de Jhovannino, 15/12/2023
Último comentario: seekhareAutor, 15/12/2023
Bueno 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...
Respuesta de Cena Bale, 15/12/2023
Bueno Thank you so much

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