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Restore animated thumbnail previews - youtube.com

2023-12-14. To restore animated thumbnail previews, requires inline previews to be disabled in your Youtube settings. Note: not Greasemonkey compatible.

Fra 15.12.2023. Se den seneste versjonen.

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Jojo Stardust 18.09.2025
Last: seekhareAuthor 18.09.2025
Good Works fine but the interval won't stop due to clearTimeout instead of clearInterval
ebyam 14.09.2025
Last: ebyam 14.09.2025
Good The script no longer works sadly :/
dial-888 13.09.2025
Last: 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.
dial-888 21.01.2025
Last: dial-888 13.09.2025
But today it's working again!
detfusco 18.08.2025
Last: detfusco 19.08.2025
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 03.07.2025
Last: 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.
dial-888 03.08.2025
Last: dial-888 05.08.2025
Good Last few days on the most videos - preview is 3 picture slideshow instead of the actual video preview :(
Jossy M 06.12.2024
Last: 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...
elor1 12.02.2025
Last: seekhareAuthor 12.02.2025
Stopped working for me about a week ago. Seems to still work everywhere except the home page.
dial-888 20.01.2025
Seems it stop working for me too :(
seekhareAuthor 09.11.2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 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...
David Bonilla Bravo 22.10.2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 02.11.2024
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 06.04.2024
Good I though I messed up something with the many scripts/extension I have for YouTube, but this brought them back. Thank you!
Geets 08.02.2024
Good Thank You so much for this very much needed script. You're a life saver.
TsukiZero 30.01.2024
Good Great, because I was sick of Youtube's thumbnail shenanigans and the crappy captions slapped over the thumbnail.
Jhovannino 15.12.2023
Last: seekhareAuthor 15.12.2023
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 15.12.2023
Good Thank you so much

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