Reviews for Multiselect for YouTube™
Multiselect for YouTube™ by Pollux
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 1 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 3 years agoStarted using 3.0, and it's a lot less usable than the previous version. The biggest problem I have is how the extension hijacks the Home, End, and arrow keys. Whenever I make a change in a playlist, YouTube unloads everything in the list after the 100th video and I need to hold down the End key until everything returns. With the update, the extension only scrolls to the 100th video when I press End, so I have to turn the extension off, hold down End until the rest of the videos load, then turn it back on. It's also annoying if I try to use the arrow keys to scroll up or down a little and it just jumps back to the whatever video was highlighted. (EDIT: I think End still works to scroll, but it takes a moment to load and there isn't a spinning wheel to indicate anything is happening)
There's a new confirmation prompt when I try to remove several videos at once, which adds another step.
While clicking anywhere on a playlist item to select it is easier and faster than clicking a box, this disables drag and drop, which is useful when I want to move a single video into another location. It's easier to click and hold, scroll up, then release than it is to click, scroll, right click, then click move down here. Another added step.
I also miss the videos being numbered, which gave me easy reference points to find when moving through a large playlist.
The center bottom location of the toolbar blocks the bottom video, and having to click the three dots to use functions I use all the time, while three functions I rarely use are always visible. I would like all functions visible or customizable, and the bar should span to the left of the Multiselect button, blocking the search bar, which I wouldn't be using when organizing a list anyway.
I hope the next version is as helpful as previous versions.
EDIT: Lowered rating to 1 star for the immature developer response to legitimate, constructive criticism. All of these things can be fixed and more people would use this extension if they were, but if this person would rather encourage me to uninstall than make improvements, then I encourage everyone dissatisfied with these changes to look elsewhere, as this is apparently the final version.
There's a new confirmation prompt when I try to remove several videos at once, which adds another step.
While clicking anywhere on a playlist item to select it is easier and faster than clicking a box, this disables drag and drop, which is useful when I want to move a single video into another location. It's easier to click and hold, scroll up, then release than it is to click, scroll, right click, then click move down here. Another added step.
I also miss the videos being numbered, which gave me easy reference points to find when moving through a large playlist.
The center bottom location of the toolbar blocks the bottom video, and having to click the three dots to use functions I use all the time, while three functions I rarely use are always visible. I would like all functions visible or customizable, and the bar should span to the left of the Multiselect button, blocking the search bar, which I wouldn't be using when organizing a list anyway.
I hope the next version is as helpful as previous versions.
EDIT: Lowered rating to 1 star for the immature developer response to legitimate, constructive criticism. All of these things can be fixed and more people would use this extension if they were, but if this person would rather encourage me to uninstall than make improvements, then I encourage everyone dissatisfied with these changes to look elsewhere, as this is apparently the final version.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoI can only advise you to uninstall this extension, then you don't have to worry anymore.
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165 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Savannah, 7 hours agoNeeds to be updated. It hasn't been updated in nearly 2 years, and nowadays it often doesn't work.
- Rated 2 out of 5by ThatoneXman, 3 days agoIt works... most of the time. It doesn't work to select a youtube video you're actually watching actively, which I'm very disappointed at since that's what I was intending on using it the most for. Also it doesn't work on Youtube Music. Hopefully there's an alternative that does.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18568168, 6 days agoWas a good addon i used for years, until recently it doesnt work anymore
- Rated 4 out of 5by hotchoc26, 6 days agoHi it's a must have for me but recently it's stopped working on liked videos playlist?
- Rated 4 out of 5by MrPanda009, 22 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ian Roy, a month agoDon't waste your time with this add-on. While the UI and feature set is nice, it unfortunately no longer works. Have tried several times to remove tons of songs at once and they never actually registered.
- Rated 5 out of 5by LesFir, a month agoIt helps me move videos from my likes section to playlists, which lets me free up the 5k limit. June 2026, it isn't selecting liked videos, I'm waiting for a fix
- Rated 5 out of 5by VoidInVoid, a month agoThe plugin's good. I'm just leaving a review to mention that the plugin no longer is able to select videos in other users' playlists when on the playlist page itself. It works when the playlist is in the sidebar. I assume it's YT-side because I tested it in multiple browsers & profiles, and it only worked in one, where I bet this update hasn't hit. It's like the plugin can't "see" playlists that aren't your own when on the playlist page; the video counter reads 0 in the Multiselect UI.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vaans,, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FrankOnHere, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Goulart, 3 months agoIt had a few small bugs, and the interface was not the most intuitive. But it worked pretty fine to me!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19662475, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19740051, 5 months agoIt works well, but order is not respected when adding to a playlist from a file. Instead, videos are just ordered by publication date.
- Rated 5 out of 5by heero0080, 5 months agoMultiselect for YouTube allowed me to backup and copy my writing playlist to another Gmail/YouTube account. I decided to do this after YouTube, out of nowhere, deleted my account due to a political video I had saved in my political playlist during the Biden and Trump campaigns of 2024. They said I violated YouTube terms by saving a YouTuber's video in my playlist. Apparently, this is something YouTube has done for a while, as I found multiple people online with the same complaints. I was able to get my YouTube account and playlists back in a few days. But to lose a 2000-video playlist of my favorite videos really showed me the need to have multiple accounts under different Gmails.
- Rated 5 out of 5by hicalibercon, 6 months agothis implied that i could add every video in a playlist to my own playlist. it didn't lie to me. good job, unlike PocketTube
- Rated 5 out of 5by winter414, 6 months agoThis extension still works flawlessly and fixes the playlist popup window that YouTube broke with their UI update.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15213964, 6 months agoAmazing thank you. Still works despite not being updated in over a year. Just grabbed over 200 videos from my watch later list and added them to a new playlist in one go.
- Rated 5 out of 5by liq7, 7 months agoAmazing add-on, automatically detects how many videos are in your playlist, can copy the entire playlist or save as a file locally, and import it onto another account instantly. Thanks so much saved me tons of time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sea Eagle, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17162296, 7 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16081590, 8 months agoUnfortunately, dont' work on yotube history menu. Is there a way I can return back to the previous version. if Maybe it would work again.
And it is no longer possible to cut away from a playlist; I can only copy