YouTube Popout Player icon

YouTube Popout Player

by Ryan Thaut

v5.2.2 Updated Nov 10, 2025 199KiB
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70K
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★ 3.51
140 reviews
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Description

Overview This extension provides a simple way to open any YouTube video (including videos embedded in other sites/pages) in a "popout" window which you can freely position and resize. Usage When viewing any YouTube video, whether directly YouTube, or embedded on any other website, you can either: - Right-click on the video and click the "Popout Player" option (at the bottom of the menu that is displayed) - Click the popout player icon (a square with a smaller square coming out of the top right corner), which can be found in the lower right corner of the video (by the settings and fullscreen icons) - Use the keyboard shortcuts (default CTRL + Up Arrow ) - Right-click on any link/thumbnail to a YouTube video or playlist, and use the "Open Video in Popout Player" or "Open Playlist in Popout Player" menu options. This works on any website as long as the link goes to YouTube.
YouTube Popout Player screenshot 1

Reviews (43 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-21
DN

trash. it just opens a mini tab and doesnt stay above other tabs

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-08
Lance Barker Jr

Needs an update for the new Youtube UI since it's now giving errors and not playing videos

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-06
Jas Jackson

doesn't work, shows error message for every video

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-30
Bailey Baggins

Bummed this doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm running into an error code 15 which other reviewers seem to be getting as well.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-20
Jordan O'Donnell-Beckett

No longer works since round about the start of October, which is very sad because I liked this one because it wasn't just a Picture-in-Picture, I could actually still do things like change the playback and such. Hopefully it gets fixed soon.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Fadi Abu zant

Dose not shown in new youtube design.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-14
Soumen Samanta

not working. Showing video not available

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-17
Ataur Rahaman

practically useless. Since u enabled popup to do something that covers the entire screen and u need a video to watch while doing it, but this app needs focus at all times, so basically the popup goes behind if you do other things that covers the entire screen, making the pop up useless. i can simply make a new window and open youtube in it, it will do the same trick. Pretty stupid extension to have honestly.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Alex Maul

what's the reason for this extension when you can't have it always on top... also there is no setting to make it on top... thanks for nothing

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-25
Ruzik Iforgor

Opens up a new window

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-30
SHIVCENZO GAMER

Not good , it open new browser window , its look old like window 7

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-16
Ali Kazi

It simply opens the video in a new full screen window and it doesn't even maintain the play position. This is not a real picture in picture experience.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-30
Dulguun Gonchigsumlaa

not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-18
ルシアン

Useless, it doesn't stay pinned to the top...

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-16
Jānis Ķengurs

I used it some time before, it this it was picture in picture, now its popup and not in picture but in background when i change tabs.

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-01
Ivantha Uthpala

not working

★☆☆☆☆2023-07-31
John Fizzelo

Not a popout player. Just launches a new window that only contains the player. Cannot overlay windows. You can only place it next to other Windows just like before.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-31
Yassin (EDX PV165 Yassin Hisham)

Literally useless, it dosen't stay on top outside chrome. Don't download it just a waste of time.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-24
James McGowan

There is no always on top option. Literally useless.

★☆☆☆☆2022-07-12
Harshal Phadtare

why did they build if it get in background after shifting another tab useless

★☆☆☆☆2022-03-08
Krullest

Usually pop outs are so you can browse other stuff or game whiles watching a video, but the video doesn't stay on top of the screen. In other words this extension doesn't do what its meant to do. However thanks to one of the reviews i found there's a solution to this without the need of these badly executed extensions. Right clicking twice on the video you're watching, and click "picture in picture" to have to stay on top of your screen no matter what. Hope this helps.

★☆☆☆☆2021-09-27
Tuck Vison

Doesn't have always on top

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-21
Jaakko Aaltonen

Your site says that only if the video is blocked from embedding by the creator you would get the not available-error. Any video on watch later doesn't work, even if the video would otherwise work just fine. This is like 99% of how I use youtube, add videos to my watch later and then watch them from there, so this extension is useles.

★☆☆☆☆2021-08-20
Gage Arrenegado

Doesn't work tells me to watch the video on youtube

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-27
R

Just a normal window, NOT ON TOP!! There is a reason they don't have screenshots.

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-22
Elijah L

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-04-15
Marcel Barlik

This extension only opens the video in a new window. I was looking more for something as great as the inbuilt opera window popout for any sort of video player (not only youtube - worked for pretty much any player like twitch, mixer, youtube...). The window that the extensions opens, still has borders which is quite anoying and bulky as it takes up precious space. Additionally, when shift click and dragging to resize, the video doesn't keep it's parameters and therefore creates black bars either on top & bottom or the sides. There is no buttons overlay, as of for e.g. close popout and open original video and continue playing sort of button like in the opera popout. I was also quite unsatisfied as it is not always on top, and there is no easy way to toggle this. 1/5 for me as it's quite useless.

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-08
Gerhard Kutz

App does not work. The Ctrl Up arrow shortcut only pops up the extension settings. There is no pop out feature at ALL> Piece of garbage app

★☆☆☆☆2018-07-09
generic

DOESN"T WORK AT ALL.

★☆☆☆☆2018-06-01
Greg Toomey

No always on top

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-16
sZia

SO BAD!

★★☆☆☆2025-06-28
C

it does technically work but its kind of useless as you cant actually resize it so it just covers most of your screen anyway

★★☆☆☆2024-07-09
Marcus Williams

for some reason this was activating youtube's anti adblocker system. might just be me. also, you can right click a video twice and use a built in 'picture in picture' system that actually stays pinned to the top

★★☆☆☆2023-11-27
SaienS

The idea is good, IF the video is only open by this extension, not double. Search the whole setting, no found set for that.

★★☆☆☆2020-12-29
FNAF PIZZA FAN

It work's just not in a good way Im trying to do a tutorial and when I click the application the popout goes behind it

★★☆☆☆2020-03-30
T.E. Valentine

It works, the video pops out into its own window, but if it can't stay on top what exactly is it any use for?

★★★☆☆2024-10-21
a p

the whole point of a pop out is for it to stay on top of other programs. this doesnt.

★★★☆☆2023-11-01
Ådne Carlsen

Does what it ways, but it lacks the option to make the pop-out window stay on top of other windows, which I presume is the reason most people would use this extension...

★★★☆☆2021-09-25
Oscar

Could you please add the possibility to stay on top of all windows? It now kind of destroys the experience.

★★★☆☆2021-08-02
Puteri Zahra

It does what it says, beautifully. But it should always be on the top of others, we need it to be pop-out its because we want to browsing other site/page while watching the video.

★★★☆☆2021-02-12
Chris B

Works. But any time you close ANY Chrome tab, the pop out player closes as well.

★★★☆☆2020-09-02
node9

It's an okay extension. It would be better if the window would stay on top. If you wanna use this ext. you can use an application like TurboTop to keep the window on top. Something I did notice while using that is neat is the fact the ext. remembers the size and location of the window after going into fullscreen mode.

★★★☆☆2018-07-26
blue

Advantage: Icon is so tidy. Disadvantage: (1) Icon is slightly bigger than the other icons that are in youtube player originally. (2) There's an address bar in the popout window which makes it bigger.

Permissions (5)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests notifications Can show desktop notifications storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 5.2.2
Updated Nov 10, 2025
Size 199KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026