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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173 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rob, 11 days agoMulti select does a great job on choosing selecting only the latest uploads in other playlists and adding it to my own playlist I use it every day Used it for a year on firefox After some firefox updates ago June/Aug 2026 it doesn't seem to work on firefox anymore for a while it did turning the addon of and on again but from a later firefox update it seems dead But opera is still fine with this addon and works good so i will keep opera always on that softw version just for this addon Sept 2026. (In Opera, go to the Chrome Web Store) edit : 22 Sept 2026 : it also works again in firefox today
- Rated 2 out of 5by Orchid, 14 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 睦月, 22 days ago他ユーザーのプレイリストを開いた際、動画が認識されず「0/0」と表示され、複数選択ができない場合があります。
ページを再読み込みしたり、別タブで直接プレイリストを開いたり、プレイリストを最後まで読み込ませても改善しませんでした。
自分のプレイリストでは正常に動作しているため、YouTube側の仕様変更などが原因かもしれません。
とても便利な拡張機能なので、可能でしたら今後のアップデートで他ユーザーのプレイリストにも対応していただけると嬉しいです。 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19496233, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Nyla Smokeyface, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jonathan, 2 months agoWould be rated at 5 stars if it still worked as intended. Nowadays most of its features no longer work seeing how the extension hasn't been updated since 2024.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Savannah, 3 months 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 months 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, 3 months agoWas a good addon i used for years, until recently it doesnt work anymore
- Rated 4 out of 5by hotchoc26, 3 months agoHi it's a must have for me but recently it's stopped working on liked videos playlist?
- Rated 4 out of 5by MrPanda009, 3 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ian Roy, 4 months 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, 4 months 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, 4 months 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,, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FrankOnHere, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Goulart, 6 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, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19740051, 8 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, 8 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.