code-charity / code-charity/youtube
🐞Save video to playlist
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- JavaScript
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Description
Concise Description
since youtube has messed with the UI, i can no longer add videos to playlists, the button has disappeared
Browser/s
Firefox
Other Browser:
No response
'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?
watch any video and the button to add to playlist has disappeared
Since when?
22nd april 2025
Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?
Yes
..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)
No response
Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)
No response
Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):
Yes
Expected preferred behavior:
No response
ImprovedTube Version
No response
Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)
Your YouTube-Document
No response
OS / Device:
windows 11
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Reproduce the missing playlist button in Firefox while logged out, then inspect the extension's video-page playlist control and relevant browser-console output. Done means the add-to-playlist button is available again without affecting the reported YouTube setup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100