If you visit YouTube often, you've surely found yourself in situations where, while watching a video, you automatically want to watch another without leaving the page for fear of losing search results or the service's recommendations. For those cases, you now have InstantView, an extension that lets you watch YouTube videos without changing pages.
Today we'll show you InstantView, a new extension for the Google Chrome browser that lets you watch YouTube videos without changing pages. Suppose you're watching a video on YouTube, but you want to watch another video that's in the recommendations list. The thing is you don't want to leave the current page for fear of losing search results or the recommendations the platform offers you. For those cases, one usually right-clicks the mouse and opens the video in a new tab. Now you can avoid those steps because InstantView plays the video in an overlapping position on the same page.
Features of the overlay window
You simply have to click on a video and the overlapping window will open. This new window has all the functionalities and features of the platform (such as changing the volume or quality of the video). In fact, you can configure and activate different parameters whether it's to show comments (they appear in a sidebar though they look smaller), minimize the video, or show the visualizer (only useful for music videos or other types of videos where audio is important).
Setting up InstantView
It's worth clarifying that you have to click on the thumbnail window to activate the pop-up video and be able to watch the video on the same page (if you click on the video's text link, it opens in its own page as it normally does). As usual, when downloading and installing the extension, the InstantView icon will be added to the toolbar where options are shown mainly to modify visual elements. InstantView is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that is available for free download from the official store.
InstantView
