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YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

Posted April 13, 2015 at 5:13pm by iClarified
Google is testing a new experimental desktop player for YouTube. The HTML5 player features a transparent control bar that hides when you're not using it.

YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

Here's how you can try it out yourself.


● While using Chrome, click here to open YouTube to a video. Don't forget to subscribe to iClarified's channel while you're there :)
YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

● Right-Click or Control-Click on the webpage and choose Inspect Element from the popup.
YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

● Choose Console from the inspector window that appears.
YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

● Enter the following command into the console document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=Q06SngRDTGA";
YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out


YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

● Refresh the page
YouTube is Testing an Experimental New Video Player for Desktops, Here's How to Try It Out

Let us know what you think of the new design in the comments! Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for more news, videos, and tutorials!

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gamerscul9870
gamerscul9870 - April 13, 2015 at 8:22pm
What they need to do is fix the playback. Since yesterday, I didn't receive a bad update but after being on the latest version for a while, I try to make video play but is stuck buffering, yes I got good wifi signal and quality support, but wtf is happening?
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ayoman
ayoman - April 13, 2015 at 5:37pm
My YouTube Player changed to that automatically on safari about 9 days ago. Was I just lucky to get it early or has it happened to others as well?
philipefth
philipefth - April 15, 2015 at 8:21pm
While browing in a private window, I got the new transparent player in Safari, however when I was watching the same video on the normal window i got the old player and I can't understand why..
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