It's great fun to browse among YouTube videos, but it's not so fun once you've fallen into YouTube Abyss. That's the zone where nearly all of the 'related' videos are pointless, despite incredibly high view-counts. If only you could see the like/dislike bar before clicking on the thumbnail.
Now you can, with Janus. Janus is a Firefox extension designed to implement a like/dislike bar under YouTube video thumbnails. Now you can skip the junk, and get back to enjoying your video browsing!
Janus also has an option to hide the thumbnail altogether for really poorly rated videos. You choose the percentage of dislikes that qualifies as "really poor". This frees up screen real estate for the remaining thumbnails, making it even easier to find the good ones.
The main focus is on the 'related' videos that show up in a vertical list next to the video you are watching, but Janus does its thing on the main page and search pages, too. Janus also keeps track of ratings info it fetches, so that it doesn't need to re-fetch the same info, which allows Janus to display that ratings info immediately.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· fetching stats behaves a bit more like the background process that it is
· clarified the threshold labels are percentages by adding "%"
· expanded compatibility to include FF v10
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