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YouTube Shorts: Audio track navigation, Enable Seeking, Caption toggle, Restart short, Play Short as Video. Fix YT Shorts brings essential media controls, seamless keyboard shortcuts, and customizable playback features to YouTube Shorts — turning a restricted mobile-first viewer into a rich desktop experience. Whether you want to jump back a few seconds to rewatch a moment, switch languages effortlessly without touching the mouse, toggle subtitles, restart a clip, or open any Short as a regular YouTube video, Fix YT Shorts does it all natively and smoothly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 1. Audio Track Navigator (Keyboard Controlled) • Press 'A' to open the audio track selection menu. • Navigate through available languages using the Up / Down arrow keys (↑ / ↓) and press Enter to select, or press number keys (1, 2, 3...) to choose a track directly. • Or simply press 'A' again to instantly cycle to the next language. • Playback Protection: Using arrow keys inside menus is isolated so your video will never accidentally skip to the next Short! ⏩ 2. Shorts Seeker with Customizable Duration • Use Left and Right Arrow keys (← →) to seek forward or backward. • Fully customizable: Open the extension popup to set your preferred seek duration using an interactive slider or quick-select chips (2s, 5s, 10s, 15s). • Elegant on-screen seek badges stay perfectly clamped inside the video player. 🔄 3. Shorts to Video Converter • Convert any Short to regular YouTube video player format with one click using the on-screen "Convert" button. • Or use the convenient keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F (Cmd+Shift+F on Mac). • Gives you access to standard YouTube playback speed, progress scrubbers, comments, and theater mode. 💬 4. Instant Caption Toggle & Selector • Press 'C' to toggle or navigate captions. • Seamlessly choose from available subtitle languages using your keyboard without interrupting the clip. ⏮️ 5. Restart from Beginning • Press '0' to restart the active Short from the start (0:00), just like in regular YouTube videos. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ COMPLETE SHORTCUT CHEAT SHEET ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • A : Open audio track menu / cycle audio tracks • C : Toggle / cycle captions & subtitles • 0 : Restart Short from beginning (0:00) • ← / → : Seek backward / forward by your configured duration • Ctrl+Shift+F : Convert Short to regular YouTube video • ↑ / ↓ : Navigate options when Audio or Caption menu is open • Enter / Space : Select focused menu option • 1 – 9 : Directly pick track / caption by index • Escape : Close menu ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY & LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 100% Private: No personal data collection, tracking, or external analytics. • Clean & Native: Matches YouTube's official design system, colors, and typography with zero layout shifts. • Works smoothly in Dark Mode and Light Mode. • Zero bloat: Self-contained, ultra-lightweight, and lightning fast. Created with ❤️ by Pramod Beema Open source on GitHub: https://github.com/pramodbeema/fixytshorts