Instant Video Gallery

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This extension detects videos on the current page and creates a gallery overlay for quick viewingThis extension was called "Quick Show Videos" but has now changed to "Instant Video Gallery" to make it more obvious as to what the extension is for.

This extension comes from an idea I had where I will often follow a link because it promised me a video but upon hitting a webpage the video is not immediately visible. That's annoying. So I decided to write an extension for Chrome that gets the videos on the page and can then display a gallery style overview of just the videos. The added benefit is that if there are links to videos too, it will display them in the gallery so you don't have to leave the page you're on to watch reference videos!

We currently support YouTube, Vimeo and inline videos (added via the HTML5 video tag) but will be updating regularly to add other videos to the gallery.

There's a quick command of Ctrl (Command) + Shift + V to show and hide the gallery if one or more videos is detected on the current web page.

** Please see the update page for the latest updates to this extension **

Updates - Version 1.10.5
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- Fixed errors
- Added video caching (likes may not always be up to date)
- Updated the way videos are found, which now works between different pages on YouTube

Updates - Version 1.10.4
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- Fixed YouTube videos no longer working

Updates - Version 1.10.3
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- Fixed issue with some durations not displaying properly
- Added description as a pop up. Click the button next to close.

Updates - Version 1.10.2
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- Updated YouTube API version to 3 as everything was returning "null"

Updates - Version 1.10.1
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- Fixed an API issue that was causing video information and images not to display.
- Fixed an issue with the current video highlight that was causing it to appear on more than just the selected video

Updates - Version 1.0.8
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This update see the addition of object tags (mainly for flash videos) being included in the video gallery. This is currently experimental as object tags can vary. If you have any issues please leave me some feedback.

Also, this update fixes an issue with actual videos, rather than just embedded videos. They weren't showing before but were playing in the background.

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In the latest update we have included a lot more information about the videos for YouTube and Vimeo. You can now see the number of plays, or views, the number of likes (and dislikes on YouTube videos) and the duration of all video types.