1.1.2

Patch release refining the action toolbar over YouTube's inline video preview.

Change

• On a warm re-hover — where YouTube fires its inline preview near-instantly — the thumbnail's toolbar could flash in just before the preview's own toolbar, reading as the toolbar appearing twice. The thumbnail toolbar now has a short hover-intent delay: if the preview takes over within it, the toolbar is canceled before it ever shows, so only the preview's toolbar appears. The preview's toolbar keeps a zero delay, so the hand-off stays seamless.

The extension is 1.1.2; the native helper is unchanged (1.1.0).

Install (unpacked): download yoink-1.1.2.zip, unzip, then Load unpacked the yoink/ folder from chrome://extensions. Optional video downloads: cd yoink/native-host && ./install.sh (needs yt-dlp + ffmpeg).

Yoink 1.1.1

Patch release focused on how the action toolbar renders over YouTube's inline video preview.

Changes

• The toolbar now reveals instantly, matching YouTube's own hover controls, instead of an animated fade — so it no longer double-fades when the inline preview starts playing.
• One toolbar per thumbnail. On a cached re-hover YouTube mounts its inline player inside the grid thumbnail, which previously picked up its own second toolbar; that duplicate is now suppressed.
• README: the reveal is described accurately (instant, not a fade).

The extension is 1.1.1; the native helper is unchanged (1.1.0).

Install (unpacked): download yoink-1.1.1.zip, unzip, then Load unpacked the yoink/ folder from chrome://extensions. Optional video downloads: cd yoink/native-host && ./install.sh (needs yt-dlp + ffmpeg).

Yoink 1.1.0

YouTube Thumbnail Saver is now Yoink — the same subtle, YouTube-native toolbar on every thumbnail, plus a new one-click video downloader.

New — Download video (yt-dlp)

An optional fifth toolbar button hands the video to a locally installed yt-dlp and downloads it at the quality you choose (up to 4K, or audio-only), best video + audio merged to mp4.

• Live progress toast — title · percent · size · speed · ETA — with a cancel button and Show in folder on completion.
• Ask where to save opens a native folder chooser (kdialog / zenity / Finder / Explorer); otherwise it saves to your Downloads folder.
• Hardened against the browser-environment ffmpeg crash that silently capped downloads at 360p (strips leaked LD_LIBRARY_PATH / PYTHONPATH, pins --ffmpeg-location).
• Video quality selector in the popup (1080p by default).
• A built-in setup page with live helper status and steps that adapt to what you already have installed.

The four core actions — save image, copy image, copy image link, open full size — are unchanged and need nothing extra.

Install (unpacked)

1. Download yoink-1.1.0.zip below and unzip it.
2. Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the yoink/ folder.
3. (Optional — for video downloads) install yt-dlp + ffmpeg, then run cd yoink/native-host && ./install.sh and fully restart your browser. The extension walks you through it.

1.0.0

A subtle, YouTube-native toolbar appears on every thumbnail. Each action has hover feedback and a green ✓ / red ✗ result flash.

Toolbar actions

• Save image… — native Save As dialog (toggle off in the popup for silent save to Downloads / YouTube Thumbnails)
• Copy image — copies the actual bitmap to the clipboard, ready to paste
• Copy image link — copies the direct highest-res i.ytimg.com URL
• Open full size — opens the full-resolution image in a new tab

Settings popup: enable/disable, hover vs. always-visible, resolution (highest available or fixed), and ask-where-to-save.

Always picks the best available thumbnail (maxres → sd → hq). Works across home, search, subscriptions, channel, watch-page sidebar, and Shorts.

Install

Download youtube-thumbnail-saver-1.0.0.zip, unzip, then load the folder via chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked.