rayytor/desktop_gifs
Post GIFs in YouTube comments and replies from a desktop browser. Extension for Chrome and Firefox.
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Desktop GIFs Post GIFs in YouTube comments and replies from a desktop browser. Install · Use · Troubleshooting · Limits · How it works · Privacy YouTube's mobile app can attach a GIF to a comment; the desktop site has no button for it. Desktop GIFs adds one, next to the emoji button: The screenshots show the extension's own interface on a test page that stands in for YouTube's comment box. Desktop GIFs is not on the Chrome Web Store or addons.mozilla.org yet, so it is loaded from a ZIP. There is one for each browser on the latest release. YouTube tabs that are already open get the button without a refresh. Only Chrome is tested. Edge, Brave and other Chromium browsers should work the same way. YouTube tabs that are already open get the button without a refresh. The extension folder of this repository is the extension, and it…
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- Install
- Chrome, Edge, Brave
- Firefox
- From the source
- Updating
- Use
- Troubleshooting
- Limits
- How it works
- Privacy
- License
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What this repository does
Post GIFs in YouTube comments and replies from a desktop browser. Extension for Chrome and Firefox.
Repository facts
- Owner
- rayytor
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 497
- Forks
- 75
- Open issues + pull requests
- 27
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-11T05:43:14.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-14T17:20:02.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: browser-extension, chrome-extension, firefox-extension, gif, manifest-v3, tenor, youtube, youtube-comments
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