YouTube Fast Player: Search for more videos without pausing

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YouTube Fast Player: Search for more videos without pausing

by Brad Linder Apr 13th 2008

One of the things that's always bothered us about YouTube is that there's no way to search for videos without stopping playback of the video you're currently watching (unless you open a new tab or browser window). MSN Video has had a feature for a while that lets you search for videos and create a video playlist without interrupting any video you happen to be watching at the time, but if you want to browse YouTube's library in this way you'll need to look to a third party solution like YouTube Fast Search.

YouTube Fast Search is a nifty web site that lets you play any video you can find on YouTube. While one video is playing, you can search for additional videos and drag and drop them to a playlist window at the bottom of the screen. When your first video is done playing, the next video in your playlist will start. Easy as pie, and something YouTube really should implement on its own site.

[via Google Operating System]

Tags: msn-video, youtube, youtube-fast-search

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nate said 4:48PM on 4-13-2008

Doesn't seem to want to work for me. Tried everything.

muyiwa said 4:54PM on 4-13-2008

This is what youtube should actually look like....

Quikboy said 12:43AM on 4-14-2008

Lol. Like DS said, MSN Video had this for quite awhile. That's probably only one of the few things I actually liked about that site. Though the amount of content is laughable.

Matthias said 6:19AM on 4-20-2008

what do you think of http://www.tubesearch.de ?? I really like their design!!

Anthony said 9:23PM on 4-23-2008

Videovistas.com solved this problem with their app that plays youtube videos in the browser head and frees the entire browser window for additional surfing.

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