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Thursday, 7 July 2011

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Enhance Youtube Viewing Experience with New Cosmic Panda Interface

Posted: 07 Jul 2011 01:10 PM PDT

After the cool Gmail redesign, Youtube added a new elegant looking user interface (under testing) called Cosmic Panda to to enhance your viewing experience on youtube. Some of the features you can see with "cosmic panda over the double rainbow":

New experience for watching videos and playlists
More page designs and better editing tools to customize your channel
Keep watching when moving between videos, playlists, and channels (Chrome only)
Stylish new look and feel

And I have decided to use it permanently as the default interface for youtube. With the dark background and different video sizes, modes watching videos got even better. See below…

Enhance Youtube Viewing Experience with New Cosmic Panda Interface

What I liked more is the Channel / Youtuber’s profile page. It now shows the total views, subscribers and 3 tabs giving you better navigation and access to the videos. (See below)

Enhance Youtube Viewing Experience with New Cosmic Panda Interface

Compared to the last ugly design of the site, this one is quite refreshing… I really liked it a lot and I recommend that you should check it out here.

► Go to youtube.com/cosmicpanda

and click the "Try it Out" button to test it.

Enhance Youtube Viewing Experience with New Cosmic Panda Interface

And if you don’t like it, you can switch back to the Classic version (for the time being). But, I would have also liked it a lot if youtube disabled auto-play on youtube videos and let uses press Play to watch a video.

Also read our tip on how to get link to play Youtube video from particular time and how to use Youtube Charts to find viral videos.