New YouTube Player
YouTube April 30th, 2008 - By Haochi
YouTube is now testing a new video player on its site right now. I think the new player looks cleaner, but it removed the “go back” button - which is quite useful in my opinion. If you want to try out the new player, just click on the 
link below the player and you can always go back to the old player if you don’t like the new one.
UPDATE: You can use keyboard shortcuts in this new player.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:53 am
shortcuts!!! YAY!!!!
but.. how many shortcuts are?
I only seem to find one: spacebar for pause/play
But it doesn’t work in fullscreen mode (pity) and I also miss the “F” key for entering fullscreen.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Here’s a list of shortcuts.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I hate players with a popup style volume control. Good luck getting it to work correctly 100% of the time.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:23 am
Can anyone tell me why Youtube won’t let me play videos using the old player — the one with the Replay function. If I want to play videos, I have to use the new player.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am
how do you go back to the old player?
i’m pretty sure I accidentally clicked ‘try the new player’
May 29th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
The volume control is a bit buggy and the progress bar slides when you select it, making it harder to find a specific part in the video.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:18 am
I uber-loved the old player since they previously had the stop button if yo wanted to load the video first…
also, now it’s so hard to navigate in the status bar…
I hope this change is not permanent…