Find the oldest available YouTube comments directly in YouTube's familiar interface.
Choose Oldest first in the comment sort menu. Start with 10 comments, or select Show first 100. Results use native YouTube comment cards, including avatars and expandable replies.
- Oldest first alongside YouTube's Top and Newest options.
- The first 10 or 100 available top-level comments.
- Native comment cards and reply expansion.
- Stop, retry, refresh, and temporary results for the current tab.
- Save results as a local JSON file.
- YouTube light and dark themes.
Switch back to Top or Newest to restore the original comment list. The extension toolbar button opens the comment sort menu.
Firefox Add-ons: First Comments. Version 1.2.0 was submitted on September 15, 2026 and was awaiting review at the time of this upload. The store page may be unavailable until Mozilla publishes it.
Chrome development build: download first-comments-1.2.0-chrome.zip, extract it, open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the extracted folder containing manifest.json. Reload existing YouTube tabs.
Firefox temporary build: download and extract first-comments-1.2.0-firefox.zip, open about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox, choose Load Temporary Add-on, and select manifest.json. This unsigned development build is removed when Firefox restarts. Use the signed store version once available for a permanent installation.
Chrome Web Store publication is pending developer registration. The GitHub release packages are development builds; the Firefox ZIP is not Mozilla-signed.
Works on regular desktop www.youtube.com video pages. Firefox 142 or later is required. Shorts are not supported.
Only available top-level comments are included in the initial search. Replies can be expanded separately. Deleted, hidden, restricted, and session-unavailable comments cannot be recovered. Age-restricted videos may not work.
Search and rendering use experimental internal YouTube formats. YouTube changes, pinned comments, or rate limits can prevent completion. Finding 100 comments can take longer than finding 10; no fixed speed or complete historical archive is promised.
Reply expansion was tested without signing in. Signed-in liking and posting remain unverified. The extension never likes or posts automatically.
Search begins when you request it. Public search requests omit account cookies and page referrers. Native comment rendering then uses the current YouTube page's normal session, including cookies when signed in.
There is no developer backend, advertising, analytics, API key, separate extension account, or persistent extension cache. Results stay in the current tab unless exported. YouTube receives requests and ordinary network information such as your IP address.
Read the privacy policy for details. All executable code is bundled.
Node.js 20 or later and npm are required. Runtime code has no third-party dependencies.
npm ci
npm test
npm run buildThe build copies source to chrome/ and firefox/ and writes the Firefox manifest settings. Load either folder using the development installation instructions above. There is no compilation, transpilation, or minification.
To run the browser fixture tests:
npx playwright install chromium
npm run test:ui
npm run test:bridgeTo create and verify ZIP packages in dist/:
npm run packagePNG icons are included. npm run build:icons optionally regenerates them from assets/icon.svg.
src/core.js implements chronological search, src/content.js integrates the interface, and src/native-bridge.js adapts the extension's rendering request in YouTube's page context. Tests and build tools are included. See validation notes and the changelog.
Keep Firefox ID first-comments@local.invalid unchanged for store updates. Firefox declares browsingActivity, websiteContent, and authenticationInfo for the requested YouTube operations. There is no cookies API permission.
Report an issue or email galaktionvs2002@gmail.com.
Free to install and use under LICENSE.txt. The source is public for inspection; the existing All Rights Reserved license remains in effect.
First Comments is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or YouTube.