Watch a YouTube Shorts video in the normal YouTube player
A simple userscript that adds an 'Unshort' button to the top of any YouTube Shorts page, that opens the video in YouTube's normal playback mode.
YouTube Shorts have a couple of design features that can be quite annoying, such as not having a progress bar with the ability to rewind or fast-forward to a desired spot in the video. Another problem I have encountered with Shorts videos, is that if I accidentally hit the scroll wheel on my mouse then the next video in the playlist is pulled up, and if I scroll back to the video I was watching, I have to start all over from the beginning (again, without the ability to navigate to the spot I was watching before the switch occurred).
Thankfully, shorts can be viewed as 'normal' YouTube videos, with media controls such as an interactive progress bar. Simply modify the video's URL, and replace the sub-string `/shorts/` with `watch?v=`
For example,
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FtrsDAwbMTc
would become
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrsDAwbMTc
