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Video Speed Controller

by igrigorik

v0.9.5 Updated Sep 9, 2025 95.39KiB
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★ 4.54
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Description

HTML5 video provides native APIs to accelerate playback of any video, but most implemented players either hide or limit this functionality. This extension fixes that, plus more... It will help you optimize your video viewing by allowing you to make quick playback speed adjustments, as well as rewind the video to hear the last few second one more time. We don't read at a constant speed, and we talk much slower than we read - there is no reason why we have to listen at a constant speed and at a (very) slow rate. Once the extension is installed simply navigate to any page that offers HTML5 video, and you'll see a speed indicator in top left corner of the video player. Hover over the indicator to reveal the controls to accelerate, slowdown, or rewind the video (10 seconds + lowers playback speed). Or, even better, use your keyboard: - S - decrease playback speed. - D - increase playback speed. - R - reset playback speed. - Z - rewind video by 10 seconds. - X - advance video by 10 seconds. - V - show/hide controller. If you prefer other shortcuts, want to change the increment value, or want the player to remember your playback speed in the future, head into the settings page and customize it to your heart's content.
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Reviews (200 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-03-10
max c

its glitchy and laggy on brave browser , fix it

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-17
Ruth Butler

does not work for me.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-31
Duval singleton

does not work.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-17
Bryan

disable on site option removed

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-06
John Wannerot

Playback speed reverts to slower speed after some time.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-04
Luis

options dont get saved. back to 0.74

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-03
yuuri

Option not saved.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-30
Shaurya Pathak

using it for the past 2 years please fix the 1.8 speed lag it's annoying

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-15
Death or life?

Not good

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-02
Sirius

Sometimes when you start a video it changes randomly the video speed without being touched... and somethimes you can't even roll it back to 1.00 speed because it changes to numbers that don't match your settings of the + - buttons. You had ONE JOB. ONE SIMPLE JOB. And you just can't do it.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-19
Thomas González

Completely broken by update

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-17
fakes1lent

New update was pushed recently that has broken pretty much everything within the extension. Will be moving to another extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-16
Thomas D (ThomasD)

The new update breaks it. So annoying! whenever i try to return to 1x speed it returns to 2x or something. It didnt behave like this before. Please fix.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-16
Editronix

It was working fine for 2 years but maybe with new update(i dont know) the reset buttons (R) speed is always returning to 1.20x (should be 1.0). When i check the settings i see its coming back to 1.20 even if i change to 1.0. I am having this trouble for couple days .

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-12
Lukasz CzegoSzukasz

Dangerous extension, avoid!

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-11
Nik Friedman TeBockhorst

Extension injects code which sends you to an affiliate site when first visiting many domains. This is ad fraud and also takes money away from actual affiliates, publishers, and content creators. AVOID!

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-09
Daniel Chance

After years (?) of using this, suddenly every video is loading at 1.25x speed despite me not changing anything and seeing nothing in the settings to indicate this should be happening, and restarting the browser did nothing. Something is broken.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-07
Варлок

Settings are reset when you turn on a video in another tab.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-06
pironiero

doesnt remember any options\settings i put in.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-30
Rohit

worst update

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-28
Sahil Thakkar

New update messed up a lot of stuff. Scrolling on the video speed no longer changes the speed. Sometimes it randomly goes to 0.07x randomly. And pressing R to reset to last used speed doesn't work anymore!!!!!!!!!

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-25
Jr Mike

worst update ever

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-23
Hunter Robbins

Stopped working. After upgrading my OS, the Video Speed Controller has ceased to work. Even before that, it only worked a fraction of the time. I't just not reliable.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-22
Anurag Kashyap

Video speed keep reverting to 0.07 on jiohotstar.com

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-17
nelson lai

When will the dev fix the damn 0.07 issue

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-12
Oleg Kh

Screw the last update, my settings and bind buttons reset almost every day. But I enjoyed the extension all the time before

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-04
KirK Lazarus

On many sites, videos start playing at 0.07x speed, and even when moving forward or backward, the speed automatically resets to 0.07x. Latest update ruined it.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-02
Jenifer Purnomo

Doesn't work on Indonesia's Disney+ Hotstar

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-01
Moshe Rubin

Latest update breaks Smartsheet. Please roll back

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-01
Connor Byers

Another once great extension that has turned into MalWare.... per ActiveCampaigns support "Thanks for your patience. I have heard back from our Technical team regarding this. The code possibly appears from someone from your team accessing the editor that is running an extension on their device that is injecting the code into the campaign's HTML. They have pointed out because it shows something like ... src="chrome-extension://nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk/... If you search online for nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk, you will see that it is an extension called "Video Speed Controller.""

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-31
Martin Bligh

Worked great until the last day or so (0.9.2). Now starts at 0.07x in Plex, and "forgets" speed setting in youtube whenever switching resolution or videos. Please rollback latest release to the previous working one.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-31
Jordan Kirlin

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-30
영웅임

0.07x fix

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-30
Armaan Singh

This extension was good before the recent update. Devs, please fix this: If you hold down space or LMB to speed up a video using the default controls on YouTube, the display on the top left will still show 2.00 even after you let go of the button. Then, if you rewind or advance the video using the arrow keys, it will go to 2X speed and you have to press "R" to reset it. It was all fine before this update. On top of this, I added "youtube.com" and "www.youtube.com" to the blocked websites list, but it doesn't work, but that could be my own error. Rating 1 star in hopes of grabbing the attention of the devs.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-29
Serhii

QA much? Update broke all the settings and defaults are weird. 0.05 step is also unavailable now, it resets to 0.1.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-29
G

Wow bro, way to ruin it. Now it starts at 0.07

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-28
Brandon Johnson

i literally tried to move one of the playback speed on the video player settings for Youtube, but the Speed stays the Same, way to ruin the Extension, do something right and FIX IT!!!!!!!!!

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-23
Kiel

This prevents dailymotion streams from working, the news agency in my region exclusively uses them and i had to disable all my extensions one by one until i determined it is this app.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-23
Amadou Condé

There are now two controllers appearing in the sceen, one of which won't disappear no matter if you check hide or not, it's suck

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-19
Punched

Stopped working after the most recent update.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-18
Daniel Szabo

controller dont show up in crunchyroll anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Ajay Venigalla

New update is broken on most sites. EDIT: It works again now. And its broken again.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Ibm

today's update is garbage, it's broken, get is back

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Paras Verma

The new update has broke the extension. It stopped working on so many websites. PLEASE FIX THIS OR REVERT THE CHANGE

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-17
Mohamed Sayed Al-Ahl

why it is not working now!!! what have you done??!

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-07
Isaac King

This extension is changing the layout of pages even when there's no video anywhere on them, adding unnecessary scrollbars that don't exist when I disable the extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-17
M.

it regularly froze my entire Computer, pretty concerning

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-11
Mahavir Jadhav

not work means working only add crome and after shatdown laptop open crome not work then if wanted to work then again remove after that add again its embarrssing ,,,,,,,,,,

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-10
Spocckce Delton

Every time I rewind a video or livestream, it suddenly changes from 1x speed to 1.25x playback speed, this bug is just annoying!

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-16
Marquesio Gerásimo

Don't work with primevideo, black screen when playing a video.

Permissions (2)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.9.5
Updated Sep 9, 2025
Size 95.39KiB
First Seen Mar 27, 2026