Reviews for YouTube Speed Controller
YouTube Speed Controller by Samuel Li
Review by Firefox user 14172962
Rated 3 out of 5
by Firefox user 14172962, 7 years agoVery simple, does one task very well. As such the design could be improved integrating better into the youtube interface. What it lacks the most is instead of always showing 3x in the bar it could show the actual speed of the video.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe latest version now dynamically updates the icon to show the current playback speed.
34 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by TheMaddHatter, 8 months agoVery nice lightweight extension that works very well almost every time. I'm not sure why but some channels appear to be immune to having a default speed set. I've only found 4 so far. Would love to know if there is a way to fix this.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheFoxFrog, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 16055810, 2 years agoIt works sometimes, but too often I'll load a video from a channel I watch frequently, and it forgets my speed setting. And if you skip far ahead in a video, so YouTube has to reload the stream or change the quality level, the speed adjustment is consistently lost.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Max T, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Skellingtor, 3 years agoworks fine and all but i'm struggling to figure out how the per-channel setting works, because it never seems to save the speeds i set
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16804528, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Valent117, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17061061, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by miltador, 4 years agoVery handy and simple UI, allows to set default speed. Thank you!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14146120, 5 years agoGreat extension. I wish it was available on other browsers, too.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ClaOrz, 5 years agoa pretty nice addons, there is a small bug.. if an ads start playing at the start of the video, the video will start at 1x speed and you need to re-adjust the speed again, even if you already set the default speed
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14094712, 5 years agoBetter than the other add-ons, but you can't get any fraction :/ Is there a reason why all these YT speed controllers don't support (more) exact values?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoYou can set any step size, down to 0.01. (Right click icon > Manage Extension > Preferences). - Rated 4 out of 5by tg, 5 years agoFunctional. BUT please whitelist music.youtube.com domains or others which may not work well having a non 1x speed default.
- Rated 5 out of 5by miniGweek, 5 years agoThanks Samuel Li for this wonderful extension.
This works as expected, I can control the speed for any Youtube video and can set a default speed.
Some suggestions
1. Please improve the docs clearly stating with screenshot how to enable the speed ticker :)
2. A Shortcut key to enable 1x speed will be very useful.
3. - Rated 1 out of 5by Ramzes6, 5 years agoDoesn't work on Firefox 56.0.2 - there is no any icon anywhere in the browser.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Édouard Lopez, 5 years agoWorks as expected: fix video speed but you need to be on the Youtube tab.
I like the idea to have icon in the awesome bar, however I was expecting :
* to see it on every tabs, not just youtube, so I can change speed from anywhere
* that the value reflect current setting instead of a fix `3x`
* valid input using keyboard `Enter`
Improvement will be to have:
* keyboard accessible extension
* a quick way to set back to 1x speed - Rated 2 out of 5by Yinmin, 5 years agodoesn't remember setting for the next tab so effectivity is limited. I'd have to change the speed manually at which point i could just use the native speed control.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ParadymShift, 5 years agoI was impressed! Simple and works excellent for going past 2x speed! <3 Just what I like