Reviews for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv by Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
719 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15060786, 5 years agoWorks okay, but my main problem is that it loses a lot of twitch functionality. I'm especially interested in "currently online followed" list on the left. Is there a way to bring it back while using this extension? Otherwise I have no complaints.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14335991, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15052991, 5 years agoall of a sudden the chat panel is white and tells me to click login and open an external window. when i do it just goes doesn't work and i can't chat at all. tried reinstall.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15047343, 5 years ago**I've been using this addon for years now and I still hold it as one the best addons on Firefox. However! I'm dropping it down to 4 stars after all these years b/c it's crazy that we STILL cannot follow raids. That really needs to be added**
This extension is one of the most important plugins I run. The ability to resize the playing window is absolutely game changing. All the customization options are extremely helpful. I would LOVE something like this for Youtube... hint hint - Rated 5 out of 5by Jake B, 5 years agoEDIT: works fine with the fix suggested by the dev, thanks!
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It's been great in the past 2 months that I've been using it, but recently the video has been freezing randomly like the other recent reviews say. Audio continues to play however. Simply pausing/unpausing as well as refreshing the tab will only give me a black video. I have to close and reopen the tab to fix it, but it will freeze again eventually. This doesn't happen in the native player. This is a great extension, please look into this issue!Developer response
posted 5 years agoPlease disable WebRender until Firefox developers fix this issue. See https://www.google.com/search?q=disable+firefox+webrender - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15029702, 5 years agoBUG: There is black screen when i hover over any button from a extension. The screen freezes but the sound still playing.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoPlease disable WebRender until Firefox developers fix this issue. See https://www.google.com/search?q=disable+firefox+webrender - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13309861, 5 years agoI have the same problem reported by pasildan. It happens when i hover over any button from a extension. The screen freezes but the sound still playing. Don't happen in the Chrome only in Firefox.
*Update* I get the same outcome even after disabling webrender.Developer response
posted 5 years agoPlease disable WebRender until Firefox developers fix this issue. See https://www.google.com/search?q=disable+firefox+webrender - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14934070, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15020091, 5 years agoGreat addon, but as of last night the app doesnt appear or work in firefox, brave, or any other browser that I installed it on. It shows up in the extension, but not where it should be to click to activate it when a streamers live stream starts. Either its outdated, or the browsers did an update.
- Rated 4 out of 5by K-Bone, 5 years agoLove the add on, would love for this to support BetterTwitchTV add on as well.
EDIT: Like SPF before me, for some reason this extension will load the stream player itself but won't load the chat in Firefox. But I did notice that with this extension, chat loads without a problem in a Firefox fork like Comodo IceDragon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15009380, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 11803080, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ysengrimus, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Akatsuki, 5 years agoIt's pretty great, just set it up by yourself, it's more advanced then the default one of course.
But how to play archived streams? I tried adding this after ext. adress -> "player.html?videos=421388813" but of course that didn't help. Any way how to play archives? - Rated 5 out of 5by Almost Different, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13705597, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13645742, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by UHYMM, 5 years agoGreat extension! I have only 1 main issue: chat doesn't pause while scrolling. Try to fix it, please.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13853248, 5 years agoNot perfect, to be frankly, yet very performative and promising. I'm really looking forward this addon get better in future.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14520337, 5 years agoCouldn't find a way to scroll down the page to see the streamer's info other than disable this addon
- Rated 5 out of 5by Evan Sims, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14744939, 5 years agoAlex, I started having a problem since Version 2019.1.23 Released Jan 23, 2019. The player doesn't start auto-playing when I go to any channel. Player opens but the stream is paused. I have to push "space" every time to make it start playing. Is there a solution to this?
Other than that everything's great. - Rated 3 out of 5by BlayZin, 5 years agoOn firefox the chat doesn't pause while scrolling. Luckily there is an extension that fixes this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch-chat-scroll-fix/ but sadly it doesn't work together with this extension so I can't really use it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13149706, 6 years ago