Twitch High Quality
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
Force Twitch streams to use source quality and prevent downscaling
BIG UPDATE! ALL ISSUES FIXED AND WORKING BETTER THAN EVER. DOWNSCALING PREVENTION AND ALSO ABILITY TO FORCE SOURCE QUALITY.
By default source quality is on but can toggle off and still prevent downscaling while in auto, or any other chosen quality.
Twitch High Quality
Stop Stream Quality From Dropping When You're Not Watching
Twitch High Quality keeps your streams crystal clear even when you switch tabs, minimize windows, or work on other tasks. No more blurry, pixelated streams when you're multitasking!
Why You Need This:
🎯 The Problem
Ever notice how Twitch streams automatically become blurry and low-quality the moment you switch to another tab? That's Twitch trying to "save bandwidth" - but what if you have great internet and want to keep watching in HD?
✅ The Solution
Twitch High Quality forces streams to stay at Source quality (the highest possible) no matter what you're doing:
✨ Crystal clear streams even in background tabs
🎮 Perfect for gamers who want to watch streams while playing
💼 Great for work - keep streams running while being productive
📺 Ideal for multiple monitors - watch in HD on your second screen
What Makes It Amazing
🚀 Instant Results
Works immediately after installation
No setup required - just install and enjoy HD streams
Automatically detects when you're on Twitch or Viewing Embedded Twitch Streams or VODs
🎨 Beautiful & Simple
Clean interface that matches Twitch's design
Easy on/off toggle - that's it!
Shows you exactly what quality you're getting
🔧 Smart Technology
Works with live streams, saved videos, and clips
Handles Twitch's tricky navigation automatically
Keeps working even when you reload pages
Perfect For
🎮 Gamers watching streams while playing
💻 Workers who like background entertainment
📚 Students multitasking between study and streams
🎬 Anyone who wants the best quality possible
Privacy & Security
🔒 Your Data Stays Private
Zero tracking - we don't collect any personal information
No accounts - no sign-ups or personal data required
Local only - all settings stay on your computer
No ads - completely ad-free experience
🛡️ Safe & Secure
Only accesses Twitch Streams and Videos (nowhere else)
Uses Chrome's latest security standards
No hidden permissions or background activity
Latest reviews
- Zu LuL
- Doesn't work properly at the time of this review... sometimes it changes back to 720p even though the stream has higher options to choose from , like 1080p
- Dan Young
- Hi Dev! I've used this extension for a while and have found it extremely useful! The latest update was a problem, but I appreciate your response to the response and was looking forward to the fix. Unfortunately Chrome's policies have finally ticked me off enough to leave, so I wanted to ask if you might be able to port this extension to Firefox? Thanks for your work regardless.
- Philipp Bauer
- The prevent background downscaling doesn't work.
- Jakub Kubo
- not working
- Alejandro Rodríguez Pérez
- Worked fine until it asked to read all my data. Switched to Twitch AntiQuality Switcher instead.
- John Dick
- Hey dev. You can read my data all you want but at least make the extension work like it used to do.
- Shaban
- apparently, after today's update (June 22nd, 2025), this extension no longer works. it still worked perfectly fine yesterday but right after the extension was updated today, it stopped working :( Edge Version 137.0.3296.83
- Jmac
- After the recent update it requires the permission "to read and change all your data on all websites". Any excuses, dev?
- Ryan Smith
- This seems to work great and fixes a huge annoyance! I did have one question. In the description it talks about enabling it per-stream, where is that configuration? Maybe update the description with more details? Thanks much.
- Kevin Jin
- Can you make it work on the embedded player as well?
- Jonathan
- Doesn't work
- Sai Oku
- Honestly never rate extensions but this one deserves it. Its simple, effective, and does what it says. I was researching for hours for a solution to this problem, and this fixed it. Thank you sm for sharing this!
- Lardman
- as todd howard would say.. It just works
- Mob Barley (Addicted to streams)
- Ya this is keeping the stream in perfect quality. I like that I can also disable on some tabs so I can have dj streams in the background not using extra uneeded data and still have any streams I want in top quality at the same time. How was this not a thing before this.. Thank you!
- Overly Critical Gamers
- For years I've been putting up with Twitch sassing me whenever I dare to switch over to another tab and multitask for more than a few seconds. Quality gets throttled down and sometimes a stream freezes altogether just because I wasn't "actively" watching that window, as if Twitch thinks viewers NEED to be looking at a stream at all times. These problems would usually lead to delay adding up over time, so if I left someone up on lurk for a couple hours while doing other things, I'd find that my chat would be lagging minutes behind unless I refreshed the browser...which often caused ads to start up again just because I had the audacity to try and resolve a delay caused by Twitch's weird quality throttling. As far as I can tell, this plug-in fixes all that. I was a day one user when I happened upon the announcement of this being released and I am absolutely grateful to the developer for taking the time to make this.
- Erik
- Did what it says it does, Nice.