Video Speed Controller
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta
Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind HTML5 audio/video with shortcuts
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Description from store
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. 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.
- Works on any site with HTML5 media: YouTube, Netflix, local files, etc, including audio.
- Fine-grained speed controls and defaults - 0.07x to 16x in configurable increments.
- Fully customizable shortcuts: remap every key, add modifier combos, custom speed toggles.
- Configurable per-site speed rules - set a default playback speed for specific domains.
- Option to persist your last speed across sessions and tabs.
- Reposition the on-video speed indicator anywhere you like.
Hover over the speed 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.
Latest reviews
- sp su
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/picture-in-picture-floati/adnielbhikcbmegcfampbclagcacboff. When using this picture-in-picture extension, clicking the picture-in-picture icon causes the video playback speed to reset to 1x after the window shrinks. Additionally, pressing the G key plays the video at 1.8x speed (I have it set to 2x). Clicking the “+” button only increases the speed by 0.1x (I set it to 0.5x). Is there a way to change this? Thank you. By the way, the above issue occurs on the latest version of Chrome for Windows 10 (Version 147.0.7727.117, Stable, 64-bit).
- Wess
- Extension used to work fine - now it's not showing the speed overlay and whenever I pause or seek backward/forwards in a youtube video it resets the speed back to 1.00x.
- Alphanso D'Souza
- Works like a charm! -- Thank-you!
- cyberlionn
- Dear author, it seems your app sometimes makes chrome not responding for 5-10 seconds
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- GOAT!!!
- NVThường
- Very good
- auhguhk okknn
- now, there is no X button
- Peter Wong (WKL)
- New bug after today update, please fix and I will change this review to 5 stars! The speed would reset to 1.00 after pause. This plugin is very good without these bug.
- Guy Bental
- Excellent plugin! had no issues up to recently where Controller seems to disappear, despite being on 1.00 opacity, hope it gets fixed soon!
- Erik Stewart (艾祥龍)
- New bug noticed today, please fix and I will change this review to 5 stars! Just started today for me: every Youtube video I watch will initially stay at the desired speed, but if I pause Youtube or use the arrow keys to skip 5s forwards or backwards, the speed will reset to 1.00 every time. This is extremely annoying and basically makes the tool unusable. Is this something that you would be able to fix? Thank you!
- Elliot0407 Ho
- works wonderfully on multiple wesites.
- Rostyslav Zaporozhets
- love it
- João Vitor
- I just found a permanent fix for the extension that prevents YouTube videos from playing: just go to the extension's view web permissions and block intrusive ads.
- Jonas
- It's crashing the player making the video stop. I tested with all my other extensions and the video plays normally when I turn this one off. Doesn't happen with every video. I'm using Brave.
- I L
- used it for years, but about week ago it starts conflicting with YT, some chances that at start video disappears, sadly must disable until it got fixed
- Dániel Tóth
- I was using it for years with no problem, but as of 2026.04.10. something ruined the extension. The speed indicator does not appear or hide, the speed or timeskipping features does not work. Does not find the videos on a site like before. I don't know what happened,( if its a chrome issue or the extension) but as of current state, the extension does not work.
- محمد عبدالله
- was working ok on YT. but now YT refuse to load videos if this is enabled.
- Swargaraj Bhowmik
- TOTALLY RUINED THE EXTENSION
- slow
- sadly the newest version doesn't save your speed anymore and just randomly switches the speed if you have multiple videoplayers running at different speeds. very frustrating
- Wünderboy
- This used to be a useful extension that worked, now it changes the speed of videos randomly and I can't even turn it off when I'm not using it because even disabled it still does it's thing incorrectly. Probably malware at this point.
- John Borch
- The latest update is much worse than it was before！！！！！I had to reset some of my shortcuts to make the overlay buttons work correctly. The x button to close the overlay is gone so you have to have a keybind. It used to be that speed is saved on a overall level and not when you press play. (Like you have 2 youtube videos open but want them on diffrent speed). So I had to go in and unpress the Remember playback speed.Please fix that！！！！！！
- Zehir mhann
- Thanks for your efforts for us non-QWERTY keyboard users, it's appreciated <3 Now the only thing missing is to auto-hide the controller on Youtube (when Youtube controls disappear). Thank you
- Salep
- thank u for adding export/import
- João Vitor
- The problem of the video not playing is not happening anymore. Thanks for the fix!!
- Clinton De Young
- This used to be great until it started assuming my keyboard layout is QWERTY this week and screwed up all my keybindings. I don't know if this is a Chromium thing or a Video Speed Controller thing, but whoever did it, please don't make assumptions regarding keyboard layouts. That's what the OS is for.
- Manju Dadi
- why its not wprking currently from yestersday.
- Emirhan
- 5 star but !!!!!please fix youtube speed shorcuts not working this update!!!!!
- Venktesh
- the recent update is so messy
- Luca Pranay
- Update 0.10.0 messes with YouTube's speed controller - will give 5 stars again when fixed
- 顥軒
- Update 0.10.0 causes conflicts with YouTube's native speed controller
- ᄂᄋᄀ
- Why are the YouTube playback speed shortcut keys not working?
- Jenil
- just awesome
- João Vitor
- After the recent update, I can no longer play YouTube videos with this addon enabled. When the addon is on, the video turns white as if it has been removed from the layout. No matter how many times I reload the page, the same thing happens. The only solution was to disable the addon. And this is sad because it was my favourite addon ever.
- Josué Monteiro
- top most usefull extensions!!
- Johan Hultin
- The latest update is much worse than it was before. I had to reset some of my shortcuts to make the overlay buttons work correctly. The x button to close the overlay is gone so you have to have a keybind. It used to be that speed is saved on a overall level and not when you press play. (Like you have 2 youtube videos open but want them on diffrent speed). So I had to go in and unpress the Remember playback speed.
- Gavin Orcutt
- Been using this for years and the QOL improvement is unmatched. That being said, there has been a recent update where the icon stays hidden even as I am adjusting the speed, instead of briefly appearing and then disappearing again. This makes it somewhat annoying to get to the speed I want. It would be nice if this behavior was reverted or changed to an option in the settings.
- daniel cassidy
- use to work just fine but for some reason now when you want to speed up the playback by pressing ctrl D. If I just press "D" I get a popup with a video version. select it again and it jumps.20 times the speed, not .10. pressing "S" and speed decreases fine.
- mohamed elzeibak
- 10 out of 10 amazing
- Laaibah Sohail
- Essential extension! It gives you better speed control than YouTube Premium for free. You can set any speed you want, far exceeding the standard options. 10/10!
- Lance Traghor
- This is really great for when you start getting too excited while watching homework videos and need to slow things down to keep the learning going in a controlled manner. Thanks so much for this. 6/5 stars.
- Islam Waleed
- great and responsive (with some errors some times). the most important feature is speeding videos outside youtube.
- Faisal Alkheraiji
- A must have for Chrome. I've been using this for years now. Thank you to the team behind it !
- Bones
- thanks hxsain for showing me this
- Mark Reimers
- So happy to find this solution to speeding up HTML5 videos on a windows 11 system with Chrome. Kudos to the developer and hopefully any bugs will be resolved over time.
- Luis
- Thanks so much, it helps me too
- Mikko Rintala
- I'm a long time user and want to give credit where it is due. After migrating to Linux, I wasn't able to map the same shortcut keys I've used to (localization related). I tried several other similar speed control extensions and those that weren't limited in functionality performed so sluggishly that at the end of the day I was happy to return to the trusted old tool and mapping new keys. Realizing how big differences such a relatively simple plugin can have based on implementation made me really appreciate the developer's effort. If you care about responsiveness and/or are running older hardware, I'd say you should go with this one.
- pranay mittal
- amazing extention have been using it for a long time now and it makes it really easy to watch lectures in 4x or 5x speeds along with some ad blocker its great for youtube
- Zura
- wow. great extension. for musicians it's so good. with Mark (M) and Jump (J) functions. Preferred speed, restore speed...
- George H.
- worked immediately after page reload
- max c
- its glitchy and laggy on brave browser , fix it