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Youtube Playback Speed Control

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How to install Open in Chrome Web Store
CRX ID
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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Control speed of the youtube playback using keyboard. Press '+' to increase and '-' to decrease the playback speed.

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Youtube Playback Speed Control
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[ Added functionality for the extension to work with all html5 videos. If you are having issue with videos other than youtube, feel free to disable it from settings]

Youtube playback speed increase or decrease is just a mouse click or keyboard button away. Get more out of Youtube and control speed of youtube video easily either by clicking the speed overlay button on the top right hand corner or just keyboard button '+' and '-'. Keyboard button are configurable and if you want to use different key, you can change this default keys from settings tab.

With HTML5 Video playback on YouTube, you can speed up and slow down the currently watching videos. I loved this feature. But still it was too many mouse clicks for me. So, this extension was created to control the playback speed using keyboard. Press '+' to increase the playback speed and '-' to decrease the playback speed. If '+' and '-' keys are already used by other extension or you want to use different key, you can change this default keys from settings tab.

This extension even works for the HTML5 YouTube player embedded in other website. Make sure that the player is in focus. A website can embed multiple YouTube player and the keyboard shortcuts will effect the currently playing one.

Everything works no change needed. Please check extension options for more setting options. You can change playback rate increment from default 0.25 to any desired increment.

Note:
- The control may not appear the first time the extension is installed or updated. Refreshing the page should make it work.
- Close the setting page after making changes for the extension to function properly.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.15
- Fixed an issue reported by users after chrome update Version 127. Version 0.0.14 didn't fix the issue.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.14
- Fixed an issue reported by users after chrome update Version 127. Wasn't fully able to replicate the issue but fixed the error that appeared on the console.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.13
- Allow the extension to work with all html5 video. Added option to disable it if needed.
- Updated Bootstrap & Jquery

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.12
- Fixed a issue with playback button remaining on full screen even with FadeInFadeOut option.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.11
- Fixed a bug that breaks the playback button display when switching full screen and back.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.10
- Fixed a major bug of playback button not showing up sometimes.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.9
- Updated to Manifest v3 required by Extension development

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.8
- Added option to hide setting button

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.7
- Removed webRequest, activeTab permission.
- Easy access to setting page.
- Changes to comply with chrome web store.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.6
- Removed the need to access to full browser history.
- Fixed the shortcut assigned for speed up and down are not taken into account and reset to "0" issue.
- Added more control over position of playback rate increase/decrease button. Added TopLeft, TopMiddle, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomMiddle, BottomRight option for position.
- Fixed the extension overlay from preventing "press x to close" when in miniplayer mode.
- Fixed hotkeys triggering when typing in comments.
- Added option to view time saved using this extension in option page.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.5
- Added an option to disable Shift+MouseScroll combination.
- Shows the speed control for 300 millisecond when the speed is changed.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.4
- Added a reset playback speed to 1x feature. By default it's '*', but user can change. Clicking the playback rate display also reset to 1x.
- Added increase or decrease of playback speed using Shift+MouseScroll combination.
- Added 'Up Arrow' and 'Down Arrow' to key options (Request from user).

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.3
- Made extension more stable. The extension successfully loads every time now (unlike its predecessor where CTRL+F5 was needed sometime)
- Fixed the bug with playlist not advancing to next video.
- Fixed the bug of comments not loading sometime.
- Made the extension work with embedded videos almost all the time.
- Supports user defined playback rate increment that user can set from settings.
- Added more speed options. Supports higher playback rate. Note: Sound will not work for higher than 4x.

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.2
- Updated to a user friendly display of the playback rate and added increase/decrease button.
- Fixed the bug of '+' and '-' buttons located next to backspace not working. Only the '+' and '-' buttons of Numeric keypad was working.
- Added various mode of playback rate display (Always, Hide/Show, Simple and None).

★ YPSC - Version 0.0.1
- Basic functionality of changing youtube playback rate using keyboard.

Latest reviews

Haidryyy y
great extension, NEVER had any issues so far
Jimmy Flag Captain
very cool
Renaud
great
M.Daniyal Ismail
scasc
Anonymous
nice
Anonymous
works well enough, sometimes shift > < doesn't work. But good enough so overall happy w/ experience
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
best
Anonymous
Nice
Anonymous
works so well!
Anonymous
Just A Live Saver
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
please update the extension according to the new yt update.
Anonymous
Best
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
It is perfect
Anonymous
👏🏽👏🏽kudos to developer
Anonymous
Helped me
Anonymous
Helped me so much ! 👍
Anonymous
Doing god's work
Anonymous
worst
Anonymous
Very good, and it's not easy to accidently speed up or slow down.
Anonymous
Best yt extension
Anonymous
no work
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
wow
Anonymous
I am giving this 5 stars because it is worth it. I will add two improvements: (1) The placement of it on the video should not be on the top right because a person ends up clicking the "i" (information) button for the channel. (2) Is it possible to make the speeds between 0 and 1 more granular? Because we can go up to 16x in steps of 0.25x, but might be good to reduce the speed also by 0.05x or 0.1x only in the section between 0 and 1 - instead of 0.25x steps. Reasoning is because 0 to 1 is slower than normal playback, and above 1 is faster than normal playback. So we have fewer levels in the slower than we do in the faster.
Anonymous
nice
Anonymous
It works! Thank you for saving my sanity
Anonymous
nice
Anonymous
The update completely ruined the compatibility with other websites while adding a new feature that says it does just that. I wish I could go back so it could actually work.
Anonymous
awesome now that its paid..
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
very useful, and can be used to skip ads
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
Works perfectly
Anonymous
this extension has saved my fricking 15 days, like im not even kidding, tap the setting icon to see yourself
Anonymous
its working.
Anonymous
Love it bro!!!!💖💕 And i have a question! How it is FREE??????
Anonymous
i love it
Anonymous
such a beautiful extension . love it
Anonymous
I've been using Shift + > for years, and YouTube disabled it in one day and now asks for PREMIUM. Thank you so much for this extension. I would never give them money for something they gave away for free.
Anonymous
i've used this for a long time and love it, but it won't save when I change the things in the options menu, i'll hit save, it says saved, then i wait, reload, makesure youtube isn't open, all that, and i reopen settings and it's back to default
Anonymous
it doesnt work
Anonymous
best
Anonymous
works
Anonymous
Works for MS Edge as of 12.2025
Anonymous
gooddfds
Anonymous
16x speed is insane