Youtube Playback Speed Control

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

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Description from store 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. ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - 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. ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - Version 0.0.5 - Added an option to disable Shift+MouseScroll combination. - Shows the speed control for 300 millisecond when the speed is changed. ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - 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). ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - 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. ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - 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). ★ Youtube Playback Speed Control - Version 0.0.1 - Basic functionality of changing youtube playback rate using keyboard.

Latest reviews

(2025-09-09) trash
(2025-09-09) i just loved it.
(2025-09-08) very good! and i like that u can customize how much u wanna up the speed. It would be GREAT if u guys had an update where this feature could also work on a video from EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE .
(2025-09-07) It would be good if it were possible to quickly turn on and quickly turn off the plugin. If press in the middle, then I can only reset it to 1.00, but if I need to turn on the speed x3.5 back, then I have to press on ">>" five times. It would be better if, after reset when repetition of pressing the middle button, I could return to the last value, for example, quickly switch between the x1 and x3.5 modes
(2025-09-07) he
(2025-09-07) not bad
(2025-09-06) The keyboard commands stopped working properly recently, the reset key sets it to 2x speed, the increase speed sets it to 3x and the decrease sets it to random values like 0.56, 0.38 an 0.10. If they fix that it is a 5 star extension. edit: the problems are with different commands than the default
(2025-09-05) Nice extension to speed ads Gamers Club.
(2025-09-05) Just + and - is enough to speed up and down . More helpful for uni students
(2025-09-05) very good
(2025-09-04) trash
(2025-08-31) Simple, fast, reliable, works with many video platforms.
(2025-08-29) Works great and you can even use it to speed through ads.
(2025-08-29) Gotta turn it off, it's blocking youtube videos from playing. Reinstalling fixed it.
(2025-08-29) Very simple, very helpful. Best speed controller of all.
(2025-08-28) Fix pls, not working currently
(2025-08-28) Fun, simple and useful.
(2025-08-28) Excellent!
(2025-08-28) doesnt work
(2025-08-27) doesnt work
(2025-08-26) Perfect
(2025-08-24) simply the best for productivity
(2025-08-24) please put an ai feature, where if its music video it changes to normal speed
(2025-08-20) very useful extension for me and i am damn sure that you will also enjoy it and save your time
(2025-08-19) Love it sm and I can't watch any video at 1x now. Idk but I enjoy watching stuff in 3-4x or beyond as long as I can understand it all. Ofc not educational videos or shi where I actually have to learn but ye
(2025-08-19) it is not working properly
(2025-08-19) Nice
(2025-08-18) Works ifine, awesome Windows 11
(2025-08-17) perfect
(2025-08-16) good
(2025-08-16) best
(2025-08-15) Pro
(2025-08-12) Works. No speed limit. No stutter if the hardware can handle it. Fine grained control: push the speed up little by little, the brain will follow through to x3 speed and beyond.
(2025-08-11) best
(2025-08-09) Best in class so far
(2025-08-09) perfect
(2025-08-08) Best for studying online, works on all sites and speeds up ads too. Loved it.
(2025-08-07) peak, lets u speed up ads
(2025-08-07) the best simply the best all you need to do is to spend some time its settings
(2025-08-05) IF THIS IS NOT WORKING. DO THIS click on options, and you will see an option to always display, click on it, reload, and it will appear
(2025-08-04) GOOD
(2025-08-04) RELOAD FIRST then it work all 1 star review fake reload vid
(2025-08-03) best
(2025-08-02) it doesnt work. Whenever i click the extension button it just takes me to the review page. Judging by the other reviews this is just a bug but could you please fix it
(2025-08-01) it doesnt work
(2025-08-01) Good
(2025-07-30) Fantastic extension! Perfect not just for yt but it also works for every video.
(2025-07-28) It works and that is all I need. :)
(2025-07-26) works, and saves a LOT of time.
(2025-07-26) easy to use and efficient as well

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