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Description from extension meta
Quickly seek Youtube video playback forwards and backwards by either 3 or 15 seconds.
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Quickly seek Youtube video playback forwards and backwards by either 3 or 15 seconds.
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What This Extension Does
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This tiny and efficient extension helps you easily seek forwards and backwards in Youtube™ videos. If you ever watch long videos and want to seek backwards a little bit so you can see something again, but get frustrated trying to drag that tiny slider just the right amount, this extension is for you!
This extension will add keyboard shortcuts which let you quickly seek ahead or back by either 3 or 15 seconds (configurable). Additionally, it can also optionally add new buttons to the player which you can click to seek ahead or back.
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Usage
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1) Load any web page that contains a YT-video
2) Click the video to make it play
3) The extension will automatically detect the video and add the new seek buttons to it
4) To seek forwards or backwards, you can either click the buttons, or use the Keyboard Controls
*Note - like many other extensions, any webpages you loaded before installing the extension must be reloaded before the extension will work.
List of Keycombos
http://rehfeld.us/browser-extensions/controls-for-youtube/keyboard-controls
For example, it's really easy to hold your ctrl key and then press your left arrow key twice to quickly go back 6 seconds!
You can configure how far ahead and back each key takes you via the extension config page. Also, if you don't like the buttons that get added to the player, you can disable some or all of them. To see the config page, click the extension icon on the top-right of your browser, then select "options", just like on any other extension. Alternatively, goto the chrome://extensions url, click the "Details" btn for this extension, then click "Extension Options".
TIP: You can skip through some advertisements by just fast forwarding! Try using the "Seek forward to end" keycombo. You can also rewind the ad, if you like.
TIP2: You can modify the seek duration when you click a seek button using the mouse: ctrl + click will be half the normal duration, shift + click will be double, and shift + ctrl + click will be 5x.
Non-Obvious Feature:
Note that the keyboard controls work properly even when you're on a non-youtube.com website which embeds the YT-video into their webpage. When using keycombos, you don't need to give the video "mouse focus" by clicking on it, which allows you to freely interact with the parent web page without worrying about losing mouse focus due to clicking something else. This can be handy, for example, if you've scrolled to the bottom of the page to read comments, and suddenly wish to rewind or pause the video without having to scroll back to the top - just use the keys. While native YT-videos do have their own keycombos to pause the video (the space bar), it only works on non-youtube.com pages when the video currently has mouse focus. This extension offers its own pause control (Ctrl + SpaceBar) which works without the video needing focus. The same goes for all the keycombos - they all work without needing the player to have focus! The browser tab does need focus, however.
Limitation:
-The GUI buttons can only be added to the player if there's enough width - small players may not be wide enough. If you maximize the player, they should show up, or you can always just use the keyboard controls.
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Legal
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Youtube™ is a registered trademark. This extension was developed independently, by someone who is not related or affiliated with them, without any help or endorsement from them.
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Privacy
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http://rehfeld.us/browser-extensions/controls-for-youtube/privacy-policy
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Changelog
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http://rehfeld.us/browser-extensions/controls-for-youtube/changelog
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-29) Tiny Shoken: Such a simple feature that I struggled to find for so long. Finally, THIS is EXACTLY what I was after, easy to use and simple customizable time skip options. Thank you!
- (2025-05-14) -Krism-: Doesn't really work well with youtube's ctrl+arrow to skip to the next chapter, making this extension pretty useless now If we could disable the "skip to next chapter" function, it would be great
- (2025-05-08) Desiree: I love this extension, don't know how I lived without it! :)
- (2024-10-12) Classy Cube: I really dig the buttons on the YouTube player but I’m not a fan of the shortcut hotkeys (Ctrl + ← or →) taking over the normal function of moving between words in a text field. Thankfully, you have the option to disable those shortcut hotkeys, but they should have used different keys.
- (2024-10-05) Q Public: I like the app but... When using the new controls provided by this extension, and then sliding the mouse up to the progress bar, a red circle with a 45-degree diagonal line (known as the 'no symbol') appears and blocks access to the progress bar. Anyone else having this issue?
- (2024-10-04) a good boy: Goated extension! A must
- (2024-09-02) COW KING (THE COW KING): good app, bug:move mouse to buttons then to progress bar, will make progress bar inaccessible
- (2024-08-21) Luis G. Lopez: espectacular. lo que debería tener youtube por defecto. Pero como no lo tiene, esta extensión es la mejor para eso
- (2024-08-17) KirK Lazarus: Works on normal videos but not working in youtube live streaming. Earlier it was working on both.
- (2024-08-16) 비행기대리운전기사: Exact extension I was looking for!! Theres no way to skip 10 seconds on PC youtube by clicking (like double tab on mobile youtube) Thank you sooooo much!!
- (2024-08-13) allsam18: great
- (2024-08-13) allsam18: great
- (2024-08-13) Josué Fernández Santiago (UltraKProductions): Incredibly useful and very customizable. YouTube broke it recently but the creator published a fix in less than a day after sending him an e-mail 👌
- (2024-08-13) Scott Roberts: I've used this extension for a long time. It's one of my favorite extensions. It's the best of it's type on the ext store. It recently stopped working and the creator fixed it within days! Thanks!
- (2024-08-10) Tom Pitt: Stopped working. Will update to 5 starts when it starts working.
- (2024-08-10) Toby CatVA: Buttons are no longer displaying properly. :-( Controls are non functional by key press either, even after I uninstalled and reinstalled the extension on Brave browser. When it was working this is probably my most used extension. It has worked flawlessly for a long time.
- (2024-08-10) Jon Pham: Its now working now
- (2024-08-09) prashant uchariya: stoped working
- (2024-08-08) Marc Odden: Help! Stopped working.......Is an update in the works?
- (2024-08-08) Don: This suddenly does not work anymore. Please update.
- (2024-08-06) Mark E: Excellent! This is the best extension I use on every video. please keep it here.
- (2024-08-06) Nirmal Gurjar: Was working great till now, but suddenly stopped working, any alternative?
- (2024-07-03) D Quinn: Simple, not overdone and works great...THANKS!!!!
- (2024-05-12) Riaz Ali: Wow. First, I wanted an addon for skip forward/back buttons. Then I wanted one that worked with another addon I use religiously called Quickview. Then I wanted square buttons instead of circular. This is the only addon that allowed all these things, plus you can customize the time lengths. Excellent.
- (2024-03-01) Furkan: Doesn't work for live stream VODs.
- (2024-03-01) Furkan: Doesn't work for live stream VODs.
- (2024-02-27) Rudra Somani: Please add an option to remove the seek animation when we press it because the animation is a bit distracting.
- (2023-12-30) Facundo Kzemin: Works wonders. Nothing to add 10/10.
- (2023-12-02) Echoes Of The Dawn: Literally the best extension, I find myself looking for the skip back button when on other sites now. I would love to see an extension like this made for the Twitch vod player
- (2023-12-02) Echoes Of The Dawn: Literally the best extension, I find myself looking for the skip back button when on other sites now. I would love to see an extension like this made for the Twitch vod player
- (2023-11-09) Brad S: Simply works. Super Simple. Not overly complex. Should be built into YouTube.
- (2023-11-09) Brad S: Simply works. Super Simple. Not overly complex. Should be built into YouTube.
- (2023-10-03) Lazba: Thank you!
- (2023-10-03) Lazba: Thank you!
- (2023-09-23) Whyhrro Derp: Honestly can't use YouTube without this extension
- (2023-09-23) Whyhrro Derp: Honestly can't use YouTube without this extension
- (2023-09-17) Rafeeq Eroth: Excellent Extension. Very helpful for learning videos etc. Couple of suggestions : Can we have a button to restart the video from the beginning. It would be very useful. And option to select which button is bigger like the buttons in the middle are bigger in size by default even if we assign smaller duration to those buttons.
- (2023-09-17) Rafeeq Eroth: Excellent Extension. Very helpful for learning videos etc. Couple of suggestions : Can we have a button to restart the video from the beginning. It would be very useful. And option to select which button is bigger like the buttons in the middle are bigger in size by default even if we assign smaller duration to those buttons.
- (2023-08-14) Anne Tremblay: So simple, so useful. Exactly what I was looking for!!!
- (2023-08-14) Anne Tremblay: So simple, so useful. Exactly what I was looking for!!!
- (2023-03-11) Yigit Velioglu: This is exactly what I want. Thanks.
- (2023-03-11) Yigit Velioglu: This is exactly what I want. Thanks.
- (2022-08-20) Sergi Sanchez: Very Useful, Thank you. is it possible to add -playback speed reproduction button ?
- (2022-08-20) Sergi Sanchez: Very Useful, Thank you. is it possible to add -playback speed reproduction button ?
- (2022-07-06) Gaelion: Very stylish and well integrated. Works great. Thanks!
- (2022-07-06) Gaelion: Very stylish and well integrated. Works great. Thanks!
- (2022-04-25) Shaboogle C: Can also be used to skip ads, or seek and rewind through ads
- (2022-04-25) Shaboogle C: Can also be used to skip ads, or seek and rewind through ads
- (2022-02-20) Michal Baran: Great! but why the shortcut keys are still not configurable after years of waiting? ;)
- (2022-02-20) Michal Baran: Great! but why the shortcut keys are still not configurable after years of waiting? ;)