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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

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
Anonymous
add a feature where music plays at normal speed
Anonymous
amazing.
Anonymous
The extension works perfectly, but there's a small problem, the key-binds also work on YT music, so whenever I type in the searchbar, it responds to that too. I hope the dev's can fix it. Otherwise, the extension is fantastic.
Anonymous
good work
Anonymous
it work
Anonymous
will test
Anonymous
i will do a test
Anonymous
Great after it's becoming a feature for YouTube Premium subscribers.
Anonymous
good!
Anonymous
working! tysm :)
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
GREAT!!!!
Anonymous
" osm " extension no premium subscription needed you can increase speed as you want
Anonymous
Good app. Just constantly gets Unchecked runtime.lastError: The message port closed before a response was received. error on every page. Console gets bit annoying
Anonymous
Legend
Anonymous
ok
Anonymous
absolute life saver, thanks a lot for making it for free ;)
Anonymous
Works great, love this extension. Would 100% recommendthis extension over others. one nitpick is that the extension stands out on YouTube and looks kinda ugly.
Anonymous
awful
Anonymous
bad
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
Works as advertised, no BS
Anonymous
So convenient (vs Gear icon) and works in webpages with embedded videos too!
Anonymous
works perfectly fine. many thanks!
Anonymous
ok
Anonymous
THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH, yt is so greedy for taking this feature away
Anonymous
I dont know if to consider this a feature or a bug, but apparently, this extension can also control the speed of css animations on any website.
Anonymous
good
Anonymous
many thanks
Anonymous
This was great! It helped me a lot cus i cant change my youtube speed anymore so yeah :D
Anonymous
Great extension
Anonymous
effortless experience
Anonymous
thank you so much
Anonymous
thank you so much! it works! even though YT has now made even 2x speed a premium function 🙄 the addon helps take that back 😋
Anonymous
ok
Anonymous
just great
Anonymous
It works ! Thank u !
Anonymous
decent
Anonymous
simple and best out there , go for it
Anonymous
it works great
Anonymous
best for students for lecuture
Anonymous
good