Custom Video Speed for YouTube™ v9.0.0

This version adds the option to check for music videos when on YouTube. If the video playing is from a "Music Channel" (has a music note next to the channel name) the extension can detect that and then set the speed back to 1.

This is off by default but can be enabled in the option page. The method for detection is a bit finicky and therefore could break in the future unexpectedly; if that happens, I will work to fix it quickly

What's Changed

• Music check working by @elunico in #19

Full Changelog: 8.0.0...9.0.0

Custom Video Speed for YouTube™ v8.0.0

Updated name to comply with Google's trademark rules.

Version 8.0.0 is the Manifest v3 version of this extension. Firefox still doesn't have wide support for v3 so only the Chrome version is using it as of this release. The Firefox version is therefore still 7.1.0.

Furthermore, this release removes the deprecated chrome.extension.sendMessage API from both Chrome and Firefox

The 7.1.0 release of Firefox which is contained in this release, also fixes an issue where options could not be saved

Custom YouTube Speed 7.0.0

Thanks to the suggestion of @Thomas131 the extension will now ignore your hot keys when a text field is active. The old functionality can be restored if—for some reason—you liked that in the options page.

See the store listing for full release details.

Custom YouTube Speed 6.1.0

Added a fix by @jclaveau to enable extension use in embedded YouTube videos.

No other changes were made, see the 6.0.0 release for information about what changed in 6.0.0

Custom YouTube Speed 6.0.0

Reworked the way the options page interacts with key events to allow default behavior that is more similar to 5.1.0 and to stop using keyCode and replacing it with key

Custom YouTube Speed 5.2.0

5.2.0 UPDATE!

NEW FEATURE: Change the keyboard shortcuts for the app! You can now change the keys that control the extension. Below (in the description) you can see the default keys used to control the extension. You can use the new options page to change which keys do what. There is also (though there has been for a while) the option to disable keyboard controls entirely if you prefer.

If you choose not to interact with the options page or change any of the default key combinations, the extension will continue to function as it always did

Please note that this release when submitted for approval on March 5, 2021. It may be several days to weeks before Google approves and pushes the update out to users of the extension.

Custom YouTube Speed

This update has all of your favorite features of the last update PLUS now you can change the values of the buttons in the extension to whatever value you want so you have easy access to your favorite speed settings.

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This extension lets you change the speed of YouTube videos in a more granular way than the default options in the player. The player on YouTube let's you change the speed to 0.25x, 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, and 2.0x the normal speed. This extension lets you change the speed of playback to between 0.1x to 8.0x normal speed by steps of 1.0, 0.5, 0.1, or 0.05.

Once you find a speed you like, you can also save it as the default speed which all YouTube videos will play at when opening.

You can also program up to 7 "preset speeds" that allow you to simply click a button and set the speed of the YouTube video to your stored preset.

By default this extension adds a the ability to control the speed of a YouTube video and some playback with keyboard shortcuts.

The '+' and '-' keys to change the speed by 0.1 and to the '*' and '/' keys change the speed in increments of 1.0.

If you hold shift while pressing these, '+' and '-' move in steps of 0.05 and '*' and '/' move in steps of 0.5.

It also assigns '`' to reset the speed to 1.0x normal speed.

Finally, it uses '[' and ']' to move through the video in time steps proportional to the speed of the video, rather than in increments of 5 or 10 seconds.

These shortcuts can be disabled on demand if you prefer not to have them and can be re-enabled at any time

I made this extension for fun and because it really made my YouTube experience better. I published it because I thought it might be useful for other people as well. I cannot promise every single YouTube page and video will work perfectly with this extension. YouTube has a lot of places like gaming, educational playlists, livestreams, etc.

This extension is open source on GitHub (see website) link, and I am open to suggestions, issues, and fixes but I cannot make any promises about what I will do with those things if i receive them.

Patched a number format and grave key issue

The grave key was not setting the speed correctly, causing the video to be put at 1.0x speed briefly and then reset to the previous speed. This was patched. Also when saving a speed results like 2.3000000000003 where common, and now there is number formatting so that does not happen

Fixed Ad Stops

Fixed a bug where ads can disrupt the video playback rate setting. The extension continuously checks to make sure the playback rate stays on the desired setting when a video is playing, preventing ads from resetting the speed to when the video resumes

Firefox support, turn off key events, directory changes

This release added a Firefox extension. Aside from that it introduced the ability to disable the key listener that lets +, -, *, and / affect speed as well as enter for pause [ and ] for navigation and 'backtick' for speed reset. The folder structure is different but since the paths exist in manifest.json anyway and the entire extension folder was just moved to a subdirectory nothing was removed and nothing was broken