Reviews for FastStream Video Player
FastStream Video Player by Andrew S
Review by Waifu Connoisseur
Rated 5 out of 5
by Waifu Connoisseur, 9 months agoI was having trouble consistently streaming anime on my go-to anime website. The recent influx of traffic, along with the servers it used (on most websites) has said servers even more strained. Pretty much across the board on all anime streaming websites, it was looking bleak for me, and others were sharing this experience.
Tbh, I did not think this add-on would do much, but holt-moly it is a complete and utter game changer! Not only did it boost the buffering speed more than 10x over, it actually SHOWS the 'true' amount that has been buffered on the bar, like videos used to.
Years ago, buffering bars used to show the 'true' progress that had been made on the progress bar of whatever you were viewing (like a darker grey bar that proceeds past the, what is usually, red progress bar). However, as of recent years, this stopped functioning like it used to.
It would show the progress by about a minute, then halt, whether it was buffering further, or not.
This extention breathes new life into streaming, and I have no idea how it is not more popular. It shows the 'true' progress of the buffering on the 'play'/'progress' bar, and it is WAY faster.
A few tips I found out is that you can hide the progress bar so it isn't always there by triple-clicking the mouse on the window of what you are streaming. Another is that it is set to save & download what you are streaming into local storage. If you don't want storage being clogged up by numerous videos, turn this off in setting using the cog wheel in the player.
Finally, when you are wtahcing/streaming a video, this may seem obvious, but make sure to go into your extension list and turn on this extension, it'll be obvious when you do as the UI completely changes.
This is a full 5/5 stars from me, I legit made this account to review this add-on. Not only does it load videos uber-fast, but it has a vast amount of settings you can change, so it's exactly to your liking. I love all of the hot-key options. I have only just got this, so there are likely more wonderful additions to this add-on, but I simply haven't discovered them yet.
There is literally no reason not to get this as far as my logic goes, no more stagnant buffering on anime streaming websites, it's now a thing of the past. Of course, I'll update this review if anything changes.
The stagnant buffering was especially awful today, hence why I searched for something just like this.I saw "6x streaming speed" and took it with a grain of salt, but it exceeded my expectations. Truly a wonderful add-on. Kudos to the developers, and thank you for enhancing my straming experience online! :) 10/10!!! I must make a post and share this with others!
Tbh, I did not think this add-on would do much, but holt-moly it is a complete and utter game changer! Not only did it boost the buffering speed more than 10x over, it actually SHOWS the 'true' amount that has been buffered on the bar, like videos used to.
Years ago, buffering bars used to show the 'true' progress that had been made on the progress bar of whatever you were viewing (like a darker grey bar that proceeds past the, what is usually, red progress bar). However, as of recent years, this stopped functioning like it used to.
It would show the progress by about a minute, then halt, whether it was buffering further, or not.
This extention breathes new life into streaming, and I have no idea how it is not more popular. It shows the 'true' progress of the buffering on the 'play'/'progress' bar, and it is WAY faster.
A few tips I found out is that you can hide the progress bar so it isn't always there by triple-clicking the mouse on the window of what you are streaming. Another is that it is set to save & download what you are streaming into local storage. If you don't want storage being clogged up by numerous videos, turn this off in setting using the cog wheel in the player.
Finally, when you are wtahcing/streaming a video, this may seem obvious, but make sure to go into your extension list and turn on this extension, it'll be obvious when you do as the UI completely changes.
This is a full 5/5 stars from me, I legit made this account to review this add-on. Not only does it load videos uber-fast, but it has a vast amount of settings you can change, so it's exactly to your liking. I love all of the hot-key options. I have only just got this, so there are likely more wonderful additions to this add-on, but I simply haven't discovered them yet.
There is literally no reason not to get this as far as my logic goes, no more stagnant buffering on anime streaming websites, it's now a thing of the past. Of course, I'll update this review if anything changes.
The stagnant buffering was especially awful today, hence why I searched for something just like this.I saw "6x streaming speed" and took it with a grain of salt, but it exceeded my expectations. Truly a wonderful add-on. Kudos to the developers, and thank you for enhancing my straming experience online! :) 10/10!!! I must make a post and share this with others!
92 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by TELLALL4ALL, a day agoB.S. Doesn't work period. More garbage from github your home for crippleware garbage software. crap mozilla cannot put forth login page and stalls. How do these dummies get jobs in hi-tech anyways?wasting users time.
- Rated 1 out of 5by HonestReviews, 2 days ago7-5-25
doesn't work. bunch of useless icons that do nothing. no trouble shooting tips more junkware addons. Doesnt do ANYTHING it CLAIMS to do. More Gitware crap. - Rated 4 out of 5by Craig, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by korimraw, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ExceptionFatale, a month agoThis is my first review for an extension, and it’s well-deserved—5 stars!
I was trying to archive a TikTok video from a large creator who attempted to hide it during a scandal. No other creators reposted it, so I desperately checked the Wayback Machine and found a single saved instance. However, the video link provided by the Wayback Machine includes a WebArchive.org header, which complicates downloading due to all the handshaking going on between Wayback Machine and TikTok in the background.
When I tried using my go-to downloader, yt-dlp and various extensions, I kept getting the same "No video at the link provider" error messages (the downloaders don't have the javascript running all the behind the scenes authorizations that need to occur). After too many failed attempts, I resorted to screen recording the video. Just when I thought I’d have to settle for that, I discovered your extension and figured it couldn't hurt to try once more. Within 3 minutes, I successfully downloaded the video without any issues!
I’m thrilled to have archived this video instead of relying on a screen capture. Thank you for creating such a helpful tool! One tiny suggestion: the downloaded video file size was surprising (nearly a gig) for a 3 minute TikTok. I'm still overjoyed with the extension, but maybe a different codec is in order to reduce file size bloat :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Carlos Martins, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Encodes, a month agoReally helpful when YouTube is trying to block me from using uBlock, the videos just won't load. Now after using FastStream, the videos load, just what I was looking for.
- Rated 4 out of 5by chris, a month agoGreat but would love the option to disable shortcuts/key bindings all together.
- Rated 5 out of 5by TessellatedGuy, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Takezo, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Foxtrot, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 10238867, 3 months agoCool add-on for enhance online video playback. I'd love to see "process video frame-by-frame (both forward & previous ways)" feature implemented in the future.
- Rated 5 out of 5by DeAndre Queary, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18463091, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13681391, 3 months agoUI design is awful. More awful than default firefox cartoonish video player for toddlers. I Can't even find the pip button
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18146778, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by IcedHarley, 3 months agoThis thing is amazing I need it to be on Android extensions.
- Rated 5 out of 5by meshmeshumeshu, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17308434, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by StellaNova, 3 months agoPERFECT addon! THANK YOU Andrew!!! Note to the author: I noticed today that FS no longer works on YT.
But on the FS website I discovered your reply to a user (who discovered the same problem): "Google changed some code. a fix is underway."
SUPER, if you solve the current problem, THANK YOU!
Always be one step ahead of Google! :-