Reviews for FrankerFaceZ
FrankerFaceZ by FrankerFaceZ
Review by SovvyC
Rated 3 out of 5
by SovvyC, 4 months agoWhen it works, it's a fantastic add-on to Twitch that provides access to a ton of emotes, customization settings, and tweaks you can use to make your viewing experience better!
With that said, "when it works" is the big caveat. Ever since Mozilla required it to be listed on its Extension store, the app has been going in and out of functionality. Any time Twitch seems to act up, you can directly tie it to FFZ. It could be Twitch updates, Firefox updates, and things outside of the dev's control, but every time it has issues, it really ruins your viewing experience.
Before, it forced the viewing size of the stream to fit onto a 1920x1080 monitor, even though mine is much larger. I couldn't change it without going to fullscreen, which doesn't let you chat. Now, it's resizing the stream to only work with Theater Mode. If you are not viewing the stream in Theater Mode, the volume and play/pause buttons are not visible, a chunk of the stream is not viewable, and all of FFZ's functionality is gone. It took them a couple weeks to fix the first issue, and it may take a similar amount of time for them to fix the current issue. In the meantime, you have to decide whether you want to uninstall FFZ and wait until it's fixed and restore your old settings, or wait until it's fixed and deal with the borked experience in the meantime.
I know the devs are working as hard as they can and you cannot put the blame on them for Twitch/Mozilla doing what they want. I'd still recommend it for the best Twitch viewing experience, but just know it comes with a cost.
With that said, "when it works" is the big caveat. Ever since Mozilla required it to be listed on its Extension store, the app has been going in and out of functionality. Any time Twitch seems to act up, you can directly tie it to FFZ. It could be Twitch updates, Firefox updates, and things outside of the dev's control, but every time it has issues, it really ruins your viewing experience.
Before, it forced the viewing size of the stream to fit onto a 1920x1080 monitor, even though mine is much larger. I couldn't change it without going to fullscreen, which doesn't let you chat. Now, it's resizing the stream to only work with Theater Mode. If you are not viewing the stream in Theater Mode, the volume and play/pause buttons are not visible, a chunk of the stream is not viewable, and all of FFZ's functionality is gone. It took them a couple weeks to fix the first issue, and it may take a similar amount of time for them to fix the current issue. In the meantime, you have to decide whether you want to uninstall FFZ and wait until it's fixed and restore your old settings, or wait until it's fixed and deal with the borked experience in the meantime.
I know the devs are working as hard as they can and you cannot put the blame on them for Twitch/Mozilla doing what they want. I'd still recommend it for the best Twitch viewing experience, but just know it comes with a cost.
152 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19652394, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Halera, 23 days agoIt's a cool extension, but it's a shame the Firefox version takes so long to update.
- Rated 5 out of 5by seychellesreal, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13751670, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Frank Enstein, a month agoUnfortunately the app does not save my settings. As soon as I closed it and opened it again, all the settings I had made were reset again. So this app is pointless for me.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xentha, a month agoStill the best twitch extension I've encountered. - Also if anyone else is not able to see point redeems in chat, you may have to delete your settings profile and make a new one and reapply settings. Be sure to screenshot them first!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Farts_Mcgee, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hugo, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Expmodo, 3 months agoПосредственно работает. Может в моменте отвалится и приходится пере запускать браузер по 2-3 раза, что бы расширение заработало.
Лучше использовать скрипт с сайта, через расширение Greasemonkey или иное - он стабильней работает. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14727294, 3 months agoNo need to wait around for the Firefox update—just use the Greasemonkey userscript version instead!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zumaks, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fl414r, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19471497, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by molly, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Anonymous, 4 months agoOne of the best extensions I use. Twitch is unusable without this extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Escape Reality, 4 months agoThe must-have extension for Twitch users. FFZ gives us many more options than other Twitch extensions and, dispite Mozilla's delays in making updates available, it's worth the wait.
- Rated 5 out of 5by catman1900, 4 months agofirefox needs to get off their lazy butts and approve the latest version of this extension, the current one is out of date and doesn't work and even though it's fixed up stream. FIREFOX needs to make the next move and approve the update!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Alpha, 4 months agoTwitch broke this plugin, it was fixed in version 4.78... current version is 4.79. not too sure what's happening with Firefox but this needs to be pushed faster
- Rated 5 out of 5by Strawberry Clover, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ennsbq, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18201419, 4 months agoA must have addon for using twitch. Without, twitch is unbearable to look at. Only issue is firefox's slow approval of addon changes, gimping fixes to the addon when its inevitably broken by twitch.
- Rated 5 out of 5by ayahanda, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joker2kill, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17833965, 4 months agoExcellent extension, by far the best on Twitch. I'm currently running it thanks to Tampermonkey and the user script from its website, but during the days I couldn’t use it, I really missed it.