Reviews for Substital
Substital by Gaëtan Covelli
Response by Gaëtan Covelli
Developer response
posted 3 years agoHey! No creepy stuff under the hood :) Substital for Firefox was manually reviewed multiple times by persons from the Mozilla Firefox Add-ons team. It's a pre-requisite to be published here in the store. If there would be creepy stuff under the hood, it would not be published.
About the permissions, we're happy to clear that out for you. The other extension you mentioned is different in many ways. It does not work the same way as Substital and does not have the features that Substital provides. (as you said, it's not that polished). No, Substital cannot work with only the activeTab permission. The reasons is that we inject elements in the page that need broader permissions to be able to work, like for example the area where users can search for subtitles.
To be noted, other popular extensions such as AdBlock or Grammarly also use broader permissions such as "Access your data for all websites".
Hope that helps! :) We plan to add soon a better detailed description why these permissions are needed. Thanks for your feedback!
About the permissions, we're happy to clear that out for you. The other extension you mentioned is different in many ways. It does not work the same way as Substital and does not have the features that Substital provides. (as you said, it's not that polished). No, Substital cannot work with only the activeTab permission. The reasons is that we inject elements in the page that need broader permissions to be able to work, like for example the area where users can search for subtitles.
To be noted, other popular extensions such as AdBlock or Grammarly also use broader permissions such as "Access your data for all websites".
Hope that helps! :) We plan to add soon a better detailed description why these permissions are needed. Thanks for your feedback!
116 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by fiti25, 9 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Love_Suwako, 24 days agoSubtitle synchronization sucks... Sync is off by more than 3 seconds.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18688026, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by FullMetalWitch, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by no, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by LucysFur, 3 months agoThis application is extremely useful. Worked instantly and allowed me to watch a Hindu movie that didn't have English subtitles available.
5/5 stars. Would recommend. I don't know that I'll need it again any time soon; but it fills such a niche need that I'd recommend it to anyone. - Rated 5 out of 5by zihad, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Homar H, 4 months agoThis add-on was exactly what I was looking for, thank you!
There's one detail I noticed while using it: while the video can play perfectly fine and the subtitles are synced and visible, the progress bar doesn't seem to be advancing at all, it gets stuck in the beginning. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18457109, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Łukasz, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17945762, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15798084, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DogancanYr, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Osmanthus, 10 months agoVery convenient to lookup or upload subtitles, good ability to customize the look of the subtitles, great delay options
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17222309, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ryan Uchiha, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14088276, a year agoThe best add-on, I highly recommend it. Many thanks to the developer, keep up the good work!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 17448020, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Rafael Cordeiro, a year agoIt was very good, but since a few weeks ago, it started asking to become a VIP member of opensubtitles, and it wont load any subtitles at all. Devs, can you fix this?
- Rated 4 out of 5by yardsards, a year agoExtremely useful add-on. An absolute life-saver for me as a disabled person. However, the search for subtitles feature no longer works, just asks to become a VIP member of opensubtitles. Perhaps find a different provider to source your subtitles from?
- Rated 5 out of 5by AWAT-IR, a year agothaaaaaanks your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much
- Rated 5 out of 5by vimehemii, a year agoI can't thank you enough. Your add-on has helped me breach the language barrier in my long distance relationship and thanks to you, we can enjoy all kinds of movies together, whether in English, Japanese or any other language. As Japanese-subbed movies and TV shows are incredibly hard to find online, your add-on is the only way I can host movie nights without having to download each video I want to stream. Thank you so much for making my life easier. Lots of love and happy holidays!