Reviews for Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv by Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
115 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by GKFC, 5 years agoOver the past week or so I've noticed FF tabs crashing a lot more. If I refresh the tab in question the stream will come back, but opening another stream in another tab doesn't seem to activate the addon again. I have to close FF entirely and restart for it to work properly. Which isn't ideal.
Edit: Thanks for the response. Does that bug also account for the addon saying that the "Broadcast ended" for streams that are actually live? Or it that something different.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThis is a Firefox 80 bug. I have notified the Firefox developers of this problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663998 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16272831, 5 years agoWonderful app. Fixes buffering issues I had when the chat goes wild, and the audio never becomes distorted. Very clean player. However, it's buggy. It crashes often if I leave it running when a stream ends.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThis is a Firefox 80 bug. I have notified the Firefox developers of this problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663998 - Rated 4 out of 5by dpell23_, 5 years agoI can't get my latency below 5-6 seconds even with the best settings available, while Normal Twitch Player has a 1 to 2 seconds delay in low latency mode.
Other than that, the extension is very good. Highly recommended if you have a low-end system because the CPU and RAM usage will be very low compared to normal Twitch Player. - Rated 4 out of 5by MDX, 5 years agoCertainly helps with CPU but I feel there's one thing missing, picture in picture support. Is this something that can be added?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoPress the combination Ctrl + Shift + ] or Ctrl + Shift + } on the keyboard.
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/about-picture-picture-firefox - Rated 4 out of 5by Dyxati, 5 years agoIt's pretty good and doesn't stutter or gets stuck on loading, but chat doesn't work it just says "Failed to load modules" since two months at least.
- Rated 4 out of 5by applephx, 5 years agoThis extension is amazing. Thank you!
Please note, the past couple days the extension has not been showing up at the top of the twitch page. - Rated 4 out of 5by user9969328, 5 years agoI wish Twitch itself would implement an audio-only stream... Thanks for this addon!
Edit (July 21th, 2025): Downrating to 4 stars; I'm not entirely sure what encrypted streams mean here, shouldn't be all streams encrypted (like DRM-style), or is this some extra encryption on top of the usual HTTPS-Encryption thing? Those streams don't work in this addon. Some clarification would be nice. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14569974, 5 years agoWindows for Whispers don't open correctly, and the sidebar on the left for live channels and online friends doesn't appear. Other than that, this is a very helpful add-on; I can actually *watch* streams instead of getting a mere slideshow.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15579359, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12776503, 6 years agoGot problems on Firefox since their last update (72.0.1 (64 bits)). There is a green screen showing
- Rated 4 out of 5by themineraria, 6 years agoWhat a wonderful add-on! Would love the VOD support 'cause when I left click on the button when watching one, sadly nothing happens.. Otherwise 👏👏
(I'm on Firefox 70.0.1) - Rated 4 out of 5by nipunjamewar, 6 years agoOverall a very good add-on. 4 stars because of the white flash that occurs whenever starting any stream, it is kinda annoying and would give 5 star if it gets fixed.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13564041, 6 years agoAmazing, but recently having troubles with the chat, asks to login every time i chat and pops up a second window to login but doesnt work????
- Rated 4 out of 5by wontcachme, 6 years agoGood add-on. Works better then the normal twitch website for me.
Only problem is that since a few weeks the chat doesn't work. It keeps asking me te login and when i do nothing happens. So i either have to not chat or switch to normal website (which keeps switching the quality settings...) - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15047343, 6 years ago**I've been using this addon for years now and I still hold it as one the best addons on Firefox. However! I'm dropping it down to 4 stars after all these years b/c it's crazy that we STILL cannot follow raids. That really needs to be added**
This extension is one of the most important plugins I run. The ability to resize the playing window is absolutely game changing. All the customization options are extremely helpful. I would LOVE something like this for Youtube... hint hint - Rated 4 out of 5by K-Bone, 6 years agoLove the add on, would love for this to support BetterTwitchTV add on as well.
EDIT: Like SPF before me, for some reason this extension will load the stream player itself but won't load the chat in Firefox. But I did notice that with this extension, chat loads without a problem in a Firefox fork like Comodo IceDragon. - Rated 4 out of 5by Akatsuki, 6 years agoIt's pretty great, just set it up by yourself, it's more advanced then the default one of course.
But how to play archived streams? I tried adding this after ext. adress -> "player.html?videos=421388813" but of course that didn't help. Any way how to play archives? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13192761, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Yuio, 7 years agoIt's great for live videos but I wish it could work on VODs as well.
- Rated 4 out of 5by FelixWang, 7 years agoWill this exrtntion support low lentacy?
Minuum lentacy is about 6s for now. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13921546, 7 years agoIt works pretty well. There is more of a delay with streams but, it's well worth it to not see the same stupid ad again & again. I'm sure there's room for improvement but, I'm liking it.
- Rated 4 out of 5by NeroXAlias5, 7 years agoIt's working perfectly for streaming only, but NOT for the twitch video... even whit a 1gb fiber keep buffering every 10 sec
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14346382, 7 years agoLove the addon, kills forced ads. If only the chat window worked... tried reinstalling but still the same problem, white chat window and nothing else...
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alex de Lima, 7 years agoVery good player for when the streamer is broadcasting online.
I just have one problem, is there a way to activate the player when I just want to watch an video already stored on Twitch?
it only shows as the default one which is heavy and slow.