Reviews for UltraWideo
UltraWideo by dvlden
Review by Firefox user 12670179
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 12670179, 5 years ago*Second edit* Issue seems resolved as of early April 2020. No idea what changed and I don't care hehe. Back to a 5/5 for me. *edit*
This add on is great, but it has a very annoying flaw. It randomly stop working (with some frequency), forcing me to go into the addon configuration and disable/re-enable it to get it to work again. It does exactly what it says it will do, which is awesome, but this erratic behaviour keeps it a 3/5 for me.
*first edit* I can't figure out how to reply, so I'll edit here. Interference may be coming from one of two add-ons I have: 1) uBlock Origin and 2) Video Background Play Fix. Of the two, background play seems more likely, but who knows. Unfortunately, I need those add-ons more than this one, so I'll just live with enabling / disabling for now. Also, I just assumed this was a Firefox for Android reporting / reviewing system, but it seems it isn't. Because I didn't mention it before, I'm running Android 9 on a Samsung A8 (2018). *edit*
This add on is great, but it has a very annoying flaw. It randomly stop working (with some frequency), forcing me to go into the addon configuration and disable/re-enable it to get it to work again. It does exactly what it says it will do, which is awesome, but this erratic behaviour keeps it a 3/5 for me.
*first edit* I can't figure out how to reply, so I'll edit here. Interference may be coming from one of two add-ons I have: 1) uBlock Origin and 2) Video Background Play Fix. Of the two, background play seems more likely, but who knows. Unfortunately, I need those add-ons more than this one, so I'll just live with enabling / disabling for now. Also, I just assumed this was a Firefox for Android reporting / reviewing system, but it seems it isn't. Because I didn't mention it before, I'm running Android 9 on a Samsung A8 (2018). *edit*
Developer response
posted 5 years agoI wish if I could reproduce this so that I can fix it. Maybe you can record a video snippet and share a link as a reply so that I can take a look. Maybe another extension is interfering?
P.S. This extension has 100% test coverage and all tests are passing. Maybe I'm missing something?
P.S. This extension has 100% test coverage and all tests are passing. Maybe I'm missing something?
192 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lauren, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DogancanYr, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by cmg2100ff, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18762374, 3 months agoti amo, estensione migliore al mondo per monitor ultra wide
- Rated 5 out of 5by Werfire, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by malihide, 6 months agoWonderful addon for those of us with a secondary or primary CRT monitor, since a lot of people forget to encode youtube uploads in 4:3 even if they contain no data outside that resolution.
My only request would be to allow it on a per-tab basis or restrict it to certain aspect ratios, since my primary monitor is ultrawide and I'd have to disable it manually every time I wanted to switch monitors. It looks like that's a work in progress for the pro version, but I'm not sure. Excellent addon nonetheless. It works instantly and flawlessly. - Rated 5 out of 5by ykjoy, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lifenight, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gavran_srb, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheInfidel, 7 months agoIve been using Ultrawidify for long, but it has major performance issues with 4k 60fps ultrawide (on very powerful hardware you will have 1% frame drops with it enabled). This extension is far slicker, lower footprint, does not cause ANY issues with the same footage, and it offers a very convenient way of adapting a quite troubled aspect ratio of superultrawide 5120x1440 32:9 to the needs of the user. It must be said that 5120x1440 32:9 is basically a failed concept of aspect ratio implementation on a monitor that is supposed to play content NOT natively made in that same format. It will NEVER work properly fullscreen without cropping or distortion. This resolution should have received a 32:10 monitor solution. Sadly cheaping out on the panel size made it a sad affair for scaling video content. The solution for me is to set X to 0:9 and Y 1.3 in stretch mode.This will have small horizontal black bars but they are a acceptable trade off , minimal cropping the content,and have a natural viewing experience with no distortion.
Alternatively setting it to NORMAL with X at 1.9 and Y at 1 will not crop anything, while having minimal black bars vertically.
Conclusion. No software solution can provide the perfect 32:9 5120x1440 experience. It is inherently a unbypassable hardware problem to display content not natively provided in that format. A video game that offers the resolution settings does this. A video not recorded in that same format can not, no upscaling or stretching can remedy this to perfection.
What i do not like is the paywall for pro features, at least name a price and the added functionality in your UI.Developer response
posted 7 months agoAppreciate the thorough review, TheInfidel.
Duly noted, regarding the paywall. As you may conclude from that, I am not really pushing people to upgrade to Pro. It's more of a support the development - type of thing.
Aside, I did not want to bloat the extension size by adding a bunch of text into the Popup window. At some point, I might describe it a bit better and have a page dedicated to the features and pricing, before authentication lock. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16128282, 8 months agoThank you for this extension! I can watch full screen on my 4:3 TV
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andre Luiz, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 1nikolas, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jsevenzero, 8 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Classy Car, 8 months agoWorks fine but begs for a review every time you update with no way to disable it.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoNoted! Thanks for the review. In the latest update I have disabled update notifications.
That is, until I think of a good solution where everyone will be satisfied. A way to toggle update notifications on/off, somewhere outside of the popup I assume. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hereiam, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13086535, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by alexnoheda, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by XTENDER, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ravi Teja, 8 months ago