Fixes and a lighter footprint.
- Boosted tabs keep their settings through updates.
- With the Limiter on, page audio always plays through it, so going past 100% no longer colors the sound.
- A playlist that moves to a server without CORS keeps playing.
- The tab icon dot comes back when a site changes its icon.
- Web pages can no longer fake VolMax's internal messages.
- Popup fixes: Undo after Reset, keyboard focus, profile import and selection.
- Less work on pages, in the background and while you drag a slider.

The limiter is now an effect you can turn on and off, and it starts off. It kept loud boosts from distorting, but it could make music sound strange. Turn on Limiter under Effects to use it.

Tabs that played sound before the update ask for a reload, so the new setting applies there too.

The help page's What's new section now describes this version.

The limiter is now an effect you can turn on and off, and it starts off. It kept loud boosts from distorting, but it could make music sound strange. Turn on Limiter under Effects to use it.

Tabs that played sound before the update ask for a reload, so the new setting applies there too.

New
- Feedback and help menu next to the settings button: report a bug, suggest a feature, email the developer or open help. Nothing is sent until you send it.
- Help page that explains every control and effect, in your browser's language.
- Settings lists your pinned sites with their volume. Unpin a site right from the list.
- A one-time card asks for a rating after 7 days of use.
- When VolMax is removed, a page asks what went wrong. It only receives the VolMax version and browser name.

Changed
- A reload plays at your saved volume and mute sooner.
- After an update, tabs whose volume or effects you changed keep those settings.
- The popup shows at most one prompt at a time.
- Auto Balance's tooltip and help say when it acts: only when one side stays at least 2 dB louder.

Fixed
- Media a page builds from HTML or copies, and plays without adding it to the page, follows VolMax's volume and mute.
- A copy of boosted media keeps its own volume instead of playing quieter.
- Media inside copied web components follows VolMax's volume and mute.

Sound fixes and a cleaner icon.
- Effect toggles and balance changes no longer click.
- In Firefox, boosting, EQ and Night mode no longer dull bright sound or make loud music quieter.
- Web Audio games and players no longer crackle when you lower a boost, and keep all surround channels.
- Live streams keep their boost when the page swaps the audio track.
- A video's own volume controls no longer get past VolMax mute or its volume limit.
- After an update, open tabs follow the popup instead of keeping the old boost.
- A touchpad swipe over a slider no longer jumps the volume to 1000%.
- Profiles no longer save mute. Closing the popup can't erase profiles saved in another window.
- A cleaner icon.

What's new since 3.0.1:
- Boosts above 100% use a limiter instead of clipping. Every step up to 1000% is louder.
- Voice boost makes speech clearer over music and effects.
- Normalize evens out loudness. Quiet videos get louder and loud ones quieter.
- Night mode lifts quiet speech and softens loud sounds.
- A "Limiting" hint by the volume number shows when more boost adds little.
- The EQ curve shows the real sound of the six bands.
- The volume slider gives 0-100% the first half of the track.
- Audio from other sites that allow it (CORS) can now go above 100%.
- The popup tells you when audio went silent and offers a reload.
- Games and web players no longer clip when boosted.
- Many fixes for hotkeys, profiles, copied media and pages with stuck frames.

A big update since 1.7.1: a redesigned popup and a rebuilt sound engine.

New
• Live EQ curve, one-click effect chips, and a settings panel.
• Volume step: 1%, 5%, 10%, 25%, or 50% for the slider, mouse wheel, arrow keys, and shortcuts.
• Site memory: pin a site to start every visit there with your settings.
• Other tabs: switch to, mute, or reset any tab that VolMax changes.
• Works on more sites: players in shadow DOM and embedded frames, live streams, and browser games.
• The popup is available in 44 languages.
• New icon.

Changed
• The popup opens with the tab's real settings. It no longer shows 100% first.
• Lighter on every page: frames without audio or video never connect to VolMax.
• Paused pages use almost no CPU: the audio engine sleeps 30 seconds after playback stops.

Removed
• Party mode.

Fixed
• Many cases where boosted audio went silent, including live streams and audio from other sites.
• Memory leaks with detached audio players and live streams.

Fixes volume issues on YouTube and other sites that run their own audio pipeline:

• At default settings (100%, no effects) VolMax now stays out of the way, so the site's own volume slider continues to work normally.
• When you open the popup, the slider syncs to the page's current volume, so any drag is relative to the real audio level instead of a stale 100% default.
• Volume and mute changes ramp smoothly over 50ms, removing clicks and the loud jump that could happen when the extension first engaged.
• Fixed a long-standing bug where captured audio played quieter than the page had set (the extension's gain and the native volume were both scaling the signal).