Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]
Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython
135 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by HyprDmg, 7 months agoHulu seems to not load video unless this is disabled, but otherwise has been nice to use when volume sliders are missing from a site.
- Rated 2 out of 5by trevorgrease, 7 months agoWould be a great addon if it werent for the fact it loves to change volumes randomly. On youtube, sometimes it will just decide to blow out my eardrums OR go insanely quiet to where i can barely hear it, and nothing prompts this happening. The slider showing how much its boosting/lowering the volume doesnt change at all either, but it definitely gets way louder/quieter than i can even make it go. Hope this gets fixed soon because I like this addon
Developer response
posted 25 days agoThe volume should not be able to move on its own, but when the popup.htm is opened, the slider is highlighted. So if you're in windows for example and have a controller plugged in, it interacts with the slider so controller drift can be an issue in that case. But otherwise I asusme your issue is not the extension itself but the videos you're watchin/diferent scenes being diferent volume. In which case you'd want a normalizer. But I don't think there's a way to do it in chromium rather you should use third party application for example I have a python one in progress which is published in my github for windows.... - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 10278091, 7 months agoit's awesome on the sites it works on. Unfortunately not Amazon Music.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Aaron, 7 months agoGarbage extension. Muted a whole bunch of sites randomly after they already worked while the extension was installed.
Developer response
posted a month agoIt works but some sites have CSP rules that block it from initializing/breaks audio. Add those sites to the blocklist in the settings. More and more sites have been adding CSP rules to block extension manipulation to fight off exploits and bots... - Rated 4 out of 5by Mark, 8 months agoIt works well, one minor, one major flaw, would be a 5 star otherwise...
Minor flaw : could boost volume by more than 32db (I'm hard of hearing).
Major flaw : Does NOT keep setting. Keep setting it at +32, as soon as I navigate to another page, or even refresh the page, it forgets the setting and goes back to 0.
Please allow it to be kept at the user setting. Developer response
posted a month agoIt works but some sites have CSP rules that block it from initializing/breaks audio. Add those sites to the blocklist in the settings. More and more sites have been adding CSP rules to block extension manipulation to fight off exploits and bots...- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18515589, 9 months agoSimple UI and works. I mostly use volume controls to LOWER the volumes. Every other extension is for raising the volumes so their UI for lowering the volume is robust and just mostly do intervals of 10 and sometimes having it that just 10 is still too high. So this extension fills all my needs and wants. Great work!
- Rated 3 out of 5by mtndewbajablast, 9 months agoIt works well but it doesn't remember the volume when reloading/exiting a site. I don't know if that's even possible but it would make this extension legendary status. It breaks the audio on everynoise.com, which was the reason I needed the extension. edit: also doesn't work on soundcloud.com
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17292966, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Eric, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by luccajan, 10 months agoGreat add-on, now Firefox won't blast my ears out every time a new song plays!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18463746, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13897860, 10 months agoworks well. But recently the volume bar is some how offset to the left.
- Rated 5 out of 5by vBanshee, 10 months agoWorks well.
To the people having problems, if your extensions or browser(in my case librewolf) blocks WebGL it won't work. Simply enabling WebGL fixes the issue. - Rated 5 out of 5by ZA, a year agoWorks straight out of the box flawlessly. Nice to see that it's FOSS and I hope it stays that way.
Hats off to the dev for his work, you're awesome! Also, the fact it runs on a "visit" basis makes trusting it even easier. Didn't have to enable the optional option. - Rated 3 out of 5by BillyCool, a year agoThe extension works well...most of the time. Occasionally and at random, while active, the volume just boosts to what feels like a million percent, causes audio to be distorted and extremely and uncomfortably loud. After a few seconds it returns to normal. I lived up with it for a bit, I can't use it anymore.
Developer response
posted a year agoThis shouldn't be an issue with the plugin.
Not sure why you're having that issue, do you have anything else interacting with audio / firefox?
For convenience upon clicking, the slider is in focus, perhaps you have a device where the direction is locking to the right? Like in windows if you have an xbox controller plugged in with joystick drift. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18377486, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18357169, a year agoHi Chaython, thanks for making an open source and slim volume control add-on. it is needed. i agree, the other one on Firefox is junk! i detest apps and etc. that harm us under the guise of offering something useful.
But i can't get it to work. On one site (movies7.to), it was useless. On another (archive.org), it muted the volume and i couldnt seem to re-tune it. i figure on another, it will also be a bother to rather than imrpovement of my experience...
I see that this is manifeset (aka "version?") 3. And that it is not necessary to give the permission for access to all websites' information?
what about the info on the single website upon which we apply the volume control add-on. could you provide a statement about what website info this extension searches for / analyzes, and how it uses this information? is it linked to our identities? could it be used for nefarious purposes if in the wrong hands? etc.
thanks again. i would ilke to use it.Developer response
posted a year agoAs for site compatibility, there's issues where CDN (content delivery network) has strict CSP.
CSP denies any extension from accessing the hosted resource.
The extra permission is necessary to see iframes (content loaded from a different site in a frame within the current site).
You can view the code, it doesn't see any information it just accesses the html audio/video and doesn't have any outgoing code, it just accesses the tab checks for audio then uses a js to check iframes for audio.
I've been trying to figure a way for firefox to not load the extension on certain sites but its not working it has only worked within chromium.... So site compatibility has been getting worse. - Rated 5 out of 5by kadjy, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SummerJoke, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Avalon of Babylon, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dav, a year agoIt's stopped working completely. Makes no adjustments to volume and prevents any audio playing on several sites. Tried the permissions thing suggested in the latest change notes, but still won't work so I had to uninstall it.
EDIT: There is no visible means to reply directly. No sound on YouTube or Imgur. Only other plugins are Malwayre Bytes, Surfsharf VPN, LastPass and Gramerly.Developer response
posted a year agoDid you have any other extensions installed? What websites didn't work?