Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]
Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython
122 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by SmithM, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Guilherme Rosa, a year agoafter giving permission to access the data on visited websites it's working fine. Simple but great extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by DooMWhite, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17167318, a year agoGenerally pretty good, doesn't seem to work on https://www.songsterr.com/ though
Developer response
posted a year agoHey! It in fact does work on this site.
Please look at the notice on the extension page.
You have to go to the add-ons manager about:addons in the URL bar, and manage volume control. Give it permission to "Access your data for all websites".
This site plays audio from an external page, so in order to access the iframe element the mutation observer in arrive.min.js needs api permission to view all site data.
Sorry for the delayed response, hope this works for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by aloola, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NBPE1997, a year agoThe sound on Netflix is far too quiet; I guess they want your volume up as much as possible because they like to have sound that's both very loud and very quiet? Probably fine with headphones or a good sound system, but the maximum volume on my gaming laptop was not enough for me to be able to hear well (And I'm 25!)
This extension works perfectly! Thank you to the author! - Rated 5 out of 5by fam, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by king kong, a year agoU have to add feature all tabs volume same. When ever i reload my tab volume booster gets reseted everytime
its annoying to increase vol again/Developer response
posted a year agoIts important to have the volume reset, so you don't get blasted with super over amplified volume. Since most websites don't normalize volume, it's a big risk to save this setting.
It also requires me to request more API access from Mozilla. As that functionality would require "local data access" for the extension to remember your settings. Requiring more permissions, generally makes users more anxious about the extension and adds further scrutiny from Mozilla admins.
So I hope you can understand, why I haven't include this functionality...
Please amend your review to a higher rating, create an issue on the github repository, and I will make a release for you in the next month with this functionality. - Rated 3 out of 5by TigerNightmare, a year agoWhen it works, it works well, it's simple and effective. However, it completely breaks audio on a lot of sites such as IMDB, where there is no sound, or Prime Video, which shows an error message if you try to watch anything. The only way around it is a four step process where I have to right click the icon, click 'Manage Extension', click the toggle to disable, then click back to the tab I was in. And then when I finish watching whatever video, I have to click back to the extension management tab and re-enable it.
It would be nice if there was an easy way to disable the extension in 1-2 clicks, or right click it and blacklist the entire site in the current tab so that it automatically disables itself, it would be much less of a hassle. Ideally, it would just work on all sites, but I'd settle for workarounds.
EDIT: Found another problem where it really breaks Bing functionality. I can't access the menu, video result previews don't play, and only the first 8 thumbnails load in, while everything else is a black rectangle. Image searches show a similar problem where no thumbnails below the top results load in. If I make my window larger, more results show, but as soon as I page down, broken.Developer response
posted a year agoDefault behavior extension should only run on the tab when clicked. https://i.ibb.co/L9zdQsY/image.png if it's not working as expected remove permissions under about:addons.
This behavior works better on MS:Edge.
Prime video is also working fine for me. https://i.ibb.co/sjMP70Y/image.png
I'm not experiencing any issues with bing.com, the videos seem to be mostly youtube videos and they load as normal. Do you have other extensions installed? Also because MS love proprietary nonsense. I recommend using User Agent Switcher to make all MS junk to use Edge's UA.
Further changes to allow per URL stuff, and caching sites requires more permissions. This was originally meant to be low permission, and the smallest footprint volume control plugin.
Please contact me in the Github repository via the issues tab. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18014157, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17531386, a year ago
Developer response
posted a year agoThe description states it works for html5 video, so I hope you can change your review to reflect that this extension is working as stated.
Sorry, it probably uses webrtc and I don’t think I have a method to inject in such APIs.
Most things that interface with call audio causes many glitches since its live two way communication and that requires such low latency.
I have never used whatsapp but it is a service that requires phone linking etc? So I don't have a way to test it.- Rated 1 out of 5by Seth, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15076878, a year agoRuns very well for HTML5 video. Clean and Light. Thanks for creating this extension! Very useful!
Developer response
posted a year agoPlease elaborate. What is the issue? What sites does the issue persist on? Please leave constructive feedback, so I can assist you and the community.- Rated 5 out of 5by hehe, a year agoworks perfectly. exactly what i wanted, a no-nonsense extra volume slider. i have issues with audio sensitivity and being able to make things as quiet as humanly possible is a godsend.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15424867, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fleerb_, a year agoworks great once set up, super helpful for lots of sites.
It seems to be interfering with being able to play videos at all on Amazon Prime video at the moment which is a shame, but disabling it whilst on Prime then enabling after does the trickDeveloper response
posted a year agoThanks, for your positive feedback.
If you right click the extension, you should see the default is permission-less, it needs to be clicked to get permission -to then work on the current URL.
If clicking on the extension, you may hear audio clip for a ms as it takes permission.
Therefore it should not be in an active state, prior to clicking. If you are not able to reproduce this, and the problem is still existing despite the extension not having permission LMK I will look into it, but it will most likely require a bg.js - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17975092, a year agoreally good but pls fix the problem where it goes earr*ape loud on certain parts of a youtube video when set on highest setting been using this for almost a year now and its the only problem i have +can you make it work on reddit?
Developer response
posted a year agoHi, the issue with 'earr*pe' is from the youtuber they often don't normalize volume and if they do they create ultra loud 'earr*pe' as a 'meme' especially people like pewdiepie they always did a really loud sound for comedic affect.
The only resolution to do that is normalize the volume on your site, as noise normalization requires such logic that it ties into your system drivers.
As for reddit it should be working if you granted the permissions as stated in the latest patch notes lmk. - Rated 5 out of 5by Weaponx96, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by shonka, a year agoi have been using it for a few months now and it works great recently had a small problem with it interfering with Disney plus but the developer help me figure it out
Developer response
posted a year agoHello, thanks for your input, I was resistant on submitting further updates as most features/compatibility is only fixed by requiring further permissions.
However I have submitted the update now, I hope it resolves your issue with twitch.
LMK, if it does I would love your five star! <3- Rated 4 out of 5by Ben, 2 years agoProbably the best option so far in software volume boosters, at least if you're mostly using Youtube. Though, this plugin (like all others of the same genre) fail to keep the volume setting for a site. So for instance if you watch a YT video and set it to +8dB, then watch a second YT video, you'll be back to +0dB and will have to manually set it back to +8dB or whatever. This is very annoying as unfortunately I have got one of those 800$ Acer P.O.S. laptops that have the speakers mounted ON THE BOTTOM so any sound is effectively half as loud as it normally would be on any normal laptop. I don't know what they smoked while designing this laptop, but thanks to your plugin, I can AT LEAST understand what the Youtuber says when volume is at 100% in Windows. If you could make it so that it retains the +dB setting for a given domain name or at the very least, have users edit the default +dB value to something else than +0dB it would be 5 stars out of 5!
Developer response
posted a year agoI would love to include persistent memory but to add such a cache would request file access permission which spooks more users away from the extension. - Rated 5 out of 5by SourCandy, 2 years agoHad to uninstall because it randomly requested all data permissions without any change notes on Github or "Release Notes" section in the extensions settings.
Edit Response:
I see. I'm fine with the increased permissions if it is allowed to do that now. Just wish there was notes somewhere explaining the change just to be sure your Mozilla account didn't get hacked or something and malicious code was added lol.
Is there any way to make it work on gogoanime.llc or sites that use a similar player?
Thanks!Developer response
posted 2 years agoThe latest revision, where you lowered your rating in fact made it work on this site.
I've reverted the extension to the previous release on FireFox.com
Hi, I was contemplating for awhile weather I should add more functionality, but it would require more permissions. This new update checks iframes for content. Previously only checked tabs, so it worked on less sites.
I might make two branches, I’ll revert this and make this branch “reduced permissions” and release a new extension (extra functionality).