Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]
Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 3 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 3 years 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.
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 3 years 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.
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.
168 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mavaddat Javid, 2 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by SamsonIzBored07, 8 days agoGood, but it's just a compressor... I need something that boosts the volume with any compression being applied.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17590626, 10 days agoIn some websites I don't have any audio - where I used to - until I disable this extension.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17714974, 11 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by fcff, 14 days agoHorrible. Half the sites I go to brick the player until I turn off the volume booster. So dumb
- Rated 5 out of 5by susi_exe, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16703451, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Planetshaper, 19 days agoworks fine for me! for anyone having issues, it must be on y'alls end sadly. hope y'all can resolve it <3
- Rated 5 out of 5by sarpedon, 20 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by kakaze, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15920343, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 4ndr11, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Draugvorn, 4 months agoThanks to Chaython putting the source code on GitHub, you can check for yourself that everything's above board. The extension does exactly what it says on the tin!
- Rated 5 out of 5by syc.inc, 5 months agothis one actually works and should be at the top of the list.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16859750, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SrsMnk, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16912776, 7 months agoMutes all audio if i try and boost it, need to unistall to get audio back
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18534945, 7 months agoIt breaks a lot of websites that has embedded videos, even sites that don't even have videos/sound at all.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Det.Fusco, 8 months agoI was using a volume manager extension on chrome that one could increase and lower volume in some increments via customizable extension shortcuts. Mine were alt+up/down arrow keys
It'd be nice if we could do the same here. We can already bring up the volume window by an extension shortcut. Why not add a few for up and down adjustments?