# Double Speed Preview

> Hold Shift and hover over a media playback bar to preview at 2× speed for 3 seconds.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/double-speed-preview](https://chrome-stats.com/d/double-speed-preview)

## Overview

- **ID:** `double-speed-preview`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lieu
- **Category:** other
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-14
- **First published:** 2025-08-11
- **Size:** 9.82 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/double-speed-preview/)

## Description

Double Speed Preview – Hold Shift while hovering over the play bar to listen at double speed for 3 seconds.

## Rankings

- #135,433 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/double-speed-preview)