Controls for Instagram Videos - Enhance Your Instagram Experience
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This tiny and efficient extension adds standard video playback controls to Instagram™ videos. Normally, all you can do with an Instagram™ video is play or pause it, but this extension will expose the native HTML 5 video player which has a seek bar (aka video scrubber), a volume control, a play/pause button, Picture-In-Picture (floating video) button, fullscreen video button, and on some videos it will also display a download button!
The extension automatically runs and works on all web pages that embed Instagram™ videos!
How to use it:
- Load any web page that contains an Instagram video
- Click the video to make it play
- That's it - the extension will automatically detect the video and will reveal the control buttons.
Options: -Control volume and playback speed via hotkey. -Remember your volume and playback speed for future videos. See the extension config page via right-clicking the extension icon in your browser bar, then select "Options". Or, just navigate to chrome://extensions/
Default Hotkeys - customizable via chrome://extensions/shortcuts
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- Works as promised and adds video controls to Instagram videos
- Easy to use and functional without fuss
- Allows seeking in videos effectively
- Volume settings do not save between videos
- Issues with sound muting when pausing or navigating
- Does not work on Instagram reels
- Volume resets every video and restart
- Great functionality but needs to keep volume consistent
- Sound control is lacking despite good video navigation features
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Controls for Instagram Videos requires very minimum permissions.
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Controls for Instagram Videos has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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