Controls for Instagram Videos
What is Controls for Instagram Videos?
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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
User reviews
- Excellent video seeking capabilities
- Remembers video volume level
- Improves Instagram video usability on desktop
- Fulfills a much-needed feature absent in Instagram
- Volume settings often reset or don't work
- Mutes audio when clicking controls or pausing videos
- Hijacks global keyboard shortcuts on Mac
- Overlapping buttons make the extension unusable in some scenarios
- Issues with volume control
- Mutes audio unexpectedly
- Needs improvements for a better user experience
- Great feature set but requires updates
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Controls for Instagram Videos is relatively safe to use as it 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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