# eq8

> Parametric equalization in your browser. Applies a full-blown equalizer (EQ) to all Audio/Video elements in your browser.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/eq8](https://chrome-stats.com/d/eq8)

## Overview

- **ID:** `eq8`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tyler S.
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 1,132
- **Weekly downloads:** 79
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (50 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-27
- **First published:** 2019-10-25
- **Size:** 145 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/eq8/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/pulse0ne/eq8/issues](https://github.com/pulse0ne/eq8/issues)

## Description

**eq8** is a powerful Chrome extension that brings full parametric equalization directly to your browser. Designed to work seamlessly with all audio and video elements, eq8 allows you to customize the sound experience while streaming music, watching videos, or listening to talks.

With eq8, you can easily boost the bass for richer music playback or enhance the treble to bring clarity to spoken words in presentations and podcasts. This intuitive tool gives you complete control over your browser's audio settings, ensuring a personalized and enhanced listening experience without the need for external software.

## Rankings

- #3,117 — Overall
- #67 — increase
- #89 — shape
- #141 — pull
- #181 — element

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### 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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## Review summary

Overall, users praise eq8 for delivering high-quality sound with a powerful, highly parametric EQ and a sleek UI. It’s seen as incredibly useful and effective, especially on YouTube, with noticeable bass and sound improvements. However, reliability is a recurring issue: in several reviews it did nothing or had no effect. Compatibility problems are even more prominent: it can mute or block audio on many non-YouTube sites and DRM-restricted services, and some sites (radio, Spotify, Bandcamp) require disabling to listen. Some users also want a compressor and additional HPF options.

### Pros

- Excellent high-quality sound with powerful parametric EQ
- Highly configurable with true parametric control and infinite adjustability
- Modern, professional UI/UX and precise controls
- Generally useful and works well across sites, especially YouTube
- Great bass response / sound improvement on some setups

### Cons

- Occasional no-effect or reliability issues where the extension does not work
- Blocks or silences audio on many non-YouTube sites, indicating broad site-compatibility problems
- Compatibility with DRM-restricted sites (Disney+, Bandcamp issues) requiring disabling or workaround
- Inconsistent site support (works on YouTube but not on radio/Spotify)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/eq8)