# ff2mpv

> Tries to play links in mpv. Press the toolbar button to play the current URL in mpv. Otherwise, right click on a URL and use the context item to play an arbitrary URL. You'll need the native client here: github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ff2mpv](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ff2mpv)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ff2mpv`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** yossarian
- **Category:** download-management,photos-music-videos,other
- **Daily users:** 883
- **Weekly downloads:** 46
- **Rating:** 4.64 / 5 (44 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-11-26
- **First published:** 2017-09-30
- **Size:** 310 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv](https://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv)

## Description

The ff2mpv Chrome extension enables users to play web content directly within the powerful and open-source mpv video player. By pressing the toolbar button, you can instantly queue the current webpage's URL in mpv, making media playback quick and convenient. Alternatively, right-click any link on a page and select "Play in mpv" to stream that specific URL in your mpv player.

This extension requires the native client (available at github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv) to interface between Chrome and mpv for smooth operation. Built on mpv, a cross-platform media player derived from MPlayer and mplayer2, ff2mpv brings effortless media viewing from your browser to mpv's advanced playback environment.

## Rankings

- #3,519 — Overall
- #314 — Download Management
- #231 — play

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `nativeMessaging`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `scripting`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Facilitates communication between extensions and native applications, usually low risk if managed correctly.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users generally praise ff2mpv as simple, lightweight, and easy to customize, and as a reliable way to bypass Firefox's HTML5 video issues, especially on older hardware. Install is straightforward, and it’s perceived as low on permissions. However, reliability varies: several reports of it stopping unexpectedly, silent failures, or not working on some OSes (Linux Wayland, macOS Ventura). Some dependencies (youtube-dl/yt-dlp) updates and occasional redundancy with other tools also complicate use. Overall, strong on performance but not consistently dependable across environments.

### Pros

- Works great and easy to customize.
- Simple and lightweight with low permissions.
- Helps bypass Firefox's HTML5 video player issues.
- Good performance on old or low-spec hardware.
- Install and setup are straightforward.

### Cons

- Reliability is inconsistent: it sometimes stops working or silently fails.
- Does not work on certain OS/environments (e.g., Linux Wayland, macOS Ventura).
- Depends on external tools like youtube-dl/yt-dlp, which require updates.
- Some users find the feature redundant with other tools (e.g., Tridactyl).
- Occasional lack of error messages or logs when it fails.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ff2mpv)