HTML5 Video Keyboard Shortcuts

Add keyboard support to Chrome's native HTML5 video player.

What is HTML5 Video Keyboard Shortcuts?

"HTML5 Video Keyboard Shortcuts" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your video playback experience by adding a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts. It works seamlessly with Chrome's native HTML5 video player, providing controls for play/pause, skipping, volume adjustment, and more without interfering with custom video players like YouTube. The extension is open source and has a variety of settings to customize the controls to your preference.

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By: AjaxGb

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 7,000+

Rating: 4.12 (94)

Version: 4.1.5 (Last updated: 2024-03-11)

Creation date: 2017-08-14

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

contextMenus
storage

Size: 46.94K

Email: aj*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 11814 ▼ 170

Other rankings

#193 in Functionality & UI ▼ 2

#38 in keyboard keyword 44 ▼ 3

#41 in shortcut keyword 34 ▲ 2

#60 in video player keyword 46 ▼ 4

#84 in arrow keyword 14 ▼ 3

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Summary

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Tired of Chrome's primitive built-in HTML5 video player?

This extension adds an extensive list of keyboard controls to improve your viewing experience. The shortcuts are only active on videos with the default controls enabled, so don't worry about them messing up YouTube or other custom video players. To enable controls (and keyboard shortcuts) on videos that don't have them, just right-click the video in question and select "Show controls".

Note that this extension is only meant to affect Chrome's native HTML5 video player!

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FULL LIST OF SHORTCUTS:

-Click: Select video, Play/Pause selected video -Double-Click / F: Toggle fullscreen -Space / K:

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Behaves like VLC player
Allows keyboard shortcuts for video control
Works with some websites and Facebook videos

Cons

Does not work with all websites or direct video URLs
May cause video playback delay
Not maintained or updated

Most mentioned

Behaves like VLC player
Doesn't work on YouTube
No longer maintained

Recent reviews

As another reviewer said, it "just behaves like VLC player", but that's not quite right... Bluetooth audio devices add lag, so for audio-video synchronization it would be great to see VLC's audio delay J (-50ms) and K (+50ms) hotkey features implemented here too. Overall a fantastic little extension :)

Scott Pierobon, 2024-04-01

Dávid Eredics, 2024-02-26

For those looking for a solution: At first it didn't work for me. I enabled 'Allow Access to Urls' Option and restarted chrome. Yeh! It worked for me. Give your try.. 👍