# Media Controller

> Globally control media playbacks across tabs at the toolbar.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `mcx`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Tony Chan
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,tabs
- **Daily users:** 720
- **Weekly downloads:** 39
- **Rating:** 4.37 / 5 (41 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2.7
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-03
- **First published:** 2023-04-30
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mcx/)

## Description

Media Controller is a Firefox add-on that allows you to globally control media playbacks across tabs directly from your toolbar. With this add-on, you can easily play, pause, and control the volume of media from any tab, without the need to switch between them.

## Rankings

- #4,059 — Overall
- #12 — media
- #29 — self control
- #48 — control
- #73 — poll
- #119 — medium

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users find Media Controller useful and frequently rely on it for global media control across sites like Twitch and YouTube. Many praise its usefulness and ease of use. However, recurring issues center on reliability: the extension can be temperamental, occasionally failing to control playback, or only opening a tab link instead of controlling media. Spotify and YouTube Music remain problematic for many users. Key features often requested include volume control, a keyboard shortcut to open the control panel, and a picture-in-picture option. Visual polish and consistent appearance in the toolbar are also cited as improvements.

### Pros

- Genuinely helpful extension that users rely on for daily media control.
- Works across major sites (Twitch, YouTube, YouTube Music) for media control.
- Easy to use with a clean, usable UI.
- Overall effective at accomplishing its core function and highly valued by users.

### Cons

- Reliability issues: temperamental, often inconsistent or stops working.
- Spotify support is broken: cannot control Spotify; sometimes only opens a link to the tab.
- YouTube Music support is inconsistent or not working.
- Missing essential features: no volume control and no keyboard shortcut (also requests for PiP button).
- UI polish needed; some reviews describe the UI as rough or outdated, and it sometimes fails to appear in the toolbar.

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