# Media Controller

> Controls Media elements from Add-on bar on Toolbox Features: -Control playback -Focus any site -Site/media volume Control -Seek media -Next/Previous Track control

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-controller-addon](https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-controller-addon)

## Overview

- **ID:** `media-controller-addon`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ashish
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 64
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 4.71 / 5 (7 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.6.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-21
- **First published:** 2023-12-28
- **Size:** 619 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/media-controller-addon/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/heckop/Media-controller](https://github.com/heckop/Media-controller)

## Description

Author: Ashish Bharti
Controls Media elements from Add-on bar on Toolbox

Features:

<code>Control playback

Focus any site

Site/media volume Control

Seek media

PIP (Better to enable Firefox inbuilt PIP mode)

Next/Previous button to control media
</code>

Important:

<code>Add-on Permissions: This add-on generally minimizes the user's permission; only media permissions are used in the source code. If there is any scope for improvement, please open an issue at my GitHub repo. More details on individual permissions can be found here: Mozilla Developer Network

Payment: This add-on is entirely free.

Feedback: If you like my work, please rate the add-on on Firefox. If possible, write a review, as it would be helpful to other users.

Feature Suggestion: If you want to add new features, you can either create an issue or add the feature on your cloned repo and create a Pull Request (PR).

Bugs: If you find any bug, create an issue on the add-on repository. I will try to fix it ASAP.
</code>

## Rankings

- #14,397 — Overall
- #32 — media
- #90 — self control
- #95 — control
- #130 — payments
- #187 — medium

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-controller-addon)