# Media Session API Polyfill

> Adds Media Session API support to popular websites, letting you use pause/play buttons on your computer.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-session-api-polyfill](https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-session-api-polyfill)

## Overview

- **ID:** `media-session-api-polyfill`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sameer Puri
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 2
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2020-03-04
- **First published:** 2020-03-04
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/media-session-api-polyfill/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/sameer/media-session-polyfill](https://github.com/sameer/media-session-polyfill)

## Description

Media Session API Polyfill is a Firefox add-on that adds support for the Media Session API to popular websites. With this add-on, you can use pause/play buttons on your computer to control media playback on these websites.

## Rankings

- #66,177 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `music.amazon.com`
- `www.amazon.com`
- `primevideo.com`
- `www.youtube.com`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/media-session-api-polyfill)