Show Video Controls by Default

Extension lets you show control buttons by default when playing video or gifs.

Total ratings

3.38 (Rating count: 16)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Works well on native HTML videos
  • Effective for showing controls on social media platforms like 9GAG and Reddit
  • Simple and operates automatically when hovering over videos
  • Substitutes for the previous extension 'Always show html 5 controls'
  • Compatible with various browsers including Chrome and Edge
Cons
  • Doesn't work on GIFs
  • Inconsistent performance across different websites
  • No option to disable on certain pages
  • Doesn't function on Facebook
  • Some users encountered issues with specific video formats
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work on GIFs
  • Works on videos on Reddit
  • Good for 9GAG
  • Works with videos as well as with GIFs
  • Doesn't work on Facebook
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Recent reviews

Recent rating average: 2.80
All time rating average: 3.38
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-07-25
Jim Rossi
en Doesn't work.
2024-06-11
Artemi Lebedev
en How to use it?
2024-05-07
Nicole Ahmed
en Didn't work for me with gifv (gif videos) on reddit which is what i needed it for
2024-04-28
Jörg Roßdeutscher
2024-04-14
GuestHTPC
en Doesn't seem to work on any website I tried.
2024-02-15
Jan Grabowski
en It works, but would be nice to have some option to disable it for some pages. On X video controls are doubled, because there are also custom ones.
2024-02-01
Nick A
en Doesn't work on the site I tried that has an .mp4 video auto-playing inside a <video> tag.
2023-10-10
George Popescu
Works like a charm, good for 9gag to show the controls by default. Works with videos as well as with GIFs
2023-10-10
George Popescu
en Works like a charm, good for 9gag to show the controls by default. Works with videos as well as with GIFs
2023-09-06
m.nageh
Doesn't work on GIFs
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