# Player for video

> A touch-first video player for Firefox on Android. No telemetry, no network access

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `nocturne-player`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** kvachikk
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 28
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-16
- **First published:** 2026-08-02
- **Size:** 45 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nocturne-player/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/kvachikk/nocturne-player/issues](https://github.com/kvachikk/nocturne-player/issues)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nocturne-player/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/nocturne-player/privacy/)

## Description

Firefox for Android's built-in video controls are a thin progress line and a play
button. Player replaces them with controls built for a thumb.

<strong>Controls</strong>
* <strong>Pinch</strong> — the picture fills the screen from the start, with no black bars;
pinch to go back to the full frame and it snaps cleanly between the two.
<ul><li><strong>Tap at center to pause.</strong> The picture fades to grey while paused, like Netflix.</li><li><strong>−5 and +10</strong> buttons either side of play, and a double-tap on either side of
the screen does the same.</li><li><strong>Seek bar</strong> — thick and raised off the bottom edge. Grab it <em>anywhere</em>, not just
at the current position, and it moves with your finger. Slide your finger away from
the bar and scrubbing gets finer, so you can land on an exact moment in a long film.
The time you started from stays on the left, so you can always get back.</li><li><strong>Hold either side</strong> to scrub at 2x, forward or back.</li></ul>
<strong>Picture</strong>
<ul><li><strong>Night light</strong> — warms the picture to a comfortable amber for watching in the dark.</li><li><strong>Brightness, contrast and saturation</strong> — adjusted with + and − buttons, not fiddly
sliders. With everything at its default the picture is passed through untouched.</li></ul>
<strong>Subtitles</strong>
<ul><li>Use the site's own tracks, or load an .srt / .vtt file from your phone.</li><li>Adjustable size, and a sync offset for when subtitles drift.</li></ul>
<strong>Also</strong>
<ul><li>Playback speed from 0.5x to 2x.</li><li>Quality switching where a site offers several sources.</li><li>Settings are remembered on your device.</li></ul>
<strong>Privacy</strong>

Nocturne Player has no network access at all. There is no fetch, no XMLHttpRequest,
no beacon and no remote URL anywhere in the source — a continuous integration check
fails the build if any of them ever appear. It asks for two permissions: storage, to
remember your settings on your device, and activeTab, so the popup can show which
site you are on. Nothing is collected and nothing is sent anywhere.

<strong>Scope</strong>

Built for ordinary sites that play video through a plain HTML video element. It
deliberately does not touch YouTube, Vimeo or TikTok — those ship their own player
layers.

<strong>Known limits</strong>
* Volume is left to the phone's own buttons.
* There is no sound while holding to scrub.

Source code: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/dadbf02242e17880d4c5dc2b372a02660d61940bf13bc8be50e6cfed1f4791b5/https%3A//github.com/kvachikk/nocturne-player" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kvachikk/nocturne-player</a>

## Rankings

- #21,191 — Overall
- #17 — video player
- #68 — player
- #216 — touch

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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