# Speedster

> Control media playback speed with keyboard shortcuts allowing unlimited speed.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/speedster100](https://chrome-stats.com/d/speedster100)

## Overview

- **ID:** `speedster100`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Abhigyan Narayan
- **Category:** web-development,appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Version:** 1.7
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-22
- **First published:** 2025-06-17
- **Size:** 331 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/speedster100/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/abhigyan-narayan/Speedster](https://github.com/abhigyan-narayan/Speedster)

## Description

Alt + W to increase playback speed.
Alt + X to decrease playback speed.
Alt + Z to reset playback speed.

These shortcuts can be changed and there is no upper cap on the playback speed.
Shortcuts should be automatically assigned but, if not, you can assign them on the firefox extension page. You may need to restart Firefox to see the effect.

## Rankings

- #56,042 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/speedster100)