# Streamlink Handoff

> Pass video URLs to Streamlink for playback

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `streamlink-handoff`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** bgh
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 26
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.0.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-04-18
- **First published:** 2022-02-11
- **Size:** 14 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/streamlink-handoff/)

## Description

Streamlink Handoff is a companion extension for Streamlink that adds a context menu option to pass supported video URLs to Streamlink for playback. It requires Streamlink, VLC media player or mpv, and native messaging host configuration.

## Rankings

- #21,735 — Overall
- #154 — stream
- #186 — setup

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `menus`
- `nativeMessaging`
- `storage`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/streamlink-handoff)