# TikTok Control Panel

> Control panel for TikTok: customize element visibility (sidebar, action bar, captions, pills...), enable background playback, arrow seeking, spacebar to pause/speed-up video, minimalist mode...

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tiktok-control-panel](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tiktok-control-panel)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tiktok-control-panel`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ElectricArdvark
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-06
- **First published:** 2026-08-25
- **Size:** 32 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tiktok-control-panel/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/ElectricArdvark/Tiktok-control-panel/](https://github.com/ElectricArdvark/Tiktok-control-panel/)

## Description

Comprehensive control panel for TikTok web designed to customize, manage, and improve your viewing experience.

<strong>Features:</strong>
- Minimalist Cinema Mode: Clean full-viewport presentation that allows clean viewing for vertical monitors.
- Element Visibility Customization: Selectively hide or display, sidebar, action bar icons (avatar, like, comment, bookmark, share, music), progress bar, captions...
- Background Playback: Keeps TikTok audio and video playing uninterrupted when switching tabs or minimizing the window.
- Configurable Arrow Seeking: Left/Right arrow key seeking with customizable step duration in seconds.
- Video Controls: Hold spacebar to speed-up video, Press spacebar to Pause the active video rather than scrolling the page.
- Extra Buttons: Adds mute / fullscreen buttons.

Also available as a userscript <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/e53fa69c983af70723dec2b0ccb15b57c02e47f625fdb00c909a2493cca70105/https%3A//github.com/ElectricArdvark/Tiktok-control-panel" rel="nofollow">GitHub</a>

## Rankings

- #103,704 — Overall
- #83 — panel
- #92 — tiktok

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.tiktok.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.tiktok.com`
- `tiktok.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: tiktok.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tiktok-control-panel)