Alternate Player for Twitch.tv Firefox

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

By: Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd) Add-on
Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.

Overview

Firefox Add-ons Store
Daily users
44,812 ▼ 201
Data as of 2026-07-30
Rating:
4.26 +2
(885)
Version:
2026.6.21
Last updated: 2026-06-29
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Ranking
#335 ▼ 1
Overall
Category rank
#28 ▲ 1
Games & Entertainment

Features & Capabilities

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv is a Chrome extension designed to improve your live streaming experience on Twitch.tv. It offers fewer playback interruptions by tuning player settings based on your internet connection and provides instant replay with speed and frame-by-frame control.

Key features include ad-blocking for Twitch ads (excluding streamer-embedded ads), an audio-only mode perfect for music lovers, and automatic chest opening in chat for bonus points. Users can customize the chat's size and position, even during full-screen viewing, or disable it entirely to save system resources. Additional enhancements include volume control via mouse wheel, player interface colorization, and support for continuing streams in external media players like VLC or Media Player Classic. It's optimized for low RAM usage and rapid startup, especially on slower computers. Note that this extension is independently developed and requires permissions to access Twitch video domains. It currently supports live broadcasts only and is best used with a mouse for full functionality.

User Growth & Download Statistics

Manifest V2 Add-on Entertainment
By:
Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
Daily users:
44,812 -201
Rating:
4.26
(885) 2 new ratings
Version:
2026.6.21 Last updated: 2026-06-29
Version code:
6316955
Creation date:
2016-06-06
Risk:
Very high risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:
Content scripts matches:
  • www.twitch.tv
  • m.twitch.tv
Size:
167.36KB
Email:
De*****@gmail.com
URLs:
Privacy policy
Full description:
See detailed description
Source:
Firefox Add-ons Store
Data ingested on:
2026-07-30
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Ranking

# 335 ▼ 1
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Other platforms

Chrome
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv (v2026.6.21)
70,000 4.24 (1,674)
Edge
Alternate Player for Twitch.tv (v2026.6.21)
18,260 3.70 (75)

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Contact the developer

Chrome-Stats does not own this Firefox add-on. Please use these information below to contact the Firefox add-on developer.
Developed by:
Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
Firefox Add-ons Store
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twitch_5/
Email:
De*****@gmail.com

Permission Change History

2024-07-07: Version 2024.6.14 → 2024.7.3
Add Permissions: *://*.twitchcdn.net/* *://*.jtvnw.net/* *://*.live-video.net/* *://*.cloudfront.net/*

User Reviews

Overall, users broadly like the addon for a better-than-default Twitch experience, with solid ad-blocking and generally stable playback. Recurrent downsides include encrypted/DRM streams not being supported, ads causing buffering or not being hidden consistently, incompatibility with certain chat extensions, and requests for a dark mode.
Pros
  • Better-than-default Twitch experience with an improved playback interface compared to the official Twitch player.
  • Effective ad-blocking that reduces or eliminates ads in many cases.
  • Generally stable playback with reduced stuttering.
Cons
  • Does not support encrypted/DRM-protected streams, leading to errors on some broadcasts.
  • Ads can still cause buffering or freezing, and may not always be hidden as expected.
  • Lack of compatibility with BTTV/7TV/FrankerFaceZ chat extensions.
  • Missing dark mode / theme option for chat and UI.
Recent reviews
on mac it's perfect for a twitch chat addon. the player is smooth with a range of customization options. however if a stream encrypted it turns purple screen and requires you to click that one spot, can you make us click anywhere on the purple to continue watching? спасибо!
by mi*****, 2026-07-29
I REALLY love this plugin/extension! Amazing work! My biggest wishes is a feature/setting that lets you auto-confirm streams that aren't supported with this extension (streams that are encrypted). So that you dont have to manually click the button to be re-directed to the twitch page of the encrypted stream. My other wish would be that raids auto-directs you to the raided channel, rather than only directing the chat alone. Which would then function with the previous wish of allowing auto-directing without having to confirm. So having it function for encrypted and regular streams. Pleaseee! <3
by Fi*****, 2026-07-24
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Is Alternate Player for Twitch.tv Safe?

Risk impact
Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details
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Risk likelihood
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Alternate Player for Twitch.tv is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details
  • Medium This extension was updated in the past 3 months. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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