Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

Name: Alternate Player for Twitch.tv
Rating: 4.2565 (881 reviews)
Author: Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)

By: Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)

Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.

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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

Add-on Entertainment

By:

Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)

Daily users:

44,932 12

Rating:

4.26

(881) 1 new ratings

Version:

2026.6.21 Last updated: 2026-06-29

Version code:

6316955

Creation date:

2016-06-06

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
cookies
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
clipboardWrite
*://*.twitch.tv/*
*://*.twitchcdn.net/*
*://*.ttvnw.net/*
*://*.jtvnw.net/*
*://*.live-video.net/*

Content scripts matches:

www.twitch.tv
m.twitch.tv

Size:

167.36KB

Email:

De*****@gmail.com

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-09

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 337 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#29 in Games & Entertainment

#42 in Photos, Music & Videos

#2 in player keyword 37

#5 in tv keyword 30

#15 in pitch keyword 35

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Other platforms

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv (v2026.6.21)

90,000 4.24

(1,671)

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv (v2026.6.21)

18,285 3.70

(75)

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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

by Iv*****, 2026-07-05

Been using this for years, love the addon. Obviously how it hides the ads, but also many of the great quality of life stuff added. That's why I'm sad I can't give more than 3 stars. Since more and more streamers broadcast in 2K, making their streams encrypted, and Alternate Player does not support encrypted broadcasts.

by Ju*****, 2026-07-04

important addon

by 66*****, 2026-07-01

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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

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

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

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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