# Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

> Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitch\_5](https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitch_5)

## Overview

- **ID:** `twitch_5`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd)
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 44,186
- **Weekly downloads:** 602
- **Rating:** 4.26 / 5 (893 ratings)
- **Version:** 2026.6.21
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-29
- **First published:** 2016-06-06
- **Size:** 167 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twitch_5/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twitch\_5/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/twitch_5/privacy/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #346 — Overall
- #29 — Games & Entertainment
- #44 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #2 — player
- #5 — tv
- #17 — pitch

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `www.twitch.tv`
- `m.twitch.tv`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: twitch.tv, twitchcdn.net, ttvnw.net, jtvnw.net, live-video.net, akamaized.net, cloudfront.net
- This extension was updated in the past 3 months. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/twitch_5)