# YouTube Speed Controller

> Allows YouTube playback at any speed, from 0.1x to 10x. Simple, minimal, and effective.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-speed-controller](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-speed-controller)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-speed-controller`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Samuel Li
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 1,340
- **Weekly downloads:** 22
- **Rating:** 4.08 / 5 (37 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2022-06-30
- **First published:** 2018-01-28
- **Size:** 924 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-speed-controller/)

## Description

YouTube Speed Controller is a lightweight Chrome extension that empowers users to watch YouTube videos at any speed ranging from 0.1x to 10x. Upon opening a YouTube video, an icon in the URL bar displays the current playback speed, allowing users to click and enter any desired speed instantly. For quick adjustments, users can utilize the scroll wheel after clicking the entry box.

The extension offers customization options, such as changing the minimum step size for speed increments via the extension preferences. Its simple, minimal, and effective design enhances your video-watching experience by giving you complete control over playback speeds without clutter or complexity.

## Rankings

- #2,814 — Overall
- #261 — Games & Entertainment
- #25 — speed
- #44 — self control
- #73 — spend
- #99 — poll

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise the add-on for its simple UI, per-channel defaults, and playlist support. However, reliability issues persist: per-channel defaults aren’t consistently saved or honored, speeds reset during skips or ads, and there’s no fractional-speed support. YouTube Music isn’t well supported due to domain restrictions, and there are broader compatibility problems on Android and older Firefox versions. Overall, it’s useful but has several persistent bugs and limitations that need addressing.

### Pros

- Per-channel default speeds are supported and valued
- Works with playlists and on individual videos
- Lightweight, simple UI that is easy to use
- Quick to set and apply defaults for channels

### Cons

- Settings do not persist between restarts / per-channel speeds not reliably saved
- Per-channel defaults are not consistently applied; some channels ignore them
- Speeds can reset when skipping ahead or when ads start
- No support for fractional speeds (no precise values)
- YouTube Music compatibility is limited / domain whitelisting issues (not working well on Music)

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