Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]
Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython
Review by TigerNightmare
Rated 3 out of 5
by TigerNightmare, 3 years agoWhen it works, it works well, it's simple and effective. However, it completely breaks audio on a lot of sites such as IMDB, where there is no sound, or Prime Video, which shows an error message if you try to watch anything. The only way around it is a four step process where I have to right click the icon, click 'Manage Extension', click the toggle to disable, then click back to the tab I was in. And then when I finish watching whatever video, I have to click back to the extension management tab and re-enable it.
It would be nice if there was an easy way to disable the extension in 1-2 clicks, or right click it and blacklist the entire site in the current tab so that it automatically disables itself, it would be much less of a hassle. Ideally, it would just work on all sites, but I'd settle for workarounds.
EDIT: Found another problem where it really breaks Bing functionality. I can't access the menu, video result previews don't play, and only the first 8 thumbnails load in, while everything else is a black rectangle. Image searches show a similar problem where no thumbnails below the top results load in. If I make my window larger, more results show, but as soon as I page down, broken.
It would be nice if there was an easy way to disable the extension in 1-2 clicks, or right click it and blacklist the entire site in the current tab so that it automatically disables itself, it would be much less of a hassle. Ideally, it would just work on all sites, but I'd settle for workarounds.
EDIT: Found another problem where it really breaks Bing functionality. I can't access the menu, video result previews don't play, and only the first 8 thumbnails load in, while everything else is a black rectangle. Image searches show a similar problem where no thumbnails below the top results load in. If I make my window larger, more results show, but as soon as I page down, broken.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoDefault behavior extension should only run on the tab when clicked. https://i.ibb.co/L9zdQsY/image.png if it's not working as expected remove permissions under about:addons.
This behavior works better on MS:Edge.
Prime video is also working fine for me. https://i.ibb.co/sjMP70Y/image.png
I'm not experiencing any issues with bing.com, the videos seem to be mostly youtube videos and they load as normal. Do you have other extensions installed? Also because MS love proprietary nonsense. I recommend using User Agent Switcher to make all MS junk to use Edge's UA.
Further changes to allow per URL stuff, and caching sites requires more permissions. This was originally meant to be low permission, and the smallest footprint volume control plugin.
Please contact me in the Github repository via the issues tab.
This behavior works better on MS:Edge.
Prime video is also working fine for me. https://i.ibb.co/sjMP70Y/image.png
I'm not experiencing any issues with bing.com, the videos seem to be mostly youtube videos and they load as normal. Do you have other extensions installed? Also because MS love proprietary nonsense. I recommend using User Agent Switcher to make all MS junk to use Edge's UA.
Further changes to allow per URL stuff, and caching sites requires more permissions. This was originally meant to be low permission, and the smallest footprint volume control plugin.
Please contact me in the Github repository via the issues tab.
161 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Planetshaper, 14 hours agoworks fine for me! for anyone having issues, it must be on y'alls end sadly. hope y'all can resolve it <3
- Rated 5 out of 5by sarpedon, 2 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by kakaze, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pedro, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15920343, 25 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 4ndr11, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Draugvorn, 3 months agoThanks to Chaython putting the source code on GitHub, you can check for yourself that everything's above board. The extension does exactly what it says on the tin!
- Rated 5 out of 5by syc.inc, 4 months agothis one actually works and should be at the top of the list.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16859750, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SrsMnk, 6 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16912776, 6 months agoMutes all audio if i try and boost it, need to unistall to get audio back
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18534945, 7 months agoIt breaks a lot of websites that has embedded videos, even sites that don't even have videos/sound at all.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Det.Fusco, 7 months agoI was using a volume manager extension on chrome that one could increase and lower volume in some increments via customizable extension shortcuts. Mine were alt+up/down arrow keys
It'd be nice if we could do the same here. We can already bring up the volume window by an extension shortcut. Why not add a few for up and down adjustments? - Rated 1 out of 5by Slinx, 8 months agowould be 5 stars, but it makes all audio on the browser crackle and even slightly stutter
Developer response
posted 8 months agoIt really shouldn't the only reason it should crackle is if you turn the volume past 0db because some audio sources might peak.
Your issue of audio crackling is usually a non-grounded auxiliary or, a high memory latency / memory bug.
When I was on z97 and had my memory set to 2133mhz [a very high xmp value for ddr3] the audio constantly crackled when running certain applications. This can also be experienced when running with a lack of buffer while using an ASIO driver.
Completely unrelated to the plugin itself but maybe exacerbated by it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Nozomi Miyamori, 9 months ago
Developer response
posted 8 months agoIf you open the popup to control the volume then on most sites that have html video it should be able to increase the volume unless the site employs a strict CSP.- Rated 5 out of 5by Manas, 10 months ago
Developer response
posted 8 months agoIf you open the popup to control the volume then on most sites that have html video it should be able to increase the volume unless the site employs a strict CSP.- Rated 1 out of 5by Jasmin, 10 months ago