Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by thmt on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:03AM (#29315007)

Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed!

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/

Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune the speed easily.

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:48AM (#29315537)

Can I now has 4x speedup for meetings?

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by petargyurov on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:02AM (#29315919)

Sure. You now have time for 4x more meetings! Enjoy!

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by ireadfaces on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:06PM (#29321849)

Not just any videos. Now I even speed up movies on netflix. That's why I have to watch them on laptop now, as I can't speed them up on TV.

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by weedfroglozenge on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:17AM (#29315370)

Wow thanks! This is exactly what I need thanks to constant phone notifications which have reduced my attention span to.... that of something with a small attention span!

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by selrond on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:40PM (#29322306)

While I do use video speed controller as well, just for the record - there are shortcuts for video speed manipulation for YouTube:

> Speed up the video playback rate. < Slow down the video playback rate.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7631406?hl=en

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by mike_d on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @02:22AM (#29315397)

This extension is amazing if you have to do mandatory training videos at work and they speak at a snails pace.

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by lpapez on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:24AM (#29316992)

Multiple tabs of videos playing on 4x speed. We did speedrunning contests on these mandatory training videos in my previous company. Good times.

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by NylaTheWolf on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @10:16AM (#29318757)

Enhancer for YouTube has a feature like this. Love that extension

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by antifa on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @09:31PM (#29326361)

Good to see you can adjust by intervals like 0.10, YouTube's default increments of strictly 0.25 make it impossible to watch most videos at a reasonable pace.

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Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? by Cilvic on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:38AM (#29315160)

Video Speed Controller was an absolute revolution for me. No more switching tabs because the video is too slow.

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