Reviews for UltraWideo
UltraWideo by dvlden
Review by Andjela
Rated 5 out of 5
by Andjela, 10 months agoUltraWideo has been a game-changer for my video streaming experience. The extension's speed, adaptability to different platforms, and the ability to eliminate black bars have made it an essential tool for optimizing my content consumption. The minimal interface and customizable shortcuts make it user-friendly, ensuring a seamless and personalized viewing journey. UltraWideo has truly transformed the way I interact with videos online, and I highly recommend it to fellow users seeking an enhanced and enjoyable streaming experience.
187 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18670937, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by malihide, a month agoWonderful addon for those of us with a secondary or primary CRT monitor, since a lot of people forget to encode youtube uploads in 4:3 even if they contain no data outside that resolution.
My only request would be to allow it on a per-tab basis or restrict it to certain aspect ratios, since my primary monitor is ultrawide and I'd have to disable it manually every time I wanted to switch monitors. It looks like that's a work in progress for the pro version, but I'm not sure. Excellent addon nonetheless. It works instantly and flawlessly. - Rated 5 out of 5by ykjoy, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lifenight, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gavran_srb, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheInfidel, 2 months agoIve been using Ultrawidify for long, but it has major performance issues with 4k 60fps ultrawide (on very powerful hardware you will have 1% frame drops with it enabled). This extension is far slicker, lower footprint, does not cause ANY issues with the same footage, and it offers a very convenient way of adapting a quite troubled aspect ratio of superultrawide 5120x1440 32:9 to the needs of the user. It must be said that 5120x1440 32:9 is basically a failed concept of aspect ratio implementation on a monitor that is supposed to play content NOT natively made in that same format. It will NEVER work properly fullscreen without cropping or distortion. This resolution should have received a 32:10 monitor solution. Sadly cheaping out on the panel size made it a sad affair for scaling video content. The solution for me is to set X to 0:9 and Y 1.3 in stretch mode.This will have small horizontal black bars but they are a acceptable trade off , minimal cropping the content,and have a natural viewing experience with no distortion.
Alternatively setting it to NORMAL with X at 1.9 and Y at 1 will not crop anything, while having minimal black bars vertically.
Conclusion. No software solution can provide the perfect 32:9 5120x1440 experience. It is inherently a unbypassable hardware problem to display content not natively provided in that format. A video game that offers the resolution settings does this. A video not recorded in that same format can not, no upscaling or stretching can remedy this to perfection.
What i do not like is the paywall for pro features, at least name a price and the added functionality in your UI.Developer response
posted 2 months agoAppreciate the thorough review, TheInfidel.
Duly noted, regarding the paywall. As you may conclude from that, I am not really pushing people to upgrade to Pro. It's more of a support the development - type of thing.
Aside, I did not want to bloat the extension size by adding a bunch of text into the Popup window. At some point, I might describe it a bit better and have a page dedicated to the features and pricing, before authentication lock. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16128282, 3 months agoThank you for this extension! I can watch full screen on my 4:3 TV
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andre Luiz, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 1nikolas, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jsevenzero, 3 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Classy Car, 3 months agoWorks fine but begs for a review every time you update with no way to disable it.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoNoted! Thanks for the review. In the latest update I have disabled update notifications.
That is, until I think of a good solution where everyone will be satisfied. A way to toggle update notifications on/off, somewhere outside of the popup I assume. - Rated 5 out of 5by Hereiam, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13086535, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by alexnoheda, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by XTENDER, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ravi Teja, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Xonare, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Guilherme, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ShinReska, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15867231, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18542334, 3 months ago