Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]
Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython
105 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by NiyaShy, 5 months agoWorks as described. I'll never understand why certain sites (like Bandcamp or Patreon) don't have an on-site volume slider for their music widgets and instead just blast you at full volume... Being able to adjust the volume down per site/tab is just perfect and way better than having to temporarily turn down the volume for the whole browser instance. The FOSS nature and minimal permissions are the cherry on top that make this a perfect choice :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by utente ``, 5 months ago
Developer response
posted 5 months agoPlease leave further context, such as what websites you're experiencing issues on. Hope to hear from you, hopefully we can resolve your issues.- Rated 5 out of 5by Becoming, 6 months agoGet this extension! It is excellent! Here is why:
- works perfectly
- open source
- streamlined
- contains extensive documentation
- minimal permissions required to function
- the developer is very active (see other review for his/her responses and fixes)
There are many extensions that provide volume boosting functionality. The ones I have tried are completely untrustworthy. The main issues I have are things like: ad injection, NOT open source, pure copycats of other extensions, and so forth. - Rated 5 out of 5by Gabriel, 6 months agoPretty much the best Volume Controller in Firefox that I've found while also being pretty lightweight and straightforward.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rafael39934, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SmithM, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Guilherme Rosa, 7 months agoafter giving permission to access the data on visited websites it's working fine. Simple but great extension
- Rated 5 out of 5by DooMWhite, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17167318, 8 months agoGenerally pretty good, doesn't seem to work on https://www.songsterr.com/ though
Developer response
posted 7 months agoHey! It in fact does work on this site.
Please look at the notice on the extension page.
You have to go to the add-ons manager about:addons in the URL bar, and manage volume control. Give it permission to "Access your data for all websites".
This site plays audio from an external page, so in order to access the iframe element the mutation observer in arrive.min.js needs api permission to view all site data.
Sorry for the delayed response, hope this works for you. - Rated 5 out of 5by aloola, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NBPE1997, 8 months agoThe sound on Netflix is far too quiet; I guess they want your volume up as much as possible because they like to have sound that's both very loud and very quiet? Probably fine with headphones or a good sound system, but the maximum volume on my gaming laptop was not enough for me to be able to hear well (And I'm 25!)
This extension works perfectly! Thank you to the author! - Rated 5 out of 5by fam, 8 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by king kong, 9 months agoU have to add feature all tabs volume same. When ever i reload my tab volume booster gets reseted everytime
its annoying to increase vol again/Developer response
posted 9 months agoIts important to have the volume reset, so you don't get blasted with super over amplified volume. Since most websites don't normalize volume, it's a big risk to save this setting.
It also requires me to request more API access from Mozilla. As that functionality would require "local data access" for the extension to remember your settings. Requiring more permissions, generally makes users more anxious about the extension and adds further scrutiny from Mozilla admins.
So I hope you can understand, why I haven't include this functionality...
Please amend your review to a higher rating, create an issue on the github repository, and I will make a release for you in the next month with this functionality. - Rated 3 out of 5by TigerNightmare, 10 months 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.Developer response
posted 10 months 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18014157, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17531386, 10 months ago
Developer response
posted 10 months agoThe description states it works for html5 video, so I hope you can change your review to reflect that this extension is working as stated.
Sorry, it probably uses webrtc and I don’t think I have a method to inject in such APIs.
Most things that interface with call audio causes many glitches since its live two way communication and that requires such low latency.
I have never used whatsapp but it is a service that requires phone linking etc? So I don't have a way to test it.- Rated 1 out of 5by Seth, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by lofty, 10 months agoOUTSTANDING!
Others were silent/muted, but this one works well. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15076878, 10 months agoRuns very well for HTML5 video. Clean and Light. Thanks for creating this extension! Very useful!
Developer response
posted 10 months agoPlease elaborate. What is the issue? What sites does the issue persist on? Please leave constructive feedback, so I can assist you and the community.- Rated 5 out of 5by hehe, a year agoworks perfectly. exactly what i wanted, a no-nonsense extra volume slider. i have issues with audio sensitivity and being able to make things as quiet as humanly possible is a godsend.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15424867, a year ago