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Reviews for Volume Control [Boost volume]

Volume Control [Boost volume] by Chaython

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  • by Dav, a year ago
    It's stopped working completely. Makes no adjustments to volume and prevents any audio playing on several sites. Tried the permissions thing suggested in the latest change notes, but still won't work so I had to uninstall it.

    EDIT: There is no visible means to reply directly. No sound on YouTube or Imgur. Only other plugins are Malwayre Bytes, Surfsharf VPN, LastPass and Gramerly.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Did you have any other extensions installed? What websites didn't work?
  • by Firefox user 17327488, a year ago
    Works well for sites it wont break

    This extension does break bing for me and i found that out after enabling half of my extensions each time and narrowing down from there until i landed on this extension that was breaking bing

    so i have to disable it when i want to use bing

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Are you using the all_urls permission?
    I haven't had issues with the permission given or not but the only real troubleshooting is that as this manipulates elements within webpages (audio/video) and some sites tell Firefox "you're not allowed to".
    If all URLs is set on some sites they won't load audio elements at all because of those annoying security policies
    On other sites with relaxed security policies the extension will only be able to manipulate audio with all_urls permission because the video is an iframe loaded from a seperate site
  • by DonVergo, a year ago
    Not working on the website I planned to use it for. Apparently it does work on YouTube but the audio there is mostly fine.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Please tell me what site....
    If you read the description, assigning permission to allow all urls in the permission options allows it to work on more sites.
    Help me, help you, why just leave a negative review? It's open source and I do this as a hobby (I get nothing from it) and have spent countless hours working on it, so it's painful to see a negative review with no way of remedying it.
  • by Alexandra, a year ago
    Overall the extension is really great, however it would be great if there were the ability to disable it for specific websites or for the extension to actually do nothing at +0 dB,

    I am saying this, because currently there seems to be a bug with this extension that if you have it, and it has the permission "Access your data for all websites", videos in the online discord app do not make any sound.

    I did check and without the extension or the permission that issue does not occur, however if i don't give the permission the teal dot of the extension requesting it is really annoying, so i think for now i will either remove it or simply disable it until and unless the issue gets resolved

    (EDIT)
    More specifically, video files in discord(at least ones with the .mov extension) don't make any sound, however everything else on discord still makes the sound with the extension active

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    That's why such things are optional...
    I have tried on discord, without issue, both with the extension enabled w/ optional permissions and without.
    Alternatively to setting in the optional permissions, I think you can toggle it on a per site basis, by right clicking the extension and clicking "always on on *.com"
    Sadly there's no method to quickly toggle the permissions on FF, I tried looking into setting a hotkey to enable/disable the extension but it wasn't working...
    The default behavior is to only operate on click (when you click the extension, otherwise it shouldn't be running)
  • by Firefox user 18304154, a year ago
  • by TimJ, a year ago
    When it's working, it does the job perfectly. However, it broke audio in some context. For example, I was listening to a podcast and if I try to listen to it from the website there's no sound, but if I access the file directly it works. But I really like the simplicity of the UI, it's exactly what I needed.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hi, what podcast/site are you trying? Have you tried giving the extension the extra permissions? "Important: To add functionality to more websites, the permission "all_urls" was necessary, however with the recent update to manifest v3, it's optional. If the extension can't access audio on a certain site do the following: Right click the extension, click "manage extension", click the permission tab, allow "Access your data for all websites". This is a necessary permission to access iframes. The extension is open source and fully adheres to this repository. There's no form of analytics in this extension. So don't be afraid of the permissions."
  • by Tim, a year ago
    I'd like a feature to add a combination of "site domain+volume setting" to the addon.
    So it automatically adjusts the volume down if I open this domain/any site on it.
  • by Firefox user 14198120, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 18273935, a year ago
  • by NiyaShy, a year ago
    Works 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 :)
  • by utente ``, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 18199724, a year ago
    the sound cut off this is not working

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Please leave further context, such as what websites you're experiencing issues on. Hope to hear from you, hopefully we can resolve your issues.
  • by Firefox user 17706985, a year ago
    Best sound booster!
  • by Becoming, a year ago
    Get 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.
  • by Gabriel, a year ago
    Pretty much the best Volume Controller in Firefox that I've found while also being pretty lightweight and straightforward.
  • by Rafael39934, a year ago
  • by SmithM, a year ago
  • by Guilherme Rosa, a year ago
    after giving permission to access the data on visited websites it's working fine. Simple but great extension
  • by DooMWhite, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 17167318, a year ago
    Generally pretty good, doesn't seem to work on https://www.songsterr.com/ though

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hey! 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.
  • by aloola, a year ago
  • by NBPE1997, 2 years ago
    The 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!

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    You're welcome!
  • by fam, 2 years ago
  • by king kong, 2 years ago
    U 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 2 years ago
    Its 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.
  • by TigerNightmare, 2 years ago
    When 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 2 years ago
    Default 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.