[Firefox] It breaks YouTube's hold to play at 2x speed feature

[lilydjwg]

Without this extension, holding left mouse button on a YouTube video, it will play at 2x speed. But with this extension, it only plays at 2x for a fraction of second and then continue with normal speed.

[polywock]

Global Speed is very controlling about the speed. It's very hard to determine if the user intended to change the speed or the website is doing it on it's own. That's why Global Speed requires the user change the speed through Global Speed's controls.

Personally, I use shortcuts to accomplish same thing. You can create a shortcut that sets speed to 4x. The first time you press it, speed will go to 4x. Second time you press it, it will go back to the original speed.

[lilydjwg]

Thanks, a shortcut works, except it takes some time to figure a good shortcut as I have so many of them from different places.

Can't global speed just let the website change speed? There is an option called "ghost mode". I thought it meant that.

[polywock]

Ghost mode actually blocks the website from changing the speed at all 😆

[polywock]

The next version of Global Speed will have a potential solution (might take a month or so).