YouTube Playback Buttons

by Dave Tavres · Functionality & UI

Manifest V3 Free

View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Adds overlay buttons to YouTube videos for fast forwarding, rewinding, and changing playback speed.

Users

−1 in 30 days

Rating

5.0 / 5

unchanged in 30 days

Ratings

0 in 30 days

Store rank

#201K

#168K among extensions

Version

1.33

updated 12 May 2026

Users

monthly, 5 months

Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 9 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 5 months

Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About YouTube Playback Buttons

This extension adds overlay buttons to YouTube videos, to fast forward and rewind the playing video, as well as speed up and slow down playback speed buttons. All this is doing, is calling the keyboard shortcuts of RIGHT-ARROW (fast forward 5 seconds,) LEFT-ARROW (rewind 5 seconds,) SHIFT+> (increase playback speed by 25%,) and SHIFT+< (decrease playback speed by 25%.)