What's New in
Velocity

Netflix popup speed dial now reflects the correct video — The popup's speed dial and slider always show the speed of the main video you're watching. Previously a small autoplaying preview on the page could briefly hijack the readout — showing ~1.25× while your video kept playing at the speed you actually set.

Fixed floating overlay flickering on Instagram and other feed sites — The speed overlay no longer flickers away when you move your mouse toward it on a full-size reel. Hover behavior across stacked feeds is now reliable, with no duplicate overlays when scrolling from one reel to the next.

Fixed background and autoplay videos collapsing on Squarespace sites — The speed controller could cause a full-bleed "fill" video to collapse and disappear on sites built with Squarespace and similar page builders. Velocity now keeps the video visible while speed control continues to work normally.

Settings tab — New dedicated tab for audio pitch, auto-start speed, per-site memory, and reset controls. Popup widened to 380px to comfortably fit all four tabs.

Remember Speed Per Site — Each website can optionally remember the last speed you used there. Enable in the new Settings tab.

Mouse-Wheel Speed Control — Hover the floating overlay and scroll to adjust playback speed without opening the popup.

Preserve Audio Pitch — Keeps audio pitch natural at any playback speed. Toggle off in Settings for the chipmunk easter egg.

Show/Hide Speed Overlay hotkey — Press V to toggle the floating controller on/off on any page.

Quick-exclude button — Add the current site to your exclusion list with one tap from the Exclusions tab — no typing required.

Reset All Settings — Restore every setting to its default via a two-step confirmation in the Settings tab.

Excluded-site indicator — A red OFF badge appears on the toolbar icon and a banner inside the popup whenever Velocity is paused on the current site.

Security camera footage review — Speed through hours of Google Home and Wyze recordings directly in the browser. Neither platform has native playback speed control — Velocity fills that gap entirely.

Fixed X.com (Twitter) speed snap-back — Videos no longer revert to a lower speed after rapid speed adjustments.

Fixed stale speed dial on multi-frame pages — Popup now shows the correct speed even when pages contain ad iframes or embedded frames.

Fixed SPA speed reset on new video — YouTube and other single-page apps now correctly reset speed when navigating to a new video.

Fixed TikTok feed overlay after scrolling — Speed overlay now appears on every clip, not just the first one after a scroll.

Fixed shortcuts firing during modifier combos — Keyboard shortcuts (S, D, etc.) no longer accidentally trigger during Ctrl/Cmd/Alt combinations or IME input.

Fixed per-site overlay toggle reset — The per-site show/hide preference now persists across page reloads.

Fixed silent abort in sandboxed iframes — Resolved an error that was silently preventing speed control inside certain embedded iframe players.

Outfit font bundled locally — No external request to Google Fonts on popup open. Faster load, works fully offline.

Popup widened 340 → 380px — Four tabs now fit comfortably without crowding.

Shortcut binder restricted to printable characters — Prevents accidental binding to modifier or function keys.

Auto-Start Speed — Set a preferred default playback speed applied automatically to every new video. No more manually adjusting on each page load. Configurable in the Control tab.

Hardened playback rate enforcement — Protected against malicious page scripts attempting to inject out-of-range speed values via the YouTube player bridge.

Popup UI compacted — All settings now fit on screen without scrolling, within Chrome's 600px popup height limit.

Extension renamed — Now listed as "Velocity - Universal Video Speed Controller" on the Chrome Web Store for better discoverability.

Auto-start Speed — Set a default speed applied to every new video. Configure it in the Control tab — videos on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and everywhere else now open at your preferred speed automatically.

Hardened YouTube player sync script — Protected against page scripts that could dispatch speed-change events with unclamped values.

Guarded internal speed setter against non-numeric input — Prevents unexpected errors from malformed or externally injected speed values.

Popup control panel redesigned — All settings now fit comfortably within the visible area — no more scrolling to reach bottom settings.

Setting description text improved — Slightly larger and better spaced for readability.

Google Home / WebRTC camera streams no longer freeze Chrome — Live streams are released immediately after detection. A loop guard prevents re-injection, and the speed overlay is suppressed on non-seekable streams.

Instagram and TikTok +/− buttons no longer pause video — Fixed a stacking-context and z-index conflict. The toolbar now escapes to a fixed layer above social media UI chrome, so pointer events reach the correct target.

TikTok volume slider no longer blocked by hidden toolbar — Toolbar sets pointer-events: none when hidden, so it no longer captures clicks meant for underlying controls.

TikTok volume slider no longer overlapped by visible toolbar — Toolbar position is offset downward on TikTok so it doesn't cover the native volume slider when visible.

Speed overlay no longer appears on YouTube feed hover-preview thumbnails — Overlay is suppressed on video elements smaller than 210px, preventing false activations on thumbnail previews in feeds.

Site exclusions now take effect immediately without page reload — Exclusion changes are applied in real time; no reload required after adding or removing a domain.

Exclusion domain matching tightened — Matching is now exact hostname and subdomain only, preventing accidental exclusions from partial-string collisions.

Fixed memory leak with detached video elements in shadow roots — Observers and handlers are properly cleaned up when video elements are removed from the DOM inside shadow roots.

Fixed Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit hover overlay — The floating speed controller now appears instantly on hover, even when transparent click-interception overlay divs intercept pointer events before reaching the player container. The primary blocker preventing smooth operation on social media video feeds.

Immediate hide on mouse exit — Speed controller now hides instantly when your cursor leaves the video player, rather than waiting for the 3-second idle timeout. Uses bounding-box overlap detection to distinguish between "cursor moved to a sibling overlay still covering the video" and "actually left the player area."

Throttled mousemove events — Reduced clearTimeout/setTimeout churn from firing on every pixel to ~20fps (50ms gate), eliminating unnecessary timer resets on high-movement scenarios.

Throttled global mouseover capture handler — The window-level mouseover listener now throttles at ~20Hz instead of firing on every child element in the DOM. Reduces DOM traversal frequency on complex layouts without losing responsiveness.

Optimized event-driven capture hooks — Improved play, loadstart, and mouseover handlers for lazy-loaded and infinite-scroll feeds (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts).

Public showControls() and hideControls() methods — Exposed control visibility methods so global capture handlers can reliably trigger hover state on overlay-heavy sites where parent element listeners fail.

Shadow DOM traversal — Recursively traverses document boundaries and shadow roots to capture deep-nested players inside SPAs and web components, where standard extensions fail.

Dynamic speed control (0.1x – 16.0x) — Full playback rate range with a live slider, one-click presets, and keyboard hotkeys. Slider range auto-scales when speed exceeds 4.0x.

Single-key shortcut rebinding — Remap any hotkey to a single key of your choice. Smart context detection automatically disables shortcuts inside text inputs and search fields.

Frosted-glass hover toolbar — Hover any video player to reveal an overlay toolbar with speed controls, skip, and rewind. Auto-fades after 3 seconds of inactivity.

YouTube native API synchronization — Bridge events sync Velocity's speed changes directly to YouTube's internal player UI, keeping gear menus and timestamps accurate.

Domain exclusion list — Block-list specific domains from Velocity's control, with fast local matching and no remote lookups.

HUD toast overlay — On-screen speed indicator flashes briefly on every adjustment, matching the design of the extension popup dashboard.

Manifest V3 / zero background footprint — Service worker only boots on demand and fully unloads when idle. Zero persistent processes, zero telemetry, zero network requests.