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Media player seek distance

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Hi,

I want to decrease the media player seek distance from fifteen seconds to something like three seconds. Is there any way to do this?

Hi, I want to decrease the media player seek distance from fifteen seconds to something like three seconds. Is there any way to do this?

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Is this the time for right arrow and left arrow presses? There's no way to configure that currently.

A bug was filed a couple years ago, but there was disagreement on whether to add a preference or change the default or neither or both.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474149

As a workaround, you could take a look at this extension, but it doesn't intercept the arrow keys, it uses its own shortcut keys for advance and rewind:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/videospeed/

(I don't know whether an extension can intercept the arrow keys.)

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Chosen Solution

Is this the time for right arrow and left arrow presses? There's no way to configure that currently.

A bug was filed a couple years ago, but there was disagreement on whether to add a preference or change the default or neither or both.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474149

As a workaround, you could take a look at this extension, but it doesn't intercept the arrow keys, it uses its own shortcut keys for advance and rewind:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/videospeed/

(I don't know whether an extension can intercept the arrow keys.)

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The extension seems to do what I want, thanks!