Deprecated: Improved Video Player for Twitch (Twitch 5)

Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd) has returned and the extension is back to the Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alternate-player-for-twit/bhplkbgoehhhddaoolmakpocnenplmhf

Thus, my development stops from here and I will only update for my own needs.

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Old description:

The Twitch 5 extension updated for Chrome, all credit goes to Alexander Choporov (CoolCmd).

To get this extension running (if you're a dev), follow these steps:

1. Download the ZIP archive of the repository.
2. Unpack somewhere.

Chrome
Open chrome://extensions Check the Developer mode checkbox Click on the Load unpacked extension button Select the folder where you unpacked the ZIP

Changes vs. Original

The last available Chrome extension source code is from 2017. Alexander is still updating the extension and does a great job. Why Google removed it from the Webstore is unknown (I'd guess either icon copyright or Twitch claimed copyright on the name of the extension).

So I did the following:

• Took the manifest from the last Chrome version, removed some sketchy permissions
• Checked for sketchy URLs (There are none!)
• Ported the latest version from the Firefox Addon Store to Chrome (from February 2018)

More Technical:

• Enabled ASM (by replacing russian code, that Chrome somehow did not like)
• Fixed CSS
• Added a few other performance tweaks (using CSS, e.g. contain)