Why did you uninstall? 🥺

[dvlden]

Thank you for trying UltraWideo.
Could you please tell me, why did you uninstall the extension?

To reply, you must create an account on GitHub, but it's a quick process that would mean a world to me.

[jebug29]

Suddenly closing the source of the extension in addition to the rebrand is enough to make me no longer want it. I found the extension extremely useful for viewing video on a 4:3 monitor, but I dislike installing extensions which aren't open source due to previous cases where I've had extensions that were updated to include malware and weren't removed from the Chrome Store for months. This could still happen with FOSS software, of course, but for now the discomfort is enough for me to remove the extension unless I have a desperate need for the use case again. I vehemontly disagree with the description on the main page that says having the software as open source had no value. The value is user trust, and suddenly switching to closed source betrays that. I'm sure there's no bad intention or anything, but it's a disconcerting change on the user's part.

Just as a side note, I found it much preferrable having the extension grey itself out when off rather than having "OFF" in large text as I liked to keep it pinned in Chrome, and the text feels offputting and distracting. Also having Chrome handle the extension shortcuts does make more sense, but there should be a link in the extension dropdown itself where the information once was to direct the user to that menu rather than only being in the onboarding page.

[dvlden]

@jebug29

Thank you for your input.
Since there will be pro features that require a payment in the future, I had to make it closed-source.

Since all prior versions were open source, I thought I have gained enough user's trust, to know that v3 and forward will not contain any malware or ads.

I'm sorry that you and some other users feel this way, but there's nothing I can do about it.

How would you feel if Pro version users would actually have access to the source code?

Regarding grayscale, it's hard nowdays because browsers support themes out of the box - natively and there's light and dark mode too, so it's not self adaptable. Having badge is what made most sense to me, to fix that problem.

Yes, I like that idea for shortcuts. I wanted to keep it configurable within popup, but use Browser settings, but that's not possible. It's a bit hard to make useful information about this per browser, since there's no native way of detecting browser, except for Firefox. I wish if I could link them to url schema directly, that would open keyboard shortcuts for UW only, but isn't doable either.

If you know any extension that achieve similar effect to what I described, please link me to it.

Best regards,
Nenad.

[jordanranson]

Sorry but closing previously open source software is always a bad look. I think jebug29 put it better than I could:

I vehemontly disagree with the description on the main page that says having the software as open source had no value. The value is user trust, and suddenly switching to closed source betrays that. I'm sure there's no bad intention or anything, but it's a disconcerting change on the user's part.

This along with the new UI is also while I will be uninstalling. Sorry :/

[dvlden]

Had to be done as the product will no longer be free, but freemium.
I'm sorry some of you may feel that way, but I understand.

EDIT:
Sorry did not catch the second part. Is there something wrong with the new UI?
@jordanranson

[DaBlitzStein]

Sorry but I will no pay for pro features. I am not happy with closed-source extensions that are not managed by firefox and that needs to acces to all my data and navigation. Not worth the risk.
Also changing licensing, apart from being ilegal if it comes from a gpl-like licensing, it is a very untrusty move.

[miilv]

Stoped working for my ultrawide monitor on mac. The video positions off center and zooming crops video on bottom left.

[dvlden]

On which platforms is this or is it everywhere? Would you mind recording your screen and drag/drop it here with a comment? Thanks!

[LunarCommands]

Thank you for trying UltraWideo. Could you please tell me, why did you uninstall the extension?

To reply, you must create an account on GitHub, but it's a quick process that would mean a world to me.

After some time, full screen mode turns off. The F key or clicking full screen mode with the mouse does not work either. You need to go to extensions, disable and re-enable the plug-in and then it works again, but only temporarily. Very frustrating. The browser is Arc on Mac, it happens on every player, YouTube, Netlifx etc.

[dvlden]

That is weird. I never experienced this personally.
Do you happen to know if any other extensions you may have installed, are causing this conflict?

Would you mind testing in incognito, by allowing only UltraWideo to run in that mode or disable all extensions and try UltraWideo only in regular mode?

[FlawwyNX]

I just bought a 16:9 monitor when my 4:3 monitor stopped working
(btw, its nice extension!)

[dvlden]

Thank you for clarification! Do you not find it useful for 16:9 screen anymore? I'd say it still helps to remove black bars on 16:9 monitors as well.

[Hellrazer001]

Windows 11, Firefox 121.0.1 64bit. 21:9 monitor
I went to watch Youtube today and it was already in Ultrawide mode, and I usually press A S D to cycle through modes, nothing happened, I managed to get it back to normal by the Ultrwideo icon, but keys do not work any more and the icon method is a pain.

I have no idea why it has stopped working for keys.

Edit, I am using Ultrawideo again, I watched your new video , and have made the shortcut key ALT + A,, apparently firefox is now forcing me to use ALT or Shift with a key.

thank you for your helpful program.

[dvlden]

Hello and thank you for your feedback.

That is true. In previous versions, I had built-in mechanism for keyboard shortcuts, which was not following best practices of developing an extension.

So I had to change it now in the new update and make it configurable through the browser itself.
This way, we're now getting feedback from browser for:

• Reserved shortcuts
• Shortcut conflicts by which extension

I know it's not as easy to configure as before, but it's for the best. And we are configuring these once in our lives, I'd say.

[gustavoghsena]

Shortcuts (Ctrl Shift X and Ctrl Shift Z) stopped working and I didn't like that V3 made the extension closed source and requires full access to all sites.

[dvlden]

Hello!

• Shortcuts are configurable from browser itself.
• Closed source may be permanent. I may give access to the repository to pro users at some point, but still have't decided.
• It required permission to all websites before v3 as well.

Best regards,
Nenad.

[enginmanap]

I have a 32/9 monitor, and I want to get rid of letterboxing, meaning I want to watch at 21/9 most of the time. It doesn't work like that. I am guessing because the videosteam is always 16/9, but it doesn't matter as my usecase is not covered.

[dvlden]

Assuming you play 16:9 video, does it take entire space of your screen or you still have letterboxing? If you still have letterboxing, assuming UltraWideo can come to the rescue.

Not sure what you mean by having 16:9 video acting as 21:9, since that's not possible. The extension doesn't take the video and somehow transform it to another AR. Instead it takes what it was served with and tries to stretch or upscale (depending on the selected mode) to fill your entire screen.

Assuming it works, but you lose too much content, because screen is too wide... I'd suggest using custom scaling X/Y and modify the video size to at least have less black bars than you actually do now.

If you can explain to me better what you meant by "want to watch at 21:9" let me know and maybe I can figure something out.

[enginmanap]

EX what is the aspect ratio of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmk7pyla-4Y

The video stream is 16/9, but the actual video in it is 21/9, with letterboxing. I wanted to use this plugin to zoom only enough to remove the letterboxing (which means I will still have black bars on the sides since my monitor is 32/9) but it tries to zoom/strech to 32/9 so I either have an extremely stretched video with black bars on top and bottom, or I miss a lot of the video since it zooms too much to fit 32/9.

[dvlden]

Aham, I see... Have you tried Normal mode with X/Y scaling? Enter the values that satisfy your needs and you'll achieve what you're aiming for.

[ekasprzak]

Closed source (I read your explanation and understand it, but still, I found another open-source alternative).

[dvlden]

Fair enough. Would you be kind and share that OSS with me, because I want to be aware of the alternatives? Thanks!

[ekasprzak]

Sure, now I'm using Ultrawidify

[KlosiakMK]

Uninstalled the extension because keyboard shortcuts stopped working in the latest version.

[dvlden]

Depending on your browser, keyboard shortcuts configuration is now in the place where it belongs.
If you are using Chromium based browser, just use this as URL:

chrome://extensions/shortcuts

If you are on Firefox, use this official tutorial:
Firefox Guide

[cotimms]

Uninstalled due to not being able to configure which domains this has data access to. For example, BetterTTV only requires data access to twitch.tv and optionally youtube.com domains. Sponsorblock also does this nicely - they only require data permission for youtube.com, but give the user an additional option to enable data access for all domains. So I know it is possible because other extensions are offering this kind of permission customisation.

I see you made a comment 4 months ago in response to a negative review with someone asking if access to ALL websites is really required: "Yes, I am sure. Full access is required so that the extension can inject its functionality on every page. Creating a long list of like 1000s of domains that are video streaming platforms world-wide is quite bad and aside there would be no way of knowing if the website has embedded videos on it.

So yes, quite sure it needs full access."

Personally I would feel more comfortable and safe with this extension. It seems I am not alone on this with it being closed-source and not verified by firefox - being verified by firefox would also mitigate this issue entirely. It would be nice for users to have a toggle-able option to choose whether they want to enable data access for ALL domains, and also add toggle-able options to only grant data access for popular domains such as youtube.com, netflix.com, twitch.tv, whatever other sites you feel are popular.

I understand not being able to add an optional permission for every possible website, that is not practical. Hence the toggle for enabling data access to all websites. Maybe only have youtube.com (or whatever you feel is the most popular domain people would use this extension) as the required permission, then add whatever other popular websites you want as an optional permission, in addition to ALL domains being another optional permission.

In my case, I would like to only give this extension access to youtube and twitch and have it restricted for all other domains. If I could do that I would use it. For users who use sites other than those, they can customise what they want to grant access to and if it's not listed as an optional permission they can just grant access to all domains. I think that would be a good balance of giving the user some better peace of mind and as a developer not being able to have a permission toggle for many thousands of websites out there. Hope you find this feedback useful!

[dvlden]

Thank you for taking time to write this descriptive reply.
I will read more about this and see how is it achievable, as I am currently unaware of this possibility.

Sounds like I am able to ask user for full permission or to grant permission to the site they are currently on? I'll check it out and learn more about it. If it's possible and won't break how the extension works with required access - I'll implement this.

[cotimms]

No problem thank you for the consideration! I'm not sure about the possibility to grant permission to the site a user is currently on, that would be fantastic if it is possible - it might be limited to making specific toggle-able options for popular websites, like one for netflix, a separate one for youtube, another one for twitch, etc. (as many as you find reasonable/realistic). Then just have a toggle-able option for enabling access to all websites on the top that a user can toggle if the website they wish to use the extension for is not already listed as an option. This way you don't have to worry about adding a separate permission for literally every website with embedded videos which is obviously not possible, and the user has some customisation about the domains they can grant or revoke data access to. Something like this is a good example of what I personally like to see for permission management in an extension

[dvlden]

Just did my research. I started by checking source code of BetterTTV and then dug deeper on the topic.

This would be fine, if UW was limited to some specific sites. So I could make it required to access data on "YouTube", but then a couple more platforms listed as optional and request this optional permissions on install or update screens. Aside, as seen from your screenshots, browser would offer a main toggle that would allow extension to access all websites.

However, I believe that this would lead to many negative reviews, considering that not many people know how to even configure shortcuts in the browser, let alone enable the extension to work for all websites.

When I finish main pages and core logic for Pro users, I'll try to create a page where users can vote on features and leave comments. Perhaps not many users use that many platforms, so maybe it's possible to limit UW to 10 websites for example. But at the moment, I do not want to take that risk blindly.

Instead, I'll choose to let UW rely on current permission of "access all websites" until further notice.

What I described was wishful thinking, but unfortunately dynamic host permission is not yet supported. It'd be awesome if extension could request for permission for each website on the fly, without being annoying to the user.

I have also emailed Firefox regarding "Recommended" badge, but they never responded. This is my third email to them. On Chrome, the UW extension received this badge of trustworthy.

Typing back and forth here, so as you may see, I am lost. Not sure which direction to go, to satisfy all my users 😞

[cotimms]

It does make sense that a majority of your users wouldn't know to look at permissions if they think it's "not working" and instead of digging deeper would simply uninstall and leave a negative review. I understand completely where you are coming from and really appreciate the communication!

The screenshot I added of "youtube high definition" did not have any required permissions - only the optional ones listed. Unless I am missing something, it seems possible to have only optional permissions and no required ones. "access data for all websites" could be toggled on by default for those users who are less inclined to look at settings which would mitigate that issue, but still with the ability to toggle it off and additional options to limit to certain domains for say the top 10 popular video websites for users who want to customise permissions.

Maybe the best of both worlds, I know I'm not the only one who is having these privacy concerns even if it is still the minority since I have seen some negative reviews for this extension about it being closed source (which is fine and understandable) and required to access data on all websites. Either way I am not an extension developer so can't say what might work best for you obviously. Thanks again for all the communication and I am sure you will make the best decision for your extension :)

[knowsshit]

I have a 32:9 monitor and too much is cropped from the top and bottom of the video with this extension.

I was just looking for a way to easily crop away embedded black bars from the top and bottom of a video (not cropping or streching the actual video content).

It seems like I might be able to that by manually use the scale factor in this extension and equally increase the values for x and y until the black bars in the top are gone, but that is way too tedious. It would help if I could use a hotkey to scale/zoom the video until the embedded black bars on the top/bottom went away.

[dvlden]

Hello @knowsshit ! Funny username... 😄
I realised that I can actually set more keybindings, just not suggest them. As per browser specs, this is the limitation, because one extension can overtake way too many shortcuts, which is understandable.

So keyboard shortcuts to scale up/down X and scale up/down Y will be coming soon, but you'd need to configure them to however you see fit. Might make it easier to scale this way?

I've been thinking lately about dropping upscale & stretch modes and just rely on scaling instead, which would result in more Modes.

• Normal (no scaling applied)
• Stretch (scale X/Y and ignore aspect ratio)
• Upscale (scale X/Y and keep aspect ratio)

And then some hybrid modes, for cases like yours:

• Proportional X scaling
• Proportional Y scaling

However this would require more rewrite, so will be coming, but no estimation yet.

Thank you for your feedback tho, it means a lot!

[knowsshit]

Thanks for the reply! I installed Ultrawidify and now everything seems to play correctly without any intervention.

[VoidWalk3r]

Honestly, I have thoroughly enjoyed your extension. Unfortunately, I no longer have my beloved ultrawide monitor and have been considering removing the extension because I do not utilize it and am decluttering my computer. However, I must say that during its use, I thoroughly enjoyed it and it worked quite well.

I did want to mention, after reading some of the comments below, that I understand both sides of the argument when it comes to open source versus closed source. Personally, I am a proponent of open source, but if I still had my ultrawide monitor, I would have kept the extension. Ultimately, it is your project and your decision.

I am uninstalling the extension not because of the open source versus closed source debate, but simply because it no longer fits my needs. The extension worked perfectly fine, but my circumstances have changed. Great job on the extension so far. Perhaps if I acquire another ultrawide monitor in the future, I may return.

[dvlden]

Wow, powerful comment! It keeps me really motivated.

Personally, I also sold UW monitor, but I am still using the extension on my laptop (14" screen). It's just a personal preference to not have any black-bars, even if they are very minimal.

Thank you for kind words and I do really hope that you come back to it someday, and find it useful again!

[Hedney]

It used to work great, but now it just stopped working on Disney+.

I've already tried reinstalling and nothing worked

[dvlden]

Disney+ has changed their player internally and now it's near impossible to make it work.
Luckily I made it possible for UW and it's going to be released soon.

Watch for #15 !

[christinacain]

I tried using this for Netflix on my ultrawide monitor but it didn't work

[dvlden]

After the installation you have to:

• reload already open tab(s) where you want to use the extension or close browser and start over
• put the netflix player in fullscreen

Can you do those and confirm to me that still nothing happens?

[romayojr]

Because it was showing a blank screen no matter what I did to troubleshoot it on YT using Chrome

[canhlinh]

feeling unsafe.

[dvlden]

@romayojr care to record a video for me?

[dvlden]

@canhlinh You were supposed to create new comment, not reply to someone else's.
However, please do let me know, why does it feel unsafe and what made you feel that way about it?

[romayojr]

@romayojr care to record a video for me?

i reinstalled it and it seems to be working again. thanks

[canhlinh]

@canhlinh You were supposed to create new comment, not reply to someone else's. However, please do let me know, why does it feel unsafe and what made you feel that way about it?

@dvlden
Firstly, thank you for your effort to create this extension to let people enjoy movies.
This is my improvisation comment. I don't think I will get your answer quickly.

I enjoyed using this extension for a while. But suddenly, my email password was leaked.
I don't know the exact reason, but just for sure, I removed this extension from Chrome.

It was a sensitive time for me. Haha. Sorry man.

[dvlden]

Thanks for the feedback!
I assure you that the extension does not record anything, nor collect any data. No clues how/why would Chrome/Firefox extension stores approve an extension that may do such harm to the users. Are you sure that it came from an extension at all?

It's also easy to inspect these cases as network requests should come/go into the extension.

I wish you best of luck in finding how your account was stolen and to recover from that damage. Let me know if you have any questions related to UltraWideo and I'll do my best to answer them to you.

[Revan7even]

Doesn't work properly on a 32:9 monitor for Amazon Prime video with black bars at the top and bottom of a 21:9 video to create a 16:9 frame (Fallout TV series). Upscale cuts off desired parts of the video.

[KrappRamiro]

Ah, just not using it

[Brandon98SE]

No longer needed. Thanks for the great extension though! :D