Overview
Smuuvr - For a Smoother UX
Make using websites a better experience with Smuuvr! Smuuvr improves the UX (user experience) adding features and tools for popular websites, with features made to enhance specific websites like YouTube, Google, Trello, WordPress Admin, and many more. Smuuvr can automatically identify and highlight or hide premium content (ads etc), auto-hide banner ads, skip ads, widen pages for wide screen viewing, force dark-mode on any site, rotate or size videos, and more! For a more complete list of websites that Smuuvr can enhance with special add-on features, visit our website https://Smuuvr.com. Once enabled, use the Smuuvr toolbar on the right side of your browser by mousing over it or touching it. It will slide out with a list of buttons containing awesome additional features- like the ability to rotate videos or media at any 45 or 90 degree angle, make videos wider or taller, show only the video, loop video parts, play/pause or skip ahead in videos, auto-scroll thumbnails, make UIs nicer, and other things that you wouldn't normally be able to! Use Smuuvr for productivity when it's enhancing WP Admin with alphabetized navigation and search features, or Trello with the ability to minimize and auto-fade columns for better focus and less clutter. This extension is best on desktop or laptop, but is also compatible on mobile Phone, Tablet, or other any extension-enabled Chrome-based browser, like Kiwi Browser for Android! People often say, if you do not see a product for sale on a digital product, then you ARE the product, usually referring to the fact that large apps sell user data to advertisers. Well, NOT in this case. It is our philosophy that anonymity is important. So, Smuuvr does NOT collect any data about our users, sells NO data to anyone, and is probably one of the few pieces of software these days that is truly freeware! Free functionality with no expectations, no ads, and no data collection. We do NOT know who uses Smuuvr, nor what sites are visited with our plugin - completely anonymous! We value and respect our users anonymity. Google Chrome Store tracks their own basic data, but keeps it anonymous, and does tell us how many users TOTAL use the add-on, but that's it! No specifics, no histories, no user info. We do not track anyone by cookie, nor any other means to reveal data or sell your data to advertisers. Smuuvr is 100% safe and free, and you can use it safely without worry, like the good ol days. If you find an unwanted interaction of Smuuvr with any webpage, it may be a glitch or a bug. We have not tested every single website in the world, so there's always possibilities for unwanted interactions or side effects with page layouts, or hiding an ad that's not actually an ad, etc. If something like this is happening, please report the bug/glitch to us via our support Forum (free) or email us so we can fix it soon as possible! We rely on user support like this to inform us what to fix, so please don't hesitate to let us know. You may also request new features on our website, and if they're possible and not too difficult, we'll [eventually] add them to our plugin! So if you see a site you know could be improved with some small feature or adjustment, let us know and we'll add it to our dev list. We've already implemented many user requests, especially for some "special" websites out there; if you know, you know! To support this project, check our website for more ways to contribute at Smuuvr.com Please be sure to leave a review if you enjoy this plugin, or suggest new features on our website's forums or contact form. Thank You for using Smuuvr!
Sur KenningsSep 2, 2024
It works! and does exactly what I need it to! So why the lame review? It does more than I need it to. I can't save any of the settings. I want to disable some features, and the settings won't apply.
Sean PDeveloperSep 17, 2024
UPDATE: 9/30/24 - Version 1.17.5 was just released and has a number of fixes in the new Settings panel. You should be able to now turn off EVERYTHING Smuuvr does, including all style/design overrides, so that visually nothing changes, but you can still use features like Skip Video Ad from the S icon menu or maybe another feature? With some more feedback on what you're trying to do specifically, we can test it better for that use case, so let us know! Note- turning off all settings or disabling all Design/Style overrides may make some features not work right. Also, if Smuuvr is not running at all after update, try to SAVE the smuuvr options from the new options page at least one time, and then try again. In some cases, the new settings may require saving over the old ones at least one time. -------------------------------- Original Response: ------------------------------- Hi Sur, Thanks for the feedback, I can help you troubleshoot or log a bug to be fixed if there is one. You're using the new settings page, where all the features have checkboxes? And are you pressing "Save" on that page after changing some things? Test just the saving of settings: Once you change some settings and press save, you can test if it saved by closing the settings tab and opening it again, and then seeing if the checkboxes changed are still set as you left them. If not, I suspect maybe some permissions may not be allowed for the extension in chrome settings, because this check works OK for our testers... for example, I add websites to the blacklist and save it regularly without any issues... it may say what the error in the Console if you open it and press save and check if any errors are there in the log. In that case a screenshot of any error would be a great help so that we can find it to fix it. If the settings ARE saving but the feature you're trying to disable is still running, please let me know which feature and we'll log it as a bug that will get fixed promptly.
Jared LowtherDec 28, 2023
Works great - most ads are being replaced with black screen after ~1 second of playback. The only issue I see are closed captions do not show and the scrub bar is not accessible at the bottom. If a video is in another language but translated to English in the captions, I am forced to disable the extension and refresh the page. -- 6/12/2024 Edit: Author is correct with the scrub bar issue fix. Overall great active development - especially after the recent "ad blocker lockout". 5/5 would in... Show more
Sean PDeveloperJun 3, 2024
The scrub bar is issue was fixed in 1.16.0 A button was added to the logo menu (the extension icon menu) to Refresh Current Page with Smuuvr Disabled, too, so that you don't have to disable the extension to stop it from running, a lot easier. Settings are coming in 1.17.0 that will allow you do add or remove sites from the Blacklist too, so that it can be disabled permanently for any site or URL. Now that the scrub bar issue is fixed, can you check if the closed captions issue is still there? If so we will open a dev ticket for this and fix that next, but it might be fixed already after the 1.16.1 update. Thanks
Ezequiel CarvalhoDec 27, 2023
nice
Details
- Version1.17.6
- UpdatedOctober 3, 2024
- Size687KiB
- LanguagesEnglish (United States)
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