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Native HLS Playback users statistics
By Gaetan Hervouet · Chrome Web Store · Workflow & Planning
Allow the browser to play HLS video urls (m3u8) 'natively'
Native HLS Playback has approximately 200,000 recorded users on Chrome Web Store, ranking #129 of 6,672 tracked listings.
Rating: 3.90 / 5 from 246 ratings
About Native HLS Playback
Allow the browser to play HLS video urls (m3u8) 'natively'
This extension is a wrapper around the awesome hlsjs library: https://github.com/video-dev/hls.js
Clicking on the extension icon will let you play any m3u8 embedded as a video html element in the current page.
New: type m3u8, then tab, then your m3u8 URL to play the URL in the extension.
Features: Enable/Disable the url catcher by clicking on the icon. Enable hls.js debug mode in the extension settings. Switch between hls.js 0.14.x to 1.6.x in the settings. Now supports subtitles! Switch between zoom and native video size in the options. Display timed metadata in the console
Default player is now hls.js/1.6.10.
Description from the Chrome Web Store listing.
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Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Ranking history
Ratings over time
Listing placement
Listing placement
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Each band is one page of 20. Users on a linear scale. Placement is projected from users, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Recent observations
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Data source
Covers every Chrome Web Store extension with at least 100 users, found through the store's public sitemap. User counts are read from public listing pages. The 10% most-used extensions are refreshed daily, the next 40% weekly and the next 40% monthly; the least-used 10% are not refreshed. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/native-hls-playback/emnphkkblegpebimobpbekeedfgemhof. First seen Nov 2, 2026; last successful collection Nov 2, 2026. See the methodology.