Off Topic Erome Player Shortcuts — Chrome extension (v1.4 stable + v1.5 beta)

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Erome Player Shortcuts — Chrome extension (v1.4 stable + v1.5 beta)

Hey everyone,

I put together a small Chrome extension (with some help from AI) that adds YouTube-style keyboard shortcuts and a few quality-of-life features to erome.com's video player. It's a personal project, free, and doesn't touch or download anything from the site — it only controls the native video element in your browser.

Since it's not something Chrome Web Store will host (adult content), it's a manual install: unzip it and load it as an unpacked extension. Takes about a minute.

Languages: the extension auto-detects your browser's language. English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Brazil) are supported — no settings to change.

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v1.4 — Stable

Keyboard shortcuts

J / L        Seek back / forward 10s
K / Space    Play / pause
← / →        Seek back / forward 5s
↑ / ↓        Volume up / down
M            Mute / unmute
F            Fullscreen
0-9          Jump to 0%, 10%, 20% ... 90% of the video
, / .        Decrease / increase playback speed

The "active" video is whichever one your mouse is over. If none, it falls back to whatever's currently playing, or the most visible video on screen.

Remembers your settings across tabs
Volume, mute state, and playback speed are saved automatically and applied to any video you open afterward, in any tab.

Resumes where you left off
Each video (by URL) remembers the timestamp you stopped at and picks up right there next time, with a small "Resumed from 2:15" indicator. If you were within the last 5 seconds of the video, it just starts fresh instead.

Estimated album upload date
Erome doesn't show an upload date anywhere on the page, but each file in an album is served with a "?v=<timestamp>" parameter that corresponds to when it was uploaded. The extension reads that and shows a small dismissible badge (top-right) like:

Uploaded (estimated): September 14, 2026

Worth noting: it's an estimate inferred from that parameter, not an official field — if erome changes how it builds those URLs, this could stop working.

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v1.5.1 — Beta (opt-in, feedback wanted)

Animated thumbnail previews for single-video albums

On listing pages (home, profiles, search results), hovering over an album's thumbnail for about a third of a second now shows a short, muted, looping preview of the video playing right on top of the thumbnail — similar to YouTube's hover preview. It only kicks in when the album contains exactly one file and that file is a video; photo albums and multi-file albums are left untouched.

How it works under the hood: on hover, the extension fetches the album's page in the background and checks how many files it has, using the same detection method as the upload-date feature above.

This is still beta, so a few things to know before you try it:

• It depends on erome.com's current page structure. If they change it, this feature may just silently stop finding previews (nothing should break, it'll just do nothing).
• Each triggered preview is an extra network request (the album's page + the video itself), so on a slow connection there might be a short delay before it starts playing.
• If you'd rather not have it running while it's in beta, there's a flag at the top of content.js — set ENABLE_HOVER_PREVIEW_BETA to false and reload the extension.

If you try the beta, I'd appreciate hearing back: which pages you tested it on (home / profile / search), whether previews showed up where expected, and any weirdness with sizing/position.

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Installation

1. Download and unzip the file.
2. Go to chrome://extensions
3. Turn on Developer mode (top right).
4. Click Load unpacked.
5. Select the unzipped folder.
6. Open erome.com and try it out.

Feedback and bug reports welcome — this is a hobby project made with some AI assistance, so no promises on turnaround, but I'll keep improving it based on what people run into.