feat(playbackSpeedBoostGesture): add horizontal drag speed boost gesture

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Feature Summary:

Replaces YouTube's native 2x press-and-hold boost gesture with a horizontal drag gesture for variable playback speed
control.

How it Works

• Gesture: Left-click and drag horizontally across the player surface to temporarily adjust playback speed in discrete
  configurable segments (default 0.25x per 10px).
• Bidirectional: Dragging right increases speed; dragging left decreases speed back towards the origin.
• Release: Releasing the mouse button restores original playback speed.

Testing

1. Verified horizontal dragging boosts and lowers speed in real-time with OSD feedback.
2. Verified standard video play/pause clicks and right-click context menus work normally.
3. Reset of playback speed to original speed after mouse release

feature_speed_boost.mp4

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• New Features
  • Adjust playback speed by dragging horizontally across the player. The speed changes with the drag distance and returns to its starting value when the gesture ends.
  • Configure the gesture and its speed increment in settings. It is off by default.

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• src/types/index.ts

Walkthrough

Adds an opt-in watch-page gesture that adjusts playback speed through horizontal dragging on the player. The gesture has a configurable speed increment, bounds speed changes, and restores the starting speed when the gesture ends.

Changes

Playback Speed Boost Gesture

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature configuration and registration src/types/index.ts, src/features/playbackSpeedBoostGesture/index.metadata.ts, src/features/_registry/generatedFeatureLightManifest.ts, public/locales/en-US.json, README.md	Adds the disabled-by-default feature, its speed setting and labels, and its manifest and README entries.
Player drag and speed adjustment src/features/playbackSpeedBoostGesture/index.ts	Starts a gesture on accepted player targets. Horizontal movement adjusts playback speed by the configured increment per 10 pixels, within the minimum and maximum bounds.
Gesture completion and lifecycle src/features/playbackSpeedBoostGesture/index.ts	Restores the starting speed when the gesture ends, serializes speed updates, removes listeners when disabled, and suppresses the next player click if the gesture changed speed.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Mouse
  participant PlayerSurface
  participant MainVideo
  participant SpeedUpdateQueue
  Mouse->>PlayerSurface: Press and drag horizontally
  PlayerSurface->>MainVideo: Read current playback speed
  PlayerSurface->>SpeedUpdateQueue: Queue adjusted playback speed

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Rapid consecutive drags can leave playback at the temporary speed instead of the original one. Fix this before merging; the remaining issues are small.

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@aniTech-addict just reviewing the changes, so far looks good. My agent might spot something I didn't see

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@aniTech-addict Sorry I got busy with personal stuff, overall this is a solid contribution. The generation counter design for cancelling stale speed writes was a nice touch. Below is everything worth addressing, ordered by priority. all line refs in src/features/playbackSpeedBoostGesture/index.ts unless noted.

Maybe support for shorts could be added but for now it seems good

Bugs

1. preventNextClick can get stuck on — index.ts:133. It's only reset when the click lands inside the player, but there are paths where that click never happens: drag ends outside the player, window loses focus mid-drag (the blur listener at index.ts:39), or the feature gets disabled mid-drag (index.ts:127 removes the click listener and then calls handleMouseUp, so nothing is left to clear the flag). In all three cases the next normal click on the video gets swallowed. Fix is to reset the flag before the target check:

function stopGestureClick(event: MouseEvent) {
	if (!preventNextClick) return;
	preventNextClick = false;
	if (!getPlayerTarget(event)) return;
	event.preventDefault();
	event.stopImmediatePropagation();
}

2. Normal clicks queue a pointless speed write — index.ts:111. handleMouseUp always queues the revert, even when hasMoved is false — so every click-to-pause on the player runs a full setPlayerSpeed round-trip (awaits getVideoData, writes the same rate back). setPlayerSpeed also calls noteUserInput(), which touches the manual-override timestamps Forced Playback Speed relies on. Just guard it:

if (!hasMoved) {
	preventNextClick = false;
	return;
}
preventNextClick = true;
queueSpeedUpdate(initialSpeed, gestureGeneration);

3. Edge case, low priority: if you press again while the revert from the previous drag is still sitting in speedUpdateQueue (each queued write awaits a getVideoData() round-trip, so a fast drag can leave a few pending), the gestureGeneration++ at index.ts:60 invalidates the revert and it silently never runs. The next gesture then reads the still-boosted video.playbackRate at index.ts:59 as its baseline, so from then on it reverts to the boosted speed instead of the original. Only reachable when the queue is backed up, so not a blocker — if you want to close it, keep a pendingRevertSpeed when queuing the revert and use that as the baseline in handleMouseDown when it's still pending.

Confirm with maintainers

4. Reverting to initialSpeed on mouseup (index.ts:111) makes this a temporary hold-to-boost, same as the YouTube gesture it replaces. Pretty sure that's the intent given the i18n title, but the README's "horizontal dragging to adjust playback speed" reads like the speed should stick after release. Worth a quick confirmation. If temporary is right, maybe flash the OSD once on the revert so the snap-back isn't invisible.

Worth considering

5. The suppression at index.ts:57 is broader than it needs to be. getPlayerTarget at index.ts:45 only excludes .ytp-chrome-bottom and .ytp-ce-element, so mousedown gets killed on the settings menu, title bar, pause overlay etc. Most of YouTube's UI acts on click so it survives, but things like "click outside closes the settings menu" may break — menu stays open while a boost drag starts on the video underneath. Might be worth excluding the menu/chrome classes too.

6. showOSD at index.ts:93 gets called every 10px of drag, and each call constructs a whole OnScreenDisplayManager — fresh canvas plus forced layout reads in its setupCanvas. Fast drags will do this dozens of times a second. The DOM canvas does get reused so it's not fatal, but throttling the OSD updates would keep fast drags smooth. (playbackSpeedButtons and scrollWheelSpeedControl also call it per step — you'd just be the first at mousemove frequency.)

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@aniTech-addict The testing code is very near completion, once that's done I'll have you go over this and implement tests. I still need to merge it to dev once all is good. Last run 869 passed / 2 failed / 5 flaky / 3 skipped (1.2h) of 879 tests

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1. reventNextClick can get stuck on — index.ts:133. It's only reset when the click lands inside the player, but there are paths where that click never happens: drag ends outside the player, window loses focus mid-drag (the blur listener at index.ts:39), or the feature gets disabled mid-drag (index.ts:127 removes the click listener and then calls handleMouseUp, so nothing is left to clear the flag). In all three cases the next normal click on the video gets swallowed. Fix is to reset the flag be

1. I did notice it after a while, but wasn't sure about what was causing this behavior.
   thankyou for pointing out the exact cause, i'll fix it

Normal clicks queue a pointless speed write — index.ts:111.

2. possible fix

• Update handleMouseUp so the existing cleanup and generation invalidation always run.
• Only call queueSpeedUpdate(initialSpeed, ...) when hasMoved is true.
• Preserve preventNextClick behavior for drag gestures and leave ordinary click-to-pause behavior unchanged.

3. Understood, if you dont mind could u also explain how were u able to detect the edge case bcz i dont think i would have been able to (i m still a newbie)

4. Yes, the feature is supposed to be a Temporary Hold-to-boost feature, the reason for disabling the native YT gesture was to avoid conflict.

maybe flash the OSD once on the revert so the snap-back isn't invisible.

Will Do

mousedown gets killed on the settings menu, title bar, pause overlay etc.

I'll look into it, would take some time as i aint sure about how i should tackle these for now.

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I just think the actual locale text may be a bit confusing, maybe a reference to the adjustment being temporary is needed

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I just think the actual locale text may be a bit confusing, maybe a reference to the adjustment being temporary is needed

I'll update the locale string to make it clear that it's temporary
Maybe changing it something like:
"Hold to temporarily boost playback speed" or "Hold/Drag for temporary playback speed boost")

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I just think the actual locale text may be a bit confusing, maybe a reference to the adjustment being temporary is needed

I'll update the locale string to make it clear that it's temporary Maybe changing it something like: "Hold to temporarily boost playback speed" or "Hold/Drag for temporary playback speed boost")

the first sounds good

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1. reventNextClick can get stuck on — index.ts:133. It's only reset when the click lands inside the player, but there are paths where that click never happens: drag ends outside the player, window loses focus mid-drag (the blur listener at index.ts:39), or the feature gets disabled mid-drag (index.ts:127 removes the click listener and then calls handleMouseUp, so nothing is left to clear the flag). In all three cases the next normal click on the video gets swallowed. Fix is to reset the flag be

1. I did notice it after a while, but wasn't sure about what was causing this behavior.
   thankyou for pointing out the exact cause, i'll fix it

Normal clicks queue a pointless speed write — index.ts:111.

2. possible fix

• Update handleMouseUp so the existing cleanup and generation invalidation always run.
• Only call queueSpeedUpdate(initialSpeed, ...) when hasMoved is true.
• Preserve preventNextClick behavior for drag gestures and leave ordinary click-to-pause behavior unchanged.

3. Understood, if you dont mind could u also explain how were u able to detect the edge case bcz i dont think i would have been able to (i m still a newbie)
4. Yes, the feature is supposed to be a Temporary Hold-to-boost feature, the reason for disabling the native YT gesture was to avoid conflict.

maybe flash the OSD once on the revert so the snap-back isn't invisible.

Will Do

mousedown gets killed on the settings menu, title bar, pause overlay etc.

I'll look into it, would take some time as i aint sure about how i should tackle these for now.

1. No worries, it's one of those bugs that's easy to spot in code but hard to hit in real use, since it needs a pretty unusual click sequence. When you fix it, you might also want to reset preventNextClick at the top of handleMouseDown. Belt and suspenders, even if some future path leaks the flag again, the next press clears it before anything else runs.

2. That's exactly right, cleanup and the generation bump always run, only the revert write is gated on hasMoved. One small thing: set preventNextClick = false in the !hasMoved branch instead of leaving it alone, so a plain click can never leave the flag set and the function's intent is clear at a glance.

3. Sure, happy to walk through it. Two timelines are running at once: your event handlers are synchronous, but anything queued through queueSpeedUpdate runs later on the promise chain. The generation guard inside the .then is the giveaway, it's there because you already expected queued work to go stale. So the question is just: what can bump the generation between enqueue and execution? Only handleMouseDown and handleMouseUp. Write the interleaving out:

• drag ends, mouseup: generation goes to N+1, revert enqueued with N+1
• before the revert's .then runs, a new mousedown arrives: generation goes to N+2
• the revert's .then finally runs: N+1 ≠ N+2, silently dropped
• the new gesture reads video.playbackRate as its baseline, still the boosted value, because the revert never applied

The general habit: whenever you see a "still current?" check inside an async continuation, assume it'll fail sometimes, then ask who can invalidate it and what state is left behind when it does. Most cancellation and race bugs live exactly in that gap between "enqueued" and "executed."

4. Good, that clears things up, thanks for confirming. For the OSD flash on revert you don't need any new plumbing: just reuse the same showOSD call from handleMouseMove, fired from handleMouseUp with the reverted value.

5. No rush on this one, it's a "worth considering," not a blocker. If it helps, you don't need to catalogue every overlay up front. Extend the exclusion selector in getPlayerTarget with the classes you can confidently identify (the settings/popup surface and the title/chrome-top area are the main ones), test that clicking the video still closes an open menu, and iterate from there. Shipping without it and following up later is a perfectly fine call too.

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Finalizing the test suite for the current features then I'll work on integrating it into dev

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1. reventNextClick can get stuck on — index.ts:133. It's only reset when the click lands inside the player, but there are paths where that click never happens: drag ends outside the player, window loses focus mid-drag (the blur listener at index.ts:39), or the feature gets disabled mid-drag (index.ts:127 removes the click listener and then calls handleMouseUp, so nothing is left to clear the flag). In all three cases the next normal click on the video gets swallowed. Fix is to reset the flag be

1. I did notice it after a while, but wasn't sure about what was causing this behavior.
   thankyou for pointing out the exact cause, i'll fix it

Normal clicks queue a pointless speed write — index.ts:111.

2. possible fix

• Update handleMouseUp so the existing cleanup and generation invalidation always run.
• Only call queueSpeedUpdate(initialSpeed, ...) when hasMoved is true.
• Preserve preventNextClick behavior for drag gestures and leave ordinary click-to-pause behavior unchanged.

3. Understood, if you dont mind could u also explain how were u able to detect the edge case bcz i dont think i would have been able to (i m still a newbie)
4. Yes, the feature is supposed to be a Temporary Hold-to-boost feature, the reason for disabling the native YT gesture was to avoid conflict.

maybe flash the OSD once on the revert so the snap-back isn't invisible.

Will Do

mousedown gets killed on the settings menu, title bar, pause overlay etc.

I'll look into it, would take some time as i aint sure about how i should tackle these for now.

1. No worries, it's one of those bugs that's easy to spot in code but hard to hit in real use, since it needs a pretty unusual click sequence. When you fix it, you might also want to reset preventNextClick at the top of handleMouseDown. Belt and suspenders, even if some future path leaks the flag again, the next press clears it before anything else runs.

2. That's exactly right, cleanup and the generation bump always run, only the revert write is gated on hasMoved. One small thing: set preventNextClick = false in the !hasMoved branch instead of leaving it alone, so a plain click can never leave the flag set and the function's intent is clear at a glance.

3. Sure, happy to walk through it. Two timelines are running at once: your event handlers are synchronous, but anything queued through queueSpeedUpdate runs later on the promise chain. The generation guard inside the .then is the giveaway, it's there because you already expected queued work to go stale. So the question is just: what can bump the generation between enqueue and execution? Only handleMouseDown and handleMouseUp. Write the interleaving out:

• drag ends, mouseup: generation goes to N+1, revert enqueued with N+1
• before the revert's .then runs, a new mousedown arrives: generation goes to N+2
• the revert's .then finally runs: N+1 ≠ N+2, silently dropped
• the new gesture reads video.playbackRate as its baseline, still the boosted value, because the revert never applied

The general habit: whenever you see a "still current?" check inside an async continuation, assume it'll fail sometimes, then ask who can invalidate it and what state is left behind when it does. Most cancellation and race bugs live exactly in that gap between "enqueued" and "executed."

4. Good, that clears things up, thanks for confirming. For the OSD flash on revert you don't need any new plumbing: just reuse the same showOSD call from handleMouseMove, fired from handleMouseUp with the reverted value.

5. No rush on this one, it's a "worth considering," not a blocker. If it helps, you don't need to catalogue every overlay up front. Extend the exclusion selector in getPlayerTarget with the classes you can confidently identify (the settings/popup surface and the title/chrome-top area are the main ones), test that clicking the video still closes an open menu, and iterate from there. Shipping without it and following up later is a perfectly fine call too.

Thanks for the detailed review and guidance.
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Review comments at @public/locales/en-US.json:
- Line 969: Update the feature description in public/locales/en-US.json at line
969 to state that releasing the drag restores the starting playback speed.
Update the corresponding feature description in README.md at line 175 with the
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- Around line 107-111: In the gesture cleanup flow, preserve `preventNextClick`,
clearing `activeGesture`, and incrementing `gestureGeneration`, but call
`queueSpeedUpdate` only when `hasMoved` is true so an ordinary click does not
write the unchanged `initialSpeed`.
- Around line 79-81: Update the lower-bound calculation in the speed adjustment
flow around getMinSpeed and newSpeed so a decreasing drag never raises playback
above initialSpeed, even when gestureSpeed is 1 and playback starts below 1×.
Preserve the existing minimum-speed behavior for increasing drags.
- Around line 59-60: Before incrementing gestureGeneration and capturing
currentSpeed as the next initialSpeed, apply or preserve any pending restoration
in speedUpdateQueue so a new gesture starts from the restored playback rate.
- Around line 105-108: Update the gesture-ending paths in the playback speed
boost module to clear preventNextClick when a drag ends outside the player,
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@VampireChicken12 all code review comments are now resolved :)

Thank you one nitpick can you edit the commit messages after the first to be refactor and not feat, for those that are marked as feat, they will all show in the release info since it's automatic

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Summary Of recent Changes:

1. Renaming task type to "refactor/fix" from "feat"
2. Implement OSD throttling for performance optimization
3. Support for shorts has been implemented
4. Fix of a bug, that prevented trailing clicks if any mouse down event landed outside of player surface, i.e ( timestamp container )

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