Tube Chip

Name: Tube Chip
Rating: 3 (5 reviews)
Author: apparatus.tools

Speed up streaming on your browser with multithreading and hardware optimization.

As of May 2026, Tube Chip has 644 users and a 3.00/5 rating from 5 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Chrome Web Store ↗.crx

Users+4.9%

644

Rating0%

3.00

5 reviews

Reviews+25.0%

Version

2.2.1

Manifest V3

History

3 snapshots

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

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Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 1, 2026	614	3.00	4	2.2.1
Apr 30, 2026	627	3.00	4	2.2.1
May 29, 2026	642	3.00	5	2.2.1
Now	644	3.00	5	2.2.1

Permissions & access

Permissions: activeTabstorage
Host access: http://*/*, https://*/*

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About

The Chrome Extension named "Tube Chip" is designed to accelerate and improve the performance of video streaming on websites. When the user navigates to a website that contains videos, the extension detects the video format (M3U8, html, javascript, iframe player, streaming formats), and parallel processes the segmented streams using multithreading. Each segmented stream is assigned to a separate service worker, which allows the extension to preload, accelerate and fully buffer the stream. 

The extension also merges the Youtube Player API and hardware concurrency to detect the number of cores in the user's processor and allocate all resources to Youtube. This ensures that the video playback is smooth and does not lag. 

To use the extension, the user simply needs to click on the "Tube Chip" icon and download and it will be applied automatically when viewing stream. To uninstall go into chrome://extensions and press Remove.