PilPod v2.0  ·  Manifest V3  ·  Tab Sleep & Wake API
Manifest V3 · Chrome Extension

Your Browser's
Media Command
Center

PilPod consolidates every YouTube and YouTube Music tab into one precision control panel — precision volume control, timeline scrubbing, 1-click global mute/pause, Picture-in-Picture, and instant search. Built for the kind of user who has 40 tabs open.

Precision native volume control across all tabs simultaneously
Live search jumps directly to any tab or media stream
100% local — zero telemetry, zero tracking, zero servers
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PilPod
0B
Data Sent to Servers
∞
Tabs Supported
1-Click
Mute & Pause All
MV3
Manifest Version
Architecture

Built for the Power User.
Engineered for the Long Haul.

PilPod doesn't just wrap the Web Audio API. It speaks the browser's native language — lifecycle events, service workers, and direct keypress simulation.

TabRegistry & Service Worker
A persistent service worker maintains a live registry of all open tabs, consuming chrome.tabs lifecycle events in real-time. No polling. No stale state. Every tab creation, update, and removal is captured instantly and surfaced to the popup with zero latency.
chrome.tabs API · Service Worker
Auto-Discard Protection
Chrome's aggressive tab discarding can silently freeze background audio streams. PilPod marks any tab with active media as non-discardable via autoDiscardable: false, ensuring your music keeps playing even when the browser's memory pressure spikes to critical.
Memory Management · Auto-Discard
Self-Healing Content Scripts
Under memory pressure, Chrome can silently terminate injected content scripts without notification. PilPod's service worker runs periodic health checks and silently re-injects scripts into any tab that fails a ping — zero UI disruption, zero user intervention required.
Self-Healing · Script Re-injection
Native Player Bridging
Rather than hacking the Web Audio graph, PilPod simulates the exact keyboard events native players expect — pitch-correct volume steps, seek commands, playback toggles — delivering lossless precision control across YouTube and YouTube Music.
KeyboardEvent · Web Audio API
Global Action Hub
Instantly silence or halt your entire browser. PilPod provides dedicated 1-click global commands to Mute All or Pause All tabs instantly, alongside native Picture-in-Picture (PiP) support for background videos.
1-Click Control · Picture-in-Picture
Privacy

Your Browser.
Your Data.
Yours Alone.

PilPod is architected with a strict local-first, zero-server philosophy. The extension operates entirely within your browser process — no analytics SDK, no update pings, no crash reporting, no telemetry of any kind.

✓ 100% Local-First
Zero Telemetry
No analytics, no crash reports sent anywhere
No 3rd Parties
No ad networks, trackers, or external SDKs
Local Processing
All logic executes inside your browser, period

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One extension.
Every media tab.

Free forever. No account. No subscription. Install and command your browser's media like a pro in under 10 seconds.

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