Speed up playback rate of online videos in web browser on Debian Linux Windows and Mac users have Enounce MySpeed to assist with increasing playback speed of online videos. What options do I have for increasing playback rate of online videos in Google Chrome on Debian (Squeeze)? Downloading videos and watching locally won't work; I don't have the time/motivation to do so on a regular basis.

You can copy-paste the URL (e.g. from YouTube) into VLC (the keyboard shortcut is `Ctrl`-`n`).

Then you can adjust the speed in VLC with _Playback→Speed_ or click on the `1.00x` icon at the bottom right, then you get a nice slider. The keyboard shortcuts are `-` for slower and `+` for faster (the latter one is not working on my system for some reason).