Can Firefox Keep This Audio Feature
I used to be able to surf the web using Firefox why having some YouTube music playing in the background. I will be on a Google search engine while YouTube play music in the background in another tab. Now when I try to do that and go to another Tab in a Google search engine, the YouTube music shuts off completely. What happened to this? I really like that feature so much. Can you guys bring it back? So i can play my music and surf the web at the same time. Simultaneously. And if you do bring it back when will you bring it back? Thank you.
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Time warp! This was a very hot topic back in May. I'll paste a reply from that era:
This is a change on the mobile YouTube site. Browsers have a feature that sites can use to know when the page has lost focus or the screen is turned off:
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API
Someone recently posted an add-on that apparently prevents websites from detecting that event. It's called: Video Background Play Fix and has this description:
Some sites may not work with Firefox video background play feature. This add-on provides a quick fix by blocking the Page Visibility API and the Fullscreen API.
I haven't tried it myself, but the poster in this thread said it solves this issue: Please let keep firefox playing on when the main screen is off.
Caution: Pages may use more data and battery than normal if they can't pause when you switch tabs or turn off the screen.
Does that help?