After updating to the specified version the extension became incompatible.

Play Store, Firefox Beta program.

Current Firefox version 79 for android doesnt work with the addon.

Okay, this is what I just did to reproduce it:

1. Open a video (and skip to 10 seconds before end)
2. Open another tab (maybe open sth.)
3. Go to your Android home screen
4. Turn the screen off.

When I switch back to the tab, it has either stopped completely.. or the autoplay progress thing continues and then the next video loads..

That said, it happened 3 out of 7 times, so it seems inconsistent. And some of the steps above are probably unnecessary.

The likelihood seems to increase the more videos I watch. For example, just now it stopped after about the fourth video, while the screen was off.

Could it be that the internet connection has something to do with it? (i.e. video starting to buffer or reconnect)

For a few weeks now, the add-on has not worked for YouTube, when Firefox is in the background or the screen is off completely.

I have reset Firefox (clear data from Android's app settings) and reinstalled the add-on but the issue continues. Autoplay is on.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
Android 12
Firefox 105.2.0

It isn't compatible with the new Firefox. It says "not yet available".

Hello,

First, thanks for this addon! Most useful I've got with ublock origin.

Also not a iOS user myself, I am wondering what prevent this bit of code to work in Firefox for iOS?

Cheers

Why I can't install this addon?

Hi,
Addon for FF (107.0.1 64Bit Windows) does not work with Tik Tok Videos, such like: this or this.
Would be great, if it would ;-D

Thank you.

Stopped working for YouTube this week

Last week I got a new phone (Huawei Honor 10, COL-AL10) which has a newer Android version, 8.1.0
I downloaded the same addon, the firefox does play on background, but after a few songs, it stops.
When I unlock the phone again sometimes it starts playing next song (and I don't even have to open firefox)
But sometimes Youtube in Firefox shows this error "Invalid Response Received"

I looked around my phone, I found a setting which stated that screen off disables some WLAN connections, I disabled it.
Under battery management disabled all savings.
After these change, it still does not work.

There is an app called "stay alive", which is supposed to keep connections alive, but even that does not work and as soon as the phone goes sleep, no more connections pass through.

Currently, I am using an app "touch protector" to keep the screen alive.

Is there some way for your app to disable some settings what I as the user can't change so that my phone never loses connections?
Or my only option is to change Huawei software?
And can I even run for example Pixel 2 software on Huawei or every phone has to have its own software compatible with firmware?

I am on the 83.0 (Nov 17) build of FF. It is occasionally pausing again, with the message "Video paused. Continue watching?". A test video paused at 39 minutes.

Would like to know if you see anything that's changed in their strategy for blocking background play and if we have a fix.

The YouTube TV site has recently implemented a similar feature where switching tabs pauses the video. I have tried several extensions that promise to block the Page Awareness API, but with no luck, so I assume they use additional measures to do this.

Perhaps you have any ideas on how to fix it.

Hi,

Soundcloud is blocking background play unless logged in. It starts working with both the visibilitychange and fullscreenchange, just like vimeo by the looks of it.

Noticed the other issues and the deferring to #3, I'm just reporting anyhow.

Meanwhile as a workaround I made myself a user script https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2275048/raw/main/soundcloud.user.js (need ff nightly with a user script addon like Firemonkey).

It doesn't install on Firefox android anymore.

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Hi I'm on Android 13, oneUI 5.1 Samsung and only have partially working addon, it plays in the background for a few minutes and then will stop, it immediately resumes when I return focus to the firefox tab that the video is playing in, I can see the buffering circle when I come back to the tab almost as if it's refusing to buffer unless I return to the video

It should be marked as compatible with Android so that it will show up when searching addons.mozilla.org with an Android user agent.

I can't play Instagram videos in background.

Yesterday my Android Firefox update to version 79.0.2 and Video Background Play Fix stop working (is disabled).
Most of my addons (except uBlock Origins) are disabled.
I try the workaround suggested #20 (comment) but sadly don't work.
There is any plan to make this compatible with the new Firefox? or at least any workaround possible?
Thanks!

A few days ago the add-on stopped working for me, I was turning my phone on and off a lot that day and was very out of date on my phone but up until then the add-on had been working.

Now while I can play youtube in the background it will not show up in media controls, full screening also hasn't been working and I've had to use auto rotate. The add-on will also not show up on my quick view for add-ons, but on the full add-on page it does, I am unsure how this is related.

I have updated my phone, reinstalled the add-on multiple times and have checked my Firefox is up to date.

I will day that I am unable to test reinstalling Firefox right now as I am logged into important accounts I'm unsure I would be able to get back into right now.

After video begins playing, I turn of the screen. After a few minutes you hear no sound, check
your video by turning your screen back on and the video shows the spinning circle like it is
buffering data from the internet. Not sure if this is just on long videos, I listen to alot of 3 hour
videos on youtube. Please see this link to test it and any of there daily 3 hour videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wXtAH-kK6w

Thank you!!!!

Hello,

I recently updated Firefox to version 79.0.5 for Android 9.
This version does not allow user to browse all the extension, only a selected list.

Is a compatibility with this new version planned ?

Thank you !

This addon works perfectly for my Android Firefox browser. Except when I receive a call when a youtube video is playing in the background, the video page gets reloaded as soon as I hang up the call and i lose my watch progress.

In the new Firefox version 79.0.5 it pauses the video after 60 secs or less while playing in the background

Now that, thanks to your effort, we can play longer Youtube videos, I am getting the dreaded "Video paused. Continue watching?" prompt. Obviously, I can't reproduce it at will.

On Chromium for Linux, I am using Youtube Nonstop, an extension with the ID nlkaejimjacpillmajjnopmpbkbnocid . Looking at its source code, it appears that it employs a webworker,with, every two seconds, checks on ($('.html5-video-player').hasClass("paused-mode")). When that turns true, it simulates a $("video").click();. Unfortunately, I don't understand how is the Chromium addon distinguishing between manual pauses and server-imposed pauses.

The addon still works great for playing Youtube videos in the background, but for the past month or so with Fennec Nightly, when I leave fullscreen in portrait orientation, the top 90% of the video will be covered by a black window.

The issue does not occur if I disable the video-bg-play addon.

It always worked in the past with any Video from any Website to play it in the background but since a few days its doenst work anymore. Can you please make it work again.

Ty

Please read the reviews on the Mozilla Extensions page because your fantastic extension is broken and we would really like it fixed if possible please: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/reviews/

Please include an option to specify the sites where this extension should kick in.
Right now it seems to be working globally, this is maybe not a good idea for some resource hungry websites using that FF API on mobile devices.

Hi, ESPN.com has started to stop videos from playing in the background. Can you please add support for ESPN.com to this excellent extension? Thank you

After Mozilla latest Firefox for Android update, and the mass disabling of extensions, I migrated to Fennec.
Even though, the extension is not available for download in Mozilla's extensions page.
Could you please make it available for sideloading? Maybe using Github releases feature.

Thank you for your work!

The Picture-in-picture mode does not work for the website, and I honestly don't know who could fix it better than you guys. This add-on is a fix for video background audio, but maybe you could add a PIP fix for YouTube. Please consider. Thank you :)

Essentially all of them. Seeking, exiting fullscreen, single and double taps. Sometimes the events go through, other times they don't. Easiest to replicate this in YouTube.

Since I installed this extension on desktop, while playing YouTube mixes, every now and then the current video plays twice, sometimes even more times. I think the cause might be that the extension does its work just at the end of the video. I’m certain it’s caused by this extension: I never experienced this before installing the extension, and it’s also gone when I temporarily disabled it. Any idea how to fix it?

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