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Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)
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Firefox Doesn’t Skip in Background #1738

Open FlorianWendelborn opened 1 year ago

FlorianWendelborn commented 1 year ago

My Version: Firefox Developer Edition 113.0b9 (64-bit) with Sponsorblock 5.4.1 on macOS Ventura

Basically, what happens is the following:

  1. I open a video
  2. I play it in the background
  3. I notice a few minutes later that I’m hearing stuff I’m ordinarily skipping like sponsors and self promotion
  4. I tab back to Firefox
  5. Sponsorblock immediately skips properly

So, my guess is that this is somehow related to Firefox throttling extensions running in background tabs/windows. This seems to be a recent change, I think it’s happening since about a month, maybe two.

cobaltdr commented 1 year ago

Same. Firefox Developer Edition 114.0b6 Macos Monterey 12.6 Sponsorblock 5.4.6

Does not however consistently block when switching back to foreground.

ajayyy commented 1 year ago

Skipping uses set timeouts. Maybe Firefox is not triggering timeouts when out of focus

ajayyy commented 1 year ago

Is this still happening to people?

cobaltdr commented 1 year ago

Not had it for at least two rolling upgrades of Firefox Developper Edition, now on 116.0b8. Sorry about the delay.