james-fray/youtube-no-buffer

A bulletproof Firefox only extension to prevent YouTube player from buffering

youtube-no-buffer's Issues

Bugged page loading/CPU usage on version 0.2.5

Problem url: https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/fair-use.html
Clean fresh profile: just never-ending high CPU usage, page doesn't finish loading (waited 10 min).
Customized profile with other extensions: high CPU usage, memory pull growth, then browser crashes completely.

Disabling extension fixes issue. Reproducible with and without e10s.

Both Firefox 55.0.3 (64-bit) and Nightly 57.0a1 (2017-09-03 build) (64-bit)
Windows 7

YouTube Videos Not Pausing Anymore on Chrome 100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)

YouTube Videos Not Pausing Anymore on Chrome

Chrome Version

100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)

YouTube™ No Buffer Version

0.4.3

Selected Settings:

✅ Stop even on playlists
✅ Pause the player instead of stopping it3
✅ Pause the player instead of stopping it if the URL has seek argument ("&t=xs")

What I already tried

1. Update and Restart Chrome
2. Uninstall / Reinstall Extension
3. Clear Cache
4. Refresh YouTube Page to make sure that the plugin reloads on YouTube.

Add ability to start playing automatically when switching to a tab that was loaded in the background

When using YouTube on Chrome it will not autoplay videos in tabs that were opened in the background (ie: Open In New Tab), but it will start playing when you switch to the tab. It would be nice to have the option of this behavior with this add-on

Whenever I click a stopped Video it will toggle ON/OFF/ON/OFF/ON/OFF... indefinitely with a ~50% chance

So here is how I reproduce it:

Step 1: Go to some Youtube Channels List of Videos and think "hey i'm gonna watch a few of those Videos"
Step 2: Use Middleclick to open multiple Videos in new Tabs (which as you might guess is the main use-case of this extension for me)
Step 3: Whenever you click Play on the Player it will have a ~50% chance to do the following:
1: Enable the Player
2: Start the Video
3: Buffer for a second (eating a lot of bandwidth)
4: Disable the Player (even though I actually wanted to watch the Video)
5: GOTO 1
and repeat forever until interrupted, wasting a ton of my Data Limit and lagging Firefox.

This particular Bug is so bad that the extension doesn't make sense to use anymore, so i would kinda like it to be fixed. ^^

The Black Border

Not a huge bug but suddenly, a couple days ago, it displays the thumbnail image with black border / not stretched.
Why? Is it up to Me? Re-enabling add-on doesn't help.

Player error

Hi!

As of today the YouTube player throws an error and the video playback is not possible with the add-on enabled.

Browser: Firefox 74

Is it not possible to prevent the video from playing/buffering properly anymore?

Hi!

Maia-yt used to be able to do it, no playing even for a split second and no buffering. Only the click to play picture showing, and the timecoded links worked as well. But that script stopped working abruptly like 2 months ago. Even though YouTube didn't change noticeably in any way.

Cannot watch certain Livestreams if one of the two YT Players is used.

So here is the Issue and i dont know how exactly to explain it. Youtube has two different Media Players, the normal one that most Videos use that are uploaded and then a special one for Livestreams, but not all Livestreams, only Livestreams that have run for less than half a hour or so, until it then again uses the normal Player. (Youtube is weird...)

That special Player will tell me that my Browser does not support HTML5 and that no supported Video Formats are available, while this Extension is installed/enabled, forcing me to disable it whenever I want to watch a Livestream on Youtube.

I tried disabling all extensions but this one to make sure its not a combination of extensions doing that and yes it is alone this extension causing it.

I can live with just turning it off and F5ing the Page, whenever I watch a Stream, but it's definitely a minor annoyance. ^^

Works, but I found a bug

It works for me, but it's also broken, after leaving a video page by clicking on the YouTube logo to go back to home and switching tabs, I listen to the video audio on the YouTube homepage, even when I'm not on the video page or with the tab active.
I guess it's a bug and could be fixed easily for sure.

Comments don't load until you click play

I'm having an issue on the new material design youtube where the youtube comments don't load until you click play. Is this something you can potentially fix?

Toggle button?

As the title says. Would be cool to have a button that could be added to Firefox's toolbar to toggle the state.

Reloading the page is required to stop the video

Videos autoplay when opened, and only reloading the page causes them to be stopped as intended.

Firefox 48.0
Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox buffering today... all add-ons affected

Heads up, it looks like however FF add-ons do this is broken as of today. Thanks for staying on this stupid broken website's case!

Conflict with other extension

The fix you did 3 days ago worked, then stopped working yesterday. Upgraded to the latest fix this morning but it's not working.

Ability to disable GA statistics

Tab focus causes brief play

When a video is middle clicked (opening in a non-focused new tab), it seems to work as expected (though, the tab's tab has an audio icon as if it were playing). But when you click the tab to bring it into focus, the tab begins playing for perhaps a couple seconds, then stops, sometimes appears to reload, but eventually the video stops like it should be when the page was opened. If I left click the video instead, opening the video page in the current active tab, then everything works as expected.

Add support for YouTube channel start pages

The extension currently prevents buffering of videos on standard youtube video pages (URL format https://www_youtube_com/watch?v=[video_id]).
It doesn't seem to support the same for videos embedded in channel start pages (URL format https://www_youtube_com/user/[channel_name]/featured/). Those still load and start playing automatically.

The issue seems to be in /src.safariextension/lib/firefox/firefox.js at line 174.
if (!url.contains('youtube.com/watch?v=')) {
return;
}