Over time browser restarts have become less disruptive, with things like scroll position and form data being preserved across a restart. One important piece of state that's not preserved across a restart, is the current position in a playing or paused video such as Youtube. It would be really nice if this could be preserved as well. I realized there's probably a variety of ways in which this could work at a technical level, ranging from Firefox recognizing and special-casing certain video sites such as Youtube, so Firefox providing a general state-preservation mechanism that sites like Youtube opt into. But from the user's point of view, I think this should "just work".
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Over time browser restarts have become less disruptive, with things like scroll position and form data being preserved across a restart. One important piece of state that's not preserved across a restart, is the current position in a playing or paused video such as Youtube. It would be really nice if this could be preserved as well. I realized there's probably a variety of ways in which this could work at a technical level, ranging from Firefox recognizing and special-casing certain video sites such as Youtube, to Firefox providing a general state-preservation mechanism that sites like Youtube opt into. But from the user's point of view, I think this should "just work".