Closed Bug 1361468 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

YouTube background playback no longer working on FF android

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Audio/Video, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
Audio/Video
Version:
53 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1355407

People

(Reporter: m.elmezouar, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.133 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: 1. Open youtube.com on FF android 2. Play video 3. Switch tab or turn off screen Feedback collected from Firefox users on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrMrAnti/status/859462447270416385 https://twitter.com/mohitthapa47/status/857374688414056448 https://twitter.com/ZeRedFlow/status/859440675363979265 https://twitter.com/ImRand__/status/855737736615141376 https://twitter.com/BrotherofRunes/status/854905336129626112 https://twitter.com/RadicalNutsack/status/854839396343926786 https://twitter.com/danielderi/status/854797689116139523 Actual results: The video stops playing, as opposite to before the update. Expected results: The video should continue playing in background.
This appears to be a YouTube change. There are reports of this happening across devices (Android/iOS) and browsers. Request desktop site feature in Firefox has worked for some users.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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