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how keep run YouTube videos when I'm in another window?

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JesusJohnSheila
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In the beginning, Firefox for Android uses don't stop movies when we open another window or program, and keep going on the YouTube movie in background. What happens? Any trick I need know to make it work again? Ty

In the beginning, Firefox for Android uses don't stop movies when we open another window or program, and keep going on the YouTube movie in background. What happens? Any trick I need know to make it work again? Ty

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Kevin
Kevin
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A year or so ago YouTube made a change that only allows playback when the user is actively looking at the video. Likely to drive YouTube Red subscriptions.

You can use this extension to change the behavior https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/