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Firefox won't play videos in the background all of a sudden anymore. It doesn't show up in the control panel at all as playing or paused. If I set my phone into desktop mode on YT the videos will play for a few minutes, then stop. I tried reinstalling the app and can't find a solution.

Firefox won't play videos in the background all of a sudden anymore. It doesn't show up in the control panel at all as playing or paused. If I set my phone into desktop mode on YT the videos will play for a few minutes, then stop. I tried reinstalling the app and can't find a solution.

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Hi

Do you have the Video Background Play Fix add-on installed?

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I do, but it doesn't work.

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This does appear to be an issue that our developers are aware of and are looking into. You can follow progress on this and add comments at:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1827583