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Youtube video continues to play after navigating back

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Steps to reproduce: 1. Open youtube 2. Open any video 3. Hit back and navigate to youtube main page 4. Press media key play/pause on keyboard

Expected result: nothing happens Actual result: the sound from the video continues on the tab with youtube main page, the tab has "PLAYING" on it

Steps to reproduce: 1. Open youtube 2. Open any video 3. Hit back and navigate to youtube main page 4. Press media key play/pause on keyboard Expected result: nothing happens Actual result: the sound from the video continues on the tab with youtube main page, the tab has "PLAYING" on it

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Hmm, I can't replicate that on Firefox 119.0.1 for Windows. As soon as I go Back from a video it stops.

Do you use any add-ons that could be fooling YouTube into thinking you are still viewing the video?

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I've tried disabling all of the addons, it did not help I'm using Firefox 119.0.1 on Linux

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> As soon as I go Back from a video it stops. It seems to me you have skipped the part where I press the play/pause key on the keyboard after i go Back

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You're right, I missed that last step!

It appears that Firefox doesn't clear the video from whatever system queue is used for the "hardware keys" when you go Back from the video to a previous YouTube listings page to within. I wonder whether this is due to the design of YouTube avoiding a true navigation by modifying the page contents and creating synthetic history entries.

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I couldn't find a bug on file for this, but this could be due to trying the wrong terms...

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home