🐞playlist not autoplaying

Concise Description

Playlist stops after every video and forces me to reenter the page to manually make it continue.

Browser/s

Firefox

Other Browser:

No response

'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?

Use custom theme, turn ads off, hide shorts bar, select playlist.

Since when?

4/22/25

Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?

Yes

..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)

No response

Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)

No response

Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):

No

Expected preferred behavior:

Playlist would continue playing its contents, retaining 'loop playlist' and 'shuffle' options between videos.

ImprovedTube Version

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Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)

{"ads":"all_videos","below_player_pip":false,"channel_trailer_autoplay":false,"confirmation_before_closing":false,"disable_thumbnail_playback":false,"improvedtube_home":"bubbles","lastDarkTheme":"dark","lastLightTheme":"custom","layer_animation_scale":"0","mark_watched_videos":true,"only_one_player_instance_playing":false,"player_autoplay_disable":false,"player_hide_endscreen":true,"playlist_autoplay":true,"playlist_repeat":false,"playlist_shuffle":false,"playlist_up_next_autoplay":true,"remove_home_page_shorts":true,"remove_member_only":true,"remove_related_search_results":false,"remove_shorts_reel_search_results":true,"theme":"dark","theme_primary_color":[255,163,212],"theme_text_color":[161,0,86],"track_watched_videos":true,"up_next_autoplay":true,"watched":{"6ujLXWKMy7E":{"title":"YouTube"},"M4Id4uOAkR8":{"title":"Doctors, what are some of your ANTI-VAX Parent Stories? - Reddit Podcast - YouTube"},"xtgnnovoqAE":{"title":"YouTube"},"IVJDM5Q7J8w":{"title":"Surgeons, what was your "this just got even worse" moment? - YouTube"},"AMp2y2ByC24":{"title":"Doctors, what was your dumbest patient experience? - YouTube"},"gZiiaB5lDkw":{"title":"Doctors, what's the rarest disease you've ever encountered in your career? - YouTube"},"6OcyAs6l1As":{"title":"Doctors, what are the dumbest patients you've met? - YouTube"},"RcKF1r5GQEU":{"title":"Second Opinion Doctors, What's The Worst First Opinion ? - YouTube"},"DWN8UJAA6Zg":{"title":"YouTube"},"yvzV4iB4coQ":{"title":"YouTube"},"GSZSaf2vW74":{"title":"YouTube"},"CG44rAJPDyw":{"title":"YouTube"},"PBlCcZr3g6w":{"title":"YouTube"},"vZc92-KwT0c":{"title":"YouTube"},"v2_X0EhZAO8":{"title":"YouTube"},"SjT0pp1eIcU":{"title":"YouTube"},"pCx__7bFoco":{"title":"YouTube"},"yMUZomr-Dzw":{"title":"YouTube"},"wMGd8jQtWZo":{"title":"YouTube"},"LiYl6Oi7G2A":{"title":"YouTube"},"mJxrx9mhdaQ":{"title":"YouTube"},"rc9l8sZ23o4":{"title":"YouTube"},"s4WrVoUPQoU":{"title":"YouTube"},"exlGms6Stfw":{"title":"YouTube"}}}

Your YouTube-Document

No response

OS / Device:

windows 10 PC

Start by reproducing the issue in Firefox with the listed custom theme, ad, Shorts-bar, and playlist settings, then trace the playlist autoplay and next-video behavior. Done means the playlist advances without reopening the page and preserves its loop and shuffle options between videos.