code-charity / code-charity/youtube
🐞Autoplays normally for hours. Suddenly autoplays videos in all tabs at once. Awful experience.
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- JavaScript
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Description
Bug Report:
- Description: (Clear/concise. Screenshot/Video welcome)
- Steps to reproduce this: (Might only happen with a certain feature of our's enabled?)
- Since when?: When YouTube changed something? Through our update?
- Browser:
- Are any errors shown in the Browser-Console?: (
F12-key, thenconsole-tab) - Does the bug not happen when you log out of YouTube? Then please copy your experiment flags list twice (with & without the error to compare). Enter:
yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGSinto the Browser console on youtube (F12-Key - Or find it in the html source(ctrl+U)
GitHub's issue search (use the link or remove "is:issue is:open" from the search)
- Expected preferred behavior:
- ImprovedTube Version (Written in the Extension header & your Browser's store)
- Tested as only active extension or in incognito mode?:
- Your Settings (From the Extension's
⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings (You can remove any Blocklist, History Analyzer data - or paste the following in the Browser-Console and hit enter:(function({analyzer, blocklist, ...a}){return JSON.stringify(a)})(ImprovedTube.storage)) - YouTube-Document: (
F12copy the whole root element: <html> (alternative: CTRL+U) (https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/wiki/Contributing#Test ) - OS / Device:
Firefox any OS, this has happened many times before. If this doesn't get fixed I will remove it completely. I listen to videos as podcasts, often to rest. This is the most annoying thing when it happens.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Firefox with ImprovedTube enabled, checking whether videos begin in multiple tabs at once. Collect the browser console output, ImprovedTube version, settings, OS/device details, and YouTube experiment flags requested in the report; done means identifying the trigger and preventing unintended simultaneous autoplay.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100