It can be a bit buggy at times, but when it comes to just playing music with the screen locked, it’s perfect.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/
Edit: I forgot to also mention that ad blocker extensions make sailing the seas on mobile much more manageable. Extentions, in general, have been a really nice addition.
Just get YouTube Revanced?
This works again?
It’s been working for as long as I have had it. Sometimes if it stops working, you have to create a new patched app with Revanced manager
Newpipe can also be used as a full-on replacement to the YouTube app or YouTube in a browser. It allows for background music, or video and audio downloads for offline enjoyment.
The apk has to be sideloaded, of course.
Came here to say this. Newpipe has been awesome. You don’t have to sign in, no ads, can still sub and make a playlist. It’s basically youtube premium and I have had zero issues with it.
Ugh, no. Another “emulate in browser what could’ve been native” thing.
This IS native in firefox for android. I have no idea why OP is using an extension.
Background playback used to be a thing in the official app, but then they obviously couldn’t get as many people to pay for YouTube Music or YouTube Premium or whatever.
Or just download it and play using VLC.
I mean… your music is gonna sound so funny if your internet stutters.
Look, I usually laugh at audiophiles for being snobs, but getting music from YouTube is gonna make your music sound funny without Internet issues
Get the music elsewhere if you’re gonna play local files
Use fennec or Ironfox
I’m good with ReVanced, thanks.
Playing YouTube on a mobile browser is finicky at best.
Speaking of, where can I get revanced? There seem to be three different revanced managers floating about…
Revanced.app and the GitHub the other person linked to are the only official sources.
An easy way to tell if you’re using the legit version is if you’re using ReVanced Manager to build the APK yourself. (Don’t worry, it’s easy and straightforward.) If you downloaded an APK directly, you have a fake copy.
Here’s their Github, enjoy friend!
And for everyone else who doesn’t want extra garbage on their phone it’s: switch to ‘Desktop Site’ > continue doing whatever else. This applies to both Firefox and Firefox Focus
No need promote/install more unnecessary stuff on your phones 🤦
Edit- that being said, I still include no script/ublock in FF and use FFF for yt videos when I don’t want to clog my Tubular history (newpipe fork with sponsor block) with useless stuff that I’ll never want to rewatch.
RVX also does this. Install revanced.
For those on iOS: there’s an app called “Vinegar” that replaces the YouTube player with a vanilla HTML5 player that supports background/PiP play without YT Premium.
Alternatively on iPhones with “dynamic island”, minimize Safari while a video is playing, quickly tap-and-hold the dynamic island area and resume playback. After that you can lock your device and audio will continue playing.
This functionality is also built into the brave browser on mobile as well (at least on iOS)
Brave settings -> Media -> Enable Background Audio
BE WARNED. These extensions are a prime target for purchase and/or hijacking by malicious threat actors, who then use them to gain persistence on your browsers and steal data. There is no reason to increase your browser attack surface for this feature when better alternatives have been posted in this thread.
There are dozens of these articles dating back the last five years or so.
To top up your comment, you can get the permissions required for each extension in Firefox for Android. Extension Manager --> click the extension --> Permissions
In the case of this specific extension, it requires access to the data of only 3 domains :
Many other extensions are far worst in regards to permissions that this one.
It is a good habit to check what are the permissions required before using any extension or phone apps for that matter.
Thanks for the reminder!
There are simpler ways - using newpipe, grayjay, etc.
It’s just a single install. But fair point. This allows you to create playlists, though.
It’s not gonna mean much of shit soon, anyone in the know is ditching Firefox for alternatives.
Firefox has changed their terms of service and is now starting to sell user data.
Lol people have been “ditching” Firefox for various reasons for years. If you can barely get people to ditch Chrome, good luck with making some ff fork relevant.
Problem is, that many alternatives still just build up on Firefox
If Firefox is dying, Waterfox, LibreWolf, etc will be dying with it, as they don’t have the resources to actually maintain the web engine
Not sure, what the best move currently is…
Am I the only one that still knows how to use Internet Explorer 5 on Windows 3.11?
That’s not even a joke, it still sorta works, but you’re not gonna log into your bank account with it.
I just don’t like to use wine for a application I use everyday
They reverted those changes last week.
The fact that they attempted them at all is a breach of trust (and I say that as someone who’s been a Firefox user and advocate without interruption since all the way back when it was called “Phoenix”).
IDK, time will tell, we’ll see eventually.
We live in the world of enshittification, when changes like that happen, even when briefly reverted, are usually a sign of times to come soon…
Yeah, your data is the trade away. I’m trying to fork it rn and bake in the extensions.
I’m curious, ditching Firefox for what? Chromium browsers? More Firefox forks? Is there even a good alternative?
New territory for me as well, but I don’t want to go with Chromium or any fork of that.
As of yesterday I’ve started testing Fennec, a recommended fork of Firefox, that has supposedly gutted much of the bullshit.
I dunno anything for sure though, just basically dipping my toes in the fresh digital waters…
You know Firefox for android does this natively. No plugin required.
How? Mine does not as it is setup currently.
I play the video in Firefox then lock the screen, which stops the playback but then FF is in the media bar so I can press play to continue playback.
Didn’t realise that this worked, thanks!
That was my thought… I was thinking “I already do this without an extension”, so I had to verify that I wasn’t using an extension that I forgot about.
YSK: Revanced is a thing that exists.
blud just install newpipe
