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.
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.
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…
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.
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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
RVX also does this. Install revanced.
You can also use yt music revanced.
But you don’t need an extension for that? Just standard firefox can already do that.
Yeah. For me the video stops when I lock the screen (or change apps) but I can then press play again on the lock screen (or in the drop down notifications when changed to another app).
This might be about the auto pause that happens during playlist. However OP did not say so I might be wrong.
I also use it to listen to podcasts/ lore videos without having my screen on when I’m falling asleep. It’s also nice for driving. If you make a playlist and have an ad blocker, it WILL continue on to the next song.
I’m actually thinking of forking Firefox and making a lite version mostly geared towards playing YouTube content without ads and without restrictions.
Just use NewPipe or one of it’s forks.
What I do is I just jump into Termux and yt-dlp that shit. Then I can listen to it however I want, and I have it for ever, if I want.
edit: (Also I’m just not a huge fan of addons, but if you are and this works for you, that’s cool)
blud just install newpipe
YSK: Revanced is a thing that exists.
- RiMusic https://github.com/fast4x/RiMusic
- SimpMusic https://github.com/maxrave-dev/SimpMusic
- OuterTune https://github.com/OuterTune/OuterTune
- Metrolist https://github.com/mostafaalagamy/Metrolist
- InnerTune https://github.com/z-huang/InnerTune
Any of these (YouTube Music) players are better choices than using an extension on a browser
I’m pretty sure extensions can request browsing data for some specific URLs rather than every site you visit. If an extension with functionality on one website asks for access to all of them, then yeah it’s a bad sign.
The person you replied to is correct, and your link confirms it:
An extension with broad permissions can access all tabs and browsing data
The extension does not just have this access, it has to request it from the user first.
Of course, an extension can request access to all browsing data, but Firefox will tell you about that before you install it. And better still, the extension this post is about, doesn’t even request this:
I’ve used most of these and quite frankly they are not good. Each of them quit working randomly or wouldn’t play certain tracks and wouldn’t get an update for days or weeks, at which point I’d move on to the next and get exactly the same experience. They’re FOSS apps, and I’m fairly certain Google is to blame for breaking them, but even so if they are unusable for days or weeks at a time I cannot recommend them.
If you just want a YouTube app with no ads and background playback I would recommend PipePipe. It’s what I’ve settled on after trying everything else, and it’s fantastic. Google breaks it all the time, but updates very quickly bring it back online.
If you want something FOSS that’s closer to the YT Music experience, I don’t know what to tell you.
ReVanced is better, it’s a cracked YouTube app
I just watched it when it stopped working after 8 months without issue. This is normal for it
RiMusic is update regularly, no third party player is perfect, even PipiPipe or Newpipe can break suddenly, Google/YouTube don’t like third party apps using their services and are always implementing ways to break apps
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.
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!
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/unblock 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.
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.
i have it and i think i got it from revanced.app, my house hasnt like exploded yet so that one should be good
also ublock doesnt like revanced.net for some reason
Here’s their Github, enjoy friend!
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.
