YouTube Videos Not Pausing Anymore on Chrome 100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[thenonhacker]

YouTube Videos Not Pausing Anymore on Chrome

Chrome Version

100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit)

YouTube™ No Buffer Version

0.4.3

Selected Settings:

✅ Stop even on playlists ✅ Pause the player instead of stopping it3 ✅ Pause the player instead of stopping it if the URL has seek argument ("&t=xs")

What I already tried

1. Update and Restart Chrome
2. Uninstall / Reinstall Extension
3. Clear Cache
4. Refresh YouTube Page to make sure that the plugin reloads on YouTube.

[james-fray]

Have you tried on a clean profile? Does it work if you uncheck "Pause the player instead of stopping it"?

[thenonhacker]

Does it work if you uncheck "Pause the player instead of stopping it"?

I did, and still, it has no effect on the YouTube Videos.

Have you tried on a clean profile?

Ok, I started an Incognito Window, which is Not tied to my main Chrome profile, and then enabled this extension in Incognito Mode.

Then I went to a YouTube video.

Same bug and behavior occurred.

[james-fray]

which is Not tied to my main Chrome profile

Not really. I want to make sure that no other extension is interrupting the worker registration. Try on a temporary clean profile instead.

Another test:

1. Right-click on a YouTube page and select the "Inspect" item.
2. Switch to the console tab.
3. Reload the page and monitor the log.

Do you get any useful logs here?

[thenonhacker]

The extension works if I create a new profile, and that's the only extension installed.

[thenonhacker]

UPDATE: I found the culprit.

If I disable YouTube Normalizer, your extension will work again.

[james-fray]

I just tried both extensions in a clean profile and they work fine for me.

[thenonhacker]

Hi James!

You are right... I think I found the exact scenario where your plugin didn't pause / stop the video.

When I open a YouTube video on a new tab, your plugin successfully stops the video from playing (and therefore, buffering).

The problem is when I open YouTube video link with a Time Request Parameter.

Example:

Plugin will successfully stop this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNF2_dCWkg

Plugin won't be able to pause this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNF2_dCWkg&t=5s

[james-fray]

The second link has a seek argument (t=). The extension does not stop these types of videos, since the position will be forgotten. You can change this behavior on the options page.

[hassanbenhzaine]

Hello, I have Chromium 107.0.5304.87 on GNU/Linux Debian and its working fine, try to clean and reinstall latest version that might work.