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Youtube Music pauses when not in focus

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Hunter
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When playing music on music.youtube.com, if I navigate away from the tab, by either moving to a different tab or opening a different application the music pauses. This happens consistently with two different Firefox profiles.

I admittedly have a quite a few plugins installed, so I tested this in a private window and this issue does not occur.

I attempted disabling the obvious plugins UBlock, 'I don't care about cookies', and Tampermonkey without any success. I also tried using a different user-agent without any success.

edit: removed erroneous error information

When playing music on music.youtube.com, if I navigate away from the tab, by either moving to a different tab or opening a different application the music pauses. This happens consistently with two different Firefox profiles. I admittedly have a quite a few plugins installed, so I tested this in a private window and this issue does '''not''' occur. I attempted disabling the obvious plugins UBlock, 'I don't care about cookies', and Tampermonkey without any success. I also tried using a different user-agent without any success. edit: removed erroneous error information

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So you did turn all Addons off and then turn each on/off to find out which was the cause? You have to turn all Addon on and test each separately to find the issue regardless of how many you have installed.

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Hunter
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This is great advice, I think I didn't do this earlier out of laziness.

The plugin that caused it is Mozilla Side-View!

Someone already filed a github issue for it https://github.com/mozilla/side-view/issues/441