Feature Request: Built-in Background Play for All Video Platforms (No Desktop Mode Needed)
Title: Please Add Native Background Play for YouTube, Facebook & All Video Platforms
Hi Firefox Android team,
One feature request that would make Firefox Android truly unbeatable:
Built-in Background Play — for all platforms.
Currently, to play YouTube or Facebook videos in the background, users have to manually switch to Desktop Mode, which is a frustrating and confusing workaround. Most users don't even know this trick exists.
Please make background play a native, one-tap feature that works automatically on any video platform — YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and beyond — without requiring Desktop Mode or any workaround.
Brave is already competing for YouTube users. Firefox can win them all by being the only mobile browser that plays any video in the background, natively and effortlessly.
This single feature would bring thousands of users away from premium subscriptions. YouTube Premium's biggest selling point is background play. Firefox can offer that for free, for every platform, to every user.
That is a massive opportunity. Please take it.
Thank you for your time and for building a browser that still fights for the open web.
Best regards, A Firefox Android user
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Hi,
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Hi, a couple of comments regarding the issue you described.
First, there's an extension that resolves it, called Video Background Play Fix.
Second, it appears that the issue (behavior?) is caused by Google's change, since they want to keep background playback exclusive to Premium subscribers. Brave has just shipped an intervention to work around this change (probably something similar to what the mentioned extension does).
While it's not a Firefox bug, it may indeed be useful to do the same as Brave does. A bug has been filed to track the related work. That said, I don't have any timeline to share at the moment (but you can use the extension meanwhile!)
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