Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™ chrome extension

Version: 0.2.0
Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™
Pause YouTube player when page is hidden and resume when it is active again!
4.25 Based on 20 user rates

What is Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™?

Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™ is a youtube extension for chrome. it's a free extension and is featured in Productivity, it has 886 active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.25 from 20 rated user, last update is 1139 days ago.


What’s new in version 0.2.0?

                Features:
Automatically pause the YouTube tab when the tab is hidden
Automatically resume the YouTube player when that gets focused
Can get disabled from the action button.

How it works:
Only on YouTube pages, a very tiny script is injected, which controls the player's playing state based on document visibility status. When a YouTube tab is brought to the front, the player automatically resumes exactly like pressing the play button, and when the document is hidden, the player will automatically pause exactly like when the pause button is pressed. 

Sample Use Case:
Having multiple YouTube players on different tabs. When a tab is focused, only the active player is playing, and all other players will go to the pause state.

For FAQs and other useful YouTube enhancer extensions please visit:
http://add0n.com/youtube-tools.html?from=auto-pause

Change Log:
0.1.1: It is possible to disable and re-enable the extension from the toolbar button. This is useful when you want to listen to YouTube videos in a background tab.
0.2.0: It now uses manifest v3. You need Chrome "95" or greater to update to this version.            

How to install Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.


Preview of Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™


Technical Features:

  • Latest Version: 0.2.0
  • Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
  • License: Free
  • Latest update: Tuesday, November 9th, 2021
  • Author: MeryDev

Auto Pause and Resume for YouTube™ Available languages:

English.


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Reviews of auto pause and resume for youtube™:


Elcoms Khang Jun De January 30th, 2022
Elcoms Khang Jun De

Everything I need. An enable/disable button. Auto resumes when looking at the page. Auto pauses when not looking at the page. Edit: Not working when I alt-tab. It worked the first time. Weird. Edit2: Alt-tab sometimes work...


Stefane Guevremont May 9th, 2019
Stefane Guevremont

This Extension works like a charm. I especially love the fact that it pauses only when switching between tabs of the same Chrome window. I often type or work in a separate window and can still have a youtube video play in another. I would suggest an improvement. I personally like the auto-pause, I sometimes find the auto-resume to be bothersome. It would be useful to have an option to select which ones you choose to activate. That would make this Extension even better.


d0x360 July 20th, 2018
d0x360

finally a plugin that actually works on youtube again in regards to pausing and playing when switching tabs. The low number of downloads and reviews always make me wary but looking at the contents of the plugin itself I dont see anything malicious unlike some other similar youtube plugins that dont even work. So thank you dev, it is much appreciated.

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