YouTube auto Pause and Resume by James Fray
Pause YouTube player when page is hidden and resume when it is active again
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About this extension
This extension does not add any UI element and uses no resource at all. Only on YouTube pages, a very tiny script is injected which controls the player's playing status 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.
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.
--- My YouTube Enhancer Tools
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.
--- My YouTube Enhancer Tools
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Rated 3.8 by 18 reviewers
Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for www.youtube.com
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for www.youtube.com
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- Version
- 0.2.2
- Size
- 83.51 KB
- Last updated
- 2 months ago (Sep 6, 2025)
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- License
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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