Youtube Pause

A Chrome extension that pauses all those lost youtube tabs when you open a new one (or resume one).

Still in development. Want this handy tool now?

• Download a copy
• Go to chrome://extensions
• Ensure developer mode is ticked
• "Load unpacked extension..."
• Select the folder of this download

Notes for my benefit

TODO

• Investigate event pages instead of background page? Will need to store registered tab ids though. And I doubt this extension is likely to be run on very low memory devices.

• If a video is playing and a new one is loaded, pause the new one and continue playing one. Then pause playing one if the new one is unpaused.

• Add browser action popup

  • Have an option to swap which video is paused when a new one is started (playing one or new one)
  • List the open videos
  • Indicate which is the currently playing video
  • Have a play button beside each to pause current and play selected
  • Link from list to focus/activate tab
  • Show options, or a link to a settings page

• Add queue functionality

• Right click youtube video links to "add to queue", or "play next"

• Right click youtube video links to "open paused"

• In popup, allow rearranging of videos and playing all like a playlist

Test cases

Page transitions:

• video to video
• video to non-video youtube page
• non-video youtube page to video
• video to non-youtube page
• non-youtube page to video
• youtube playlist auto-play
• refresh video page
• refresh non-video youtube page
• buffering video

Tabs/Windows:

• multiple tabs
• multiple windows
• minimised window