259227 2023-07-14 13:40:11 -0700 [GTK] Allow automatically pausing the previously playing video with sound when another one starts playing in a newly created tab / window 2024-12-26 09:20:41 -0800 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit WebKitGTK WebKit Nightly Build PC Linux NEW https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285167 P2 Enhancement --- 245783 1 nekohayo webkit-unassigned bugs-noreply happypig971021 philn oldest_to_newest 1966803 0 nekohayo 2023-07-14 13:40:11 -0700 The "Enhancer for YouTube" webextension add-on¹ has a "Pause videos playing in background tabs when a video starts playing in the foreground tab" setting that makes a lot of sense: if you already have a playing video+audio tab (ex: a YouTube video), if you start another such tab, it automatically pauses playback in the other tab where sound was playing. I think that's brilliant both for performance, lower power consumption, and for convenience: after all, it is unlikely that you can watch and listen to two videos at the same time _with sound_ ... The exception I see is WebRTC: you should obviously not stop a WebRTC video+audio stream in favor of some random video from another tab, in that case it makes sense to have both playing at the same time. --- ¹: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/ and https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle 1967330 1 happypig971021 2023-07-19 02:29:43 -0700 change from safari to another app which is playing sounds, <audio> status on safari will be paused first and then be playiny, but can't play sounds on safari. This is puzzling. 1969404 2 philn 2023-08-03 02:02:58 -0700 (In reply to Suhail from comment #1) > change from safari to another app which is playing sounds, <audio> status on > safari will be paused first and then be playiny, but can't play sounds on > safari. This is puzzling. This specific bug is not about Safari. 1969405 3 philn 2023-08-03 02:04:46 -0700 The problem here is that a different tab means different webview, hence possibly different WebProcess. So this would be a significant effort, and I'm not even sure it would be much GStreamer-related, so I'll update the bug title.