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After reboot, YouTube videos that were paused in Chrome and Edge play as soon as I click the browser

Anonymous
2022-04-20T09:44:39+00:00

The big hassle with rebooting used to be finding your way back to where you were, with all the various apps and browser pages you had open. These days, it pretty much gets you back to where you were. I even noticed today that a Notepad file I hadn't saved came up with all its content present. One thing though still causes me to dread the reboot. It's the state that browsers return to, specifically ones that were paused on YouTube videos. They come back with the peek view showing the browser page blank (ie, just the browser's logo). When you click on one that was paused on a YouTube video prior to the reboot, it starts playing the video. In fact it starts playing all the videos that were paused in all tabs in that browser instance, so you get this cacophony of sound and have to go searching for tabs that are playing videos. It would be much better if the browsers were able to return to exactly the same state they were in when the reboot occurred, eg paused. I do not have YouTube set to Auto-play, by the way. Does anyone know if this is possible?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-04-20T11:50:59+00:00

    Hi, my name is Neil, and I'm a Windows 10 user like you.

    I'll be happy to answer your question.

    I too suffer from this multi-tab-video-playing event most days! I have to rush through and click pause on everything quickly. It even plays videos that were paused on websites like Discovery+ and other sites too (it did that this morning :D ).

    Unfortunately, as of yet, there is no way to boot up, open your browser back to where you were and have these videos paused where you left off.

    This is a browser issue more than a Windows issue, so what I would suggest you do is contact Google about Chrome by clicking on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the Chrome window and then go to Help > Report an issue

    You can describe the issue in detail here and send it directly to the Google team.

    Likewise, for Edge, click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the Edge window and then go to Help and feedback > Send feedback and do the same here and send what's happening to the Edge development team.

    Hopefully they will be able to fix some code with the browsers that bring these tabs back with a paused state on any video media.

    I hope this helps.

    Kindest regards,

    Neil

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