# Youtube auto-pause

> Automatically pauses YouTube videos when you leave the tab with extra automatic resume

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-auto-pause4](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-auto-pause4)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-auto-pause4`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Removed
- **Publisher:** Codeman
- **Version:** 0.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-08-13
- **First published:** 2024-08-07
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2025-03-22
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-auto-pause4/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/cody-ferguson/youtube-auto-pause](https://github.com/cody-ferguson/youtube-auto-pause)

## Description

Features:
<ul><li>Automatic pausing when you leave a YouTube tab</li><li>Automatic resume when you go back to the YouTube tab</li><li>Respects your manual pausing, meaning if you manually pause the video to go do something else in your Firefox, when you go back to the video, it won't automatically resume.</li></ul>

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `scripting`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension is not longer available in the store

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-auto-pause4)