Edit: sadly, Auto Tab Discard did not fix my issue. Firefox is also set to block audio (including video with audio to my understanding) by default, which I never changed so I don’t think that helps with this issue either.
So I installed pop on my laptop a few months ago, and recently got another one where I installed arch. On both laptops I mostly just watched series, and often times I’d just leave the laptop with the media player still open.
Now to the issue: Randomly throughout the day, it would just start playing whatever I left open, usually after a few hours of being left alone. Now that I think about it, I think it was only crunchyroll. Does anyone experience anything similar, or might even have an idea as to how to fix this or what causes this? Is it just crunchyroll being buggy?
If it’s just Crunchyroll doing this, you can disable auto-play for it (or just disable it for all sites, IMO automatic playback of media is pretty annoying).
Another alternative is to use Auto Tab Discard, which automatically suspends tabs which are inactive after x seconds. This also helps save memory and CPU usage, and also greatly benefits laptop users. So if you tend to leave your browser open and have dozens of tabs in the background, I’d highly recommend getting this.
I think auto tab discard is what I’m looking for, thank you
crunchy roll
Ye if it’s a website it’ll auto-refresh sometimes and start playback as the cached buffered chunks age
That makes sense, this is probably it. I’m gonna try the add-on the other user was recommending and see if it happens again.
It’s just the new AI porn saying “watch me plsss”
Maybe something is sending a play/pause signal? My headset will automatically pause media when I take it off and resume playing when I put it back on, but sometimes it triggers when I’m not wearing it and starts playing whatever I was playing last.
Maybe check the keyboard shortcut list to find if some kind of keyboard shortcut has been bound to play/pause as well.
The only peripheral I have on there is a USB mouse with no media buttons, and the laptop lid is closed so I doubt it’s hardware causing this, but a good idea nonetheless
MPRIS controls media playback generally. Usually a keyboard shortcut or some UI in your DE activates it.
No idea, but it might help others to know what Desktop Environment you were using, browser, addons, etc.
Fair point.
I don’t think DE has anything to do with it since it happened on both GNOME on pop, and Xfce on arch.
On both machines I’m using Firefox and have the following addons:
Ublock origin, bitwarden, sponsorblock for youtube and bring back dislikes
You’re not using KDE connect perhaps?
Nope, just on my gaming tower, but those laptops shouldn’t have it installed and I definitely never set up a connection to my phone
