Merlin
Disable Page Visibility API

Disable Page Visibility API

This add-on disables the Page Visibility API.

Total ratings for Disable Page Visibility API
4.63 (Rating count: 32)
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Pros
  • Works as advertised and prevents pages from detecting when they are not in focus
  • Enables continued playback or download countdowns when tab is not active
  • Allows for background play of videos on social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter, as well as on streaming sites like Twitch and YouTube
Cons
  • Does not work on Instagram reels or certain tutorial videos like those on skillbuilder.aws
  • Ineffective on the Page Visibility API documentation page on Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
  • No toggle button, which means users cannot easily switch the functionality on and off
Most mentioned
  • Allows background play of videos, audio, and prevents pause on tab switch
  • Inconsistent performance across different websites
  • Lack of a toggle feature for easy enable/disable of the add-on
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Recent reviews for Disable Page Visibility API
Recent rating average: 4.30
All time rating average: 4.63
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-03-11 p Doesn't work on Instagram reels
2024-01-26 CH Works as advertised!! FFS, this was incredibly frustrating issue to have, but this fixes it.
2023-12-26 moe Wors exactly as expected. Pages do not know they are not "focussed" anymore and don't pause the download countdowns.
2023-11-03 Kerry Fisher
2023-10-10 Firefox user 15223442
2023-09-08 Firefox user 18047547 Works like a charm! Thank you! :-)
2023-07-02 kasinadhsarma
2023-05-10 Harry This is great, but doesn't work with tutorial videos on this website https://skillbuilder.aws/
2023-04-16 Firefox user 12470615
2023-04-11 nbryskin Doesn't work on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API
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