Youtube audio_only

Listen to Youtube audio, no video is downloaded (save CPU, GPU, bandwidth and battery) It doesn't work on all videos. (Some videos doesn't provide audio only stream.) Live is not supported.

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manifest.json

{
  "name": "Youtube audio_only",
  "version": "24.1.29",
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "description": "listen to Youtube audio (no video is downloaded)",
  "homepage_url": "https://github.com/craftwar/youtube-audio",
  "icons": {
    "38": "img/icon38.png",
    "128": "img/icon128.png"
  },
  "browser_specific_settings": {
    "gecko": {
      "id": "{dccd64f0-f884-496c-af8b-1a66330e1a67}"
    },
    "gecko_android": {}
  },
  "background": {
    "scripts": [
      "js/global.js"
    ]
  },
  "permissions": [
    "tabs",
    "webRequest",
    "*://*/*",
    "webRequestBlocking",
    "storage"
  ],
  "browser_action": {
    "default_title": "Youtube audio_only"
  },
  "commands": {
    "_execute_browser_action": {
      "description": "Toggle Youtube audio only mode on/off"
    }
  },
  "content_scripts": [
    {
      "all_frames": true,
      "matches": [
        "*://*.youtube.com/*",
        "*://*.youtube-nocookie.com/*"
      ],
      "js": [
        "js/youtube_audio.js"
      ],
      "run_at": "document_end"
    }
  ]
}