Is there a way to quickly switch to the tab playing video/sound in Firefox?

[Mark Kaine]

like i have 100+ tabs, the video plays far on the right but im on a tab thats far on the left, so when i want to switch to the tab playing a video i need to scroll (and scroll... and scroll...) all the way to the right... would be nice if you could just switch? (idk if chrome has that option,  but realistically it doesn't need it because all tabs are visible and you just click on the tab you want to be at, takes less than 1 second) 

[Millios]

I'll make a suggestion that you might find trivial or obvious

Open 2 instances/windows

When you need it switch to that with alt+tab

Or use the pop in windows for videos

Because they let you have a window with the vid as an overlay. Basically you can press that to return it to the actual tab and it takes you there as well

(btw that appears when you hover over a video on the bottom 3rd ish on the right of the vid as option, just sayin in case you havent noticed it cause I didnt for a few months when switching from opera GX)

[Mark Kaine]

4 minutes ago, Millios said:

I'll make a suggestion that you might find trivial or obvious

Open 2 instances/windows

When you need it switch to that with alt+tab

Or use the pop in windows for videos

Because they let you have a window with the vid as an overlay. Basically you can press that to return it to the actual tab and it takes you there as well

(btw that appears when you hover over a video on the bottom 3rd ish on the right of the vid as option, just sayin in case you havent noticed it cause I didnt for a few months when switching from opera GX)

That's a workaround for some specific uses, but generally that's still way too tedious and counter intuitive how i use browsers (since forever)

the extra windows thing would get confusing and tedious really fast and probably mess with my "tab order" too (be it by accident or by design)  <-- it would definitely work with a longer video though (as i wouldn't need to switch often most likely) 

 

similar with the pop out function, but that then loses all the things why i may want to switch (recommendations, comments, translations, etc)

 

ps: i see there's a move tab option (right click) but that really doesn't solve the issue either as it would mess with tab order etc... what they really need is a "switch to tab currently playing audio/video" option...

[Millios]

2 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

That's a workaround for some specific uses, but generally that's still way too tedious and counter intuitive how i use browsers (since forever)

the extra windows thing would get confusing and tedious really fast and probably mess with my "tab order" too (be it by accident or by design)  <-- it would definitely work with a longer video though (as i wouldn't need to switch often most likely) 

 

similar with the pop out function, but that then loses all the things why i may want to switch (recommendations, comments, translations, etc)

 

ps: i see there's a move tab option (right click) but that really doesn't solve the issue either as it would mess with tab order etc... what they really need is a "switch to tab currently playing audio/video" option...

I see I see

If you use a specific tab all the time( or the tab you use at that specific time), for example YoutTube, then perhaps you can pin that tab specifically (they stay at the left side at all times with just the Icon being shown so they take less space but still stay visible and if they play sound they have a speaker icon on them) so that it is available all that times, shown if they play audio and instead of scrolling through the all the tabs you move the cursor to the other side of the screen which I would dare say is less of a hustle, at least i find it less of a hustle

[Mark Kaine]

44 minutes ago, Millios said:

I see I see

If you use a specific tab all the time( or the tab you use at that specific time), for example YoutTube, then perhaps you can pin that tab specifically (they stay at the left side at all times with just the Icon being shown so they take less space but still stay visible and if they play sound they have a speaker icon on them) so that it is available all that times, shown if they play audio and instead of scrolling through the all the tabs you move the cursor to the other side of the screen which I would dare say is less of a hustle, at least i find it less of a hustle

that could maybe be useful (depends if the tab goes back to its original position after un-pinning) but that gave me an idea to check again... you can move a tab to the start or the end... which could potentially solve the issue as i usually have that video tab all at the end and the other tab(s) i frequently use somewhere at the start - its a matter of convenience as i use them frequently so finding them is easy...

so i could move the "video tab" to the start and when im done back to the end... its an additional step to just switching but should be convenient enough.

[Millios]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

that could maybe be useful (depends if the tab goes back to its original position after un-pinning) but that have me an idea to check... you can move a tab to the start or the end... which could potentially solve the issue as i usually have that video tab all at the end and the other tab(s) i frequently use somewhere at the start - its a matter of convenience as o use them frequently so finding them is easy...

so i could move the "video tab" to the start and when im done back to the end... its an additional step to just switching but should be convenient enough.

If you unpin them they sadly open as the first tab rather than at the end

But since you can put that in the end manually with 2 clicks or just open the tab with that vid from the history as they open as the last tab (there is a way to just open recently closed tabs as well since fire fox has a "recently visited" section up left that includes recently closed tabs)

 

[jaslion]

Either use tabhunter extension or use the about:performance firefox url sort by cpu usage and the audio player is usually at the top

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, Millios said:

If you unpin them they sadly open as the first tab rather than at the end

But since you can put that in the end manually with 2 clicks or just open the tab with that vid from the history as they open as the last tab (there is a way to just open recently closed tabs as well since fire fox has a "recently visited" section up left that includes recently closed tabs)

 

Yeah, moving to start/end actually solves this issue (for the most part) it's basically the same idea as pinning but easier, especially because it actually switches immediately to the moved tab... i might have to "scroll" back to the previous or other tabs, but the main issue is fixed by moving.  

[WereCat]

2 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

like i have 100+ tabs, the video plays far on the right but im on a tab thats far on the left, so when i want to switch to the tab playing a video i need to scroll (and scroll... and scroll...) all the way to the right... would be nice if you could just switch? (idk if chrome has that option,  but realistically it doesn't need it because all tabs are visible and you just click on the tab you want to be at, takes less than 1 second) 

Well...

 

I use Vivaldi with 2 worskpaces and one is dedicated just for YT. 

In settings I've set switching to next/previous workspace by holding right mouse button and flicking the mouse to the right/left. 

Works absolutely great and I can never go to a browser that does not have this feature. 

 

So it doesn't matter on what website I am, I can quickly flick to YT to pause/play/switch video and flick back instantly. 

 

I also use flick to up/down to scroll fully to the top/bottom of the website. 

[Mark Kaine]

30 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Either use tabhunter extension or use the about:performance firefox url sort by cpu usage and the audio player is usually at the top

idk what tab hunter is but sorting by cpu aint gonna work because the point is still having everything in the order it needs to be, ie:

 

 

you see, mods, mods, mods (and in a logical order)........... the video tabs are further down,  so naturally the video tab im currently (probably) watching is at the end, so temporarily moving that to top (start) fixes most of my issues.

[Mark Kaine]

15 minutes ago, WereCat said:

Well...

 

I use Vivaldi with 2 worskpaces and one is dedicated just for YT. 

In settings I've set switching to next/previous workspace by holding right mouse button and flicking the mouse to the right/left. 

Works absolutely great and I can never go to a browser that does not have this feature. 

 

So it doesn't matter on what website I am, I can quickly flick to YT to pause/play/switch video and flick back instantly. 

 

I also use flick to up/down to scroll fully to the top/bottom of the website. 

yeah that kinda solves the issue but i can't switch browsers whenever a feature i thought should be mandatory isn't there lol... 

still trying to get used to Firefox... mostly it's ok, but im still a bit wary about security specifically (eg. i don't even know how to disable 3rd party cookies, a thing i have disabled since years on chrome... im also not sure Firefox does a good job in warning you from dangerous websites the same as chrome does... sure google is evil but besides usability they sure have security down... even works together with Windows Defender) 

 

 

[Millios]

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

yeah that kinda solves the issue but i can't switch browsers whenever a feature i thought should be mandatory isn't there lol... 

still trying to get used to Firefox... mostly it's ok, but im still a bit wary about security specifically (eg. i don't even know how to disable 3rd party cookies, a thing i have disabled since years on chrome... im also not sure Firefox does a good job in warning you from dangerous websites the same as chrome does... sure google is evil but besides usability they sure have security down... even works together with Windows Defender) 

 

 

I would suggest some extensions to help with that just exist and dont take much
Privacy badger and Kaspersky free did wonders for me since they block any link that has a tracking extension and 3rd party scammy stuff and trackers

I am considering of looking a bit more tho on some extra stuff but those are the basics I use since I transitioned from chromium browsers