YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise 150
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube has added a new play icon to its video pages that only appears when content is playing. The icon disappears when you hit pause, allowing you to quickly see which tabs are making noise. The new feature is a very minor tweak that will be very useful for YouTube users. Because the service auto-plays content when you open a video, if you have multiple YouTube tabs it is often tedious to figure out which ones need to be paused or closed."
Plug (Score:2, Informative)
See also: You Tube Options for chrome (and possibly other borswers?) It allows you to totally stop autoplay, and has those tab icons already in there - one for videos which are playing, another showing which are paused.
There's a bunch of other options in there in addition, just wanted to call those two out in particular.
old problem (Score:4, Informative)
I haven't had that problem, with youtube or a great number of other sites, for quite a while. For two reasons:
1) disallow scripting by default, stops a lot of autoplay.
2) sometime in the last couple of years Firefox quit trying to load every tab when you reload a saved session. For each window, it only loads the "active" tab, and leaves the other tabbed pages blank unless/until you select their tab.
The second also stopped the internet choke you used to get when you restarted a session and it tried to load several hundred pages at the same time. Hurray for progress!
News? (Score:2, Informative)
Is this really "News that matters"?
Seriously?????
Re: Security hole? (Score:4, Informative)
So now Google is sending over code to my computer saying in addition to playing a video, my tabs should blink
This ability to change the title is something that any javascript enabled page has been able to do since the dawn of javascript.
How is that code being sent?
OMG, your right, and I just noticed that when you use gmail and go from your inbox to a message it puts the subject of the selected message into the page title, and it does this without loading a whole new page... OMG OMG ...how is this done its keylogging when i click on a message and code from a server something something... MITM vulnerability just waiting to happen... oh noes my bank infos...
Stupid troll.
Re: Belong in the browser, maybe? (Score:2, Informative)
Your gut is way off. People put music on YouTube in the background all the time.
Re:Belong in the browser, maybe? (Score:2, Informative)
Maybe there's a 3rd party add-on?
Yes.
There are more than one. Search for FlashBlock or AdBlock.
Works for me.