In fact, this browser allows you to play content in the background from various sources such as YouTube, Spotify, Apple Musicamong other.
So it will no longer be necessary to keep the screen of your device on in order to continue playing your favorite multimedia content.
And in order to do it, firefox It has two alternatives that we will try to explain below. In the first option you do not need to install any plugins or add-ons. Which sounds quite attractive because on many occasions these add-ons put the security of devices at risk with malicious code.
How to play audio and video in Firefox without add-ons?
In order to carry out this first option in firefoxusers will only have to activate their notifications and thus ensure that the content continues to play while the screen remains off.
The option is available from the settings section in firefoxwhere you will find a button to activate the “Notifications”just above the option “Data collection”.
Then you should play any video in Youtube since firefox and press the three-dot option in the upper left corner of the browser again to activate the option that says “Desk Site”.
Once this is done, the video will continue to play even when the device screen is off.
Play videos in Firefox for Android with add-ons
Now, with the second option of firefox that allows you to play multimedia content with the screen off and in the background it is necessary to download Video Background Play Fix. You can do it from this link.
Then click on add to firefox, and ready. Finally you just have to restart the browser to access Youtube and play any video in the background.