Hello everyone, new user just use manjaro quite recently as daily driver. Is that a default behavior of the browser to reset back the youtube mode to its own state.
here is the step to produce the problem:
open any browser(brave & firefox)
open youtube and open any kind of video
set the theater mode to on
close the browser and open back youtube
issue: the theater mode set back to off
expected behavior to be: the theater mode still on
note: this behavior so far only happened to me for youtube theater mode only. (the rest like dark mode and stuff still ok).
Yes, I’m afraid that’s YouTube’s fault. Apparently theater mode selection is not stored in your YouTube preferences, and it has already been like that for as long as I can remember.
I wonder if its YouTube’s bug but why its only happened on linux? I have dual boot, when I was using windows it’s saved the configuration for theater mode. (thanks for your answer, ad least now I can make sure that there is no miss configuration from me which makes any weird behavior to browser)
Are you sure that it was the browser itself that did that, or was it a browser extension you had?
I know that browser extensions exist that do this ─ I’ve seen them but I’ve never installed them ─ so I presume that by default, a browser doesn’t know how to save this preference, and that it’s a YouTube decision to not respect the preference for theater mode.
Im pretty sure I don’t have any special extension to control my media for youtube. my extension mostly like react-dev, redux-dev, some vpn stuff, or ad block if I used firefox. its not a big problem tho but its just kinda bug me to click theater mode over and over everytime I reboot system or just restarting browser
this probably could a thing too, but if they can save the volume preferences(the volume does not reset after restart browser) or darkmode, there must a way too to implement it on theater mode preference.
