Changing quality in YT player changes the add-on's video quality settings

[muizzsiddique]

System

• OS name: Windows
• OS version: 10
• Browser name: LibreWolf (Firefox fork)
• Browser version: 112.0-1
• Extension version: 2.0.0

Bug description

Changing the video resolution to a video permenantly sets that resolution to all other videos played afterwards. You have to manually change the resolution back in the YouTube player. For some reason, your add-on listens to any video quality changes and then sets it as the new default resolution.

Logs

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[dessant]

This is by design, but we could add a new option to not sync option changes.

[muizzsiddique]

From my perspective, setting a resolution in the extension is setting a global resolution, whereas setting a resolution in the player is a temporary resolution change. That's how I expected it to work.

[fallmake]

@dessant #23 addresses a different issue.

This issue here is for example:

1. Go to extension options
2. Change setting General > Video Quality to e.g. 480p
3. Open any youtube video
4. In the youtube player, change quality from 480p (configured in 2.) to 4k
5. Problem: The General > Video Quality setting now also changed to 4k.
6. Problem: Open any new videos on youtube --> The quality is 4k by default, but should be 480p.

Expected behavior: Set 480p in step 2 --> all videos opened on youtube will play at 480p. If a user decides that that's not enough, they can change to e.g. 1080p or 4k in the youtube player, but all videos should start with 480p still because that's what they configured in the extension settings.