preview Youtube videos quickly on same page?

Currently doing some research and going slowly because when I access a
Youtube user's video page, whenever I click on a video, I get taken to a
new tab to view it. Is there a way I can just click on the video and
play on the same page without any other tabs opening (or even keep the
video thumbnail the same size and position), sort of a quick preview so
I can move on quickly if not what I want? I'm on Firefox. THanks.

JBI wrote:

when I access a Youtube user's video page, whenever I click on a video,
I get taken to a new tab to view it.Â* Is there a way I can just click on
the video and play on the same page without any other tabs opening

Not much help for you, but what you want is the default behaviour that I
get, have you got any add-ons that alter tabbed browsing?

On 12/06/2019 13:54, JBI wrote:
Currently doing some research and going slowly because when I access a
Youtube user's video page, whenever I click on a video, I get taken to
a new tab to view it. Is there a way I can just click on the video
and play on the same page without any other tabs opening (or even keep
the video thumbnail the same size and position), sort of a quick
preview so I can move on quickly if not what I want? I'm on Firefox.
THanks.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226151

1. Type |about:config| in the Firefox address bar
2. Bypass the security warning
3. Find the |browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction| preference
4. Double click it to change the value to |0|
5. Find the |browser.link.open_newwindow| preference
6. Double click it to change the value to |1|



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JBI wrote:

Currently doing some research and going slowly because when I access a
Youtube user's video page, whenever I click on a video, I get taken
to a new tab to view it. Is there a way I can just click on the
video and play on the same page without any other tabs opening (or
even keep the video thumbnail the same size and position), sort of a
quick preview so I can move on quickly if not what I want? I'm on
Firefox. THanks.

"Access a Youtube user's video page"

Vague. You don't say what you are doing, what is "access", or just how
you are getting to the Youtube page. Are you clicking on a hyperlink in
one web page and then opening a new tab to load the hyperlinked web
page? That's what happens when you click on a hyperlink in a document
(web page, e-mail, doc file, etc).

Whether a hyperlink (the HTML A tag) loads the linked document (web
page) into the current document or opens the document in a new tab
depends on how the hyperlink was coded for its target attribute.
Complain to the author of the source document where you are clicking the
hyperlink.

A href="{location}" ... target="_blank" {comment} /A
Opens the linked document in a new tab or window.

A href="{location}" ... target="_self" {comment} /A
Opens the linked document inside the same frame where the hyperlink was
clicked (the default if the target attribute is missing).

See:
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_a.asp
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_target.asp

For example, in the first above article, there is a hyperlink with
"target" (shown underlined) as the comment for an A tag, as in:

a href="att_a_target.asp"target/a

When you click on that hyperlink, the new document replaces the current
one because the default target attribute (when not specified) is _self.
You're on one document, click the hyperlink, and that document gets
replaced with a new document.

You don't give actual details, like the URL to the web page where you
are clicking a hyperlink (to then go to the Youtube page), the HTML code
of an e-mail to show the A tag's target attribute (only applicable if
you are viewing the e-mail in a webclient, not a local e-mail client),
or where you are clicking on a hyperlink to let /others/ see where you
were and how the A tag was coded there regarding its target attribute.

That you have to click on the video object in a Youtube page indicates
you have configured Firefox to not auto-play the video stream in a page.
One way to disable auto-play in Firefox is to change a setting in
about:config; see:

https://major.io/2018/12/18/disable-...in-firefox-65/

If that is what is happening, either you or an extension you chose to
install modified those settings. We don't know what extensions you
installed into Firefox. A problem with disabling auto-play is
thereafter not all videos show a control bar (Stop, Play, Pause, Back,
Forward, volume slider, position slider, etc). That makes them appear
uncontrollable. You have to right-click on the video object to get at
the controls, if the video object has controls. Unless you have altered
how Firefox works with video, auto-play is enabled on videos. That is,
without tweaking, visiting a Youtube page with a video should have that
video start playing immediately. Say I go to youtube.com and search on
"cutest kitten". I get a search results listing. Clicking any one of
them not only replaces the current web page with the hyperlinked web
page (which is what you said you want to happen) but the video in the
new document begins playing immediately.

If you mispoke about the page behavior and you want to click on a
hyperlink and have it open in a new tab instead of in the current tab
(i.e., you want the new document to load in a new tab instead of
replacing the current document), use the mouse's middle button (under
the scrollwheel) to click on a hyperlink. A middle-click will open the
new document in a new tab. Then you can watch the new video, close that
tab when you're done, and your search results page is still there for
you to middle-click on something else to watch.

The above article disable auto-play for all videos whether they have
sound or not. The following article describes how to disable auto-play
only for those videos that have sound:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay