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The manually selected quality is no longer respected when the extension's quality is set to 'Auto' #2273

@Ahmed-Abdelhameed

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@Ahmed-Abdelhameed

I've had the 'Player > Quality' option set to 'Auto' for a long time now and it meant that whatever quality I manually select in the player is the one that's going to be used in all videos until it's changed again. For about a week now, I noticed that my selected quality (in the player) is no longer respected and the quality is selected automatically (this is the behavior that should happen if I select 'Auto' in the player too).

At first, I thought maybe YouTube changed something but disabling the extension makes the problem go away.

If this was an intended change and not a bug, please consider adding a 'Don't change' option in addition to the existing 'Auto' because otherwise, there's no way to go back to the old behavior.

P.S. The reason I prefer to set the extension's Quality option to Auto/Don't-change is because I change the quality frequently and I want the selected quality to be remembered. If I set the quality using the extension, I will have to change it via the extension menu every single time (it's much easier to change it in the player, or better, using the shortcuts). Otherwise, it will revert to the default quality on the next video.

  • Expected /preferred behavior: Make 'Auto' respect the manually selected quality again or add a new option for that.
  • ImprovedTube Version: 4.928
  • Tested alone without other YouTube extensions or in incognito mode? Yes
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Browser: Chrome

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