Playlist item menu keeps disappearing

[xeophyte]

⚬ BUG: Playlist item menu keeps disappearing. Pretty irritating.
⚬ HOW: Open some playlist on YT and click 3 dot menu next to some item on the playlist and wait for a while.

⚬ Or did our last update start the bug?
I think so.
⚬ ImprovedTube Version: 4.700
⚬ Screenshots:

⚬ Browser: Vivaldi 6.6.3265.3 (64-bit)

[ImprovedTube]

hi! @xeophyte

consistently / permanently or only within seconds after page load?

check without our features description:expand, please
or without playlist:reverse if you have them enabled

else try a previous version. (in firefox' addon store it works with 2 clicks)
else, finally please check the browser console.

[xeophyte]

1. consistently / permanently
2. it exists with description: expanded, no bug when description: normal; playlist: reverse - disabled
   and btw, description: expanded still doesn't work, but that's another bug
3. no such bug on Firefox and IYT 4.642 (with description: expanded)

Yellow messages at the bottom of this screenshot appear when I click the 3-dot menu and it disappears, i.e. when the bug occurs.

[raszpl]

Cant reproduce :(
Description Expanded, Vivaldi | 6.6.3271.44
create new Vivaldi profile with only ImprovedTube extension and test again?

[xeophyte]

I can't reproduce it on clean profile, probably because then I'm not logged in my YT account.
It happens on Watch Later playlist. Try on https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL and optionally with my settings
improvedtube.json

[raszpl]

it sure looks like broken mouse doing double clicks :-) still cant reproduce on watch later with your settings :(

[xeophyte]

But this menu disappears even when I move the cursor away from the menu after clicking. I didn't have this before version 4.700. I updated the settings file in the previous answer.

[raszpl]

disable improvetube and try again

[xeophyte]

I reset the settings, uninstalled the extension, cleared the extension cache, installed again without importing my settings and still got this on Watch Later playlist and with Description: Expanded.

[raszpl]

try on a clean profile but logged into YT. I suspect its some other extension you have installed messing up with mouse events.

[ImprovedTube]

We you can quickly try disabling some of the experiment flags Youtube specifically gives an account @xeophyte,
as mentioned in this awesome comment by @PoorChameleon: #2038 (comment) (same as we discussed here #1851 (comment) )

btw, description: expanded still doesn't work, but that's another bug

Changed it a few times for you 😆

• is the issue gone when you go an older version or to v4.704? ( Theme swiching continued, this time working :) #2076 (comment) )

• You can add console.log("click on description"); to see how many of these messages will appear in the browser console and when. (these clicks can remove focus from the menu), ( adding after the 1st if (el) {el.click();
  

  youtube/js&css/web-accessible/www.youtube.com/appearance.js

  Line 413 in 4c43c76

  if (el) {el.click(); setTimeout(function(){ImprovedTube.elements.player.focus();}, 1200); }

  
  and console.log("click on slow-description"); after the 2nd.
  

  youtube/js&css/web-accessible/www.youtube.com/appearance.js

  Line 419 in 4c43c76

  if ( el) { el.click(); setTimeout(function(){ImprovedTube.elements.player.focus(); }, 1200);clearInterval(waitForDescription); }

[ImprovedTube]

(

no bug when description: normal

I suspect its some other extension you have installed messing up with mouse events.

sounds good! @raszpl besides that it depends on our description feature according to @xeophyte )

[xeophyte]

Same on clean profile logged into YT without any other extension. I just installed IYT and set Description: Expanded (no bug when off).

btw, description: expanded still doesn't work, but that's another bug

Changed it a few times for you 😆

Thanks, it works now in v4.704, but Description: Expanded still somehow cause the bug from this topic.

• is the issue gone when you go an older version or to v4.704?

I don't know how to install previous versions, but I think I didn't have this problem before v4.700.

• You can add console.log("click on description"); to see how many of these messages will appear in the browser console and when. (these clicks can remove focus from the menu), ( adding after the 1st if (el) {el.click();

I don't understand it. What I should do step by step?

[xeophyte]

In 4.1185 looks like fixed (when Appearance/Description: Expanded set), but Description: Expanded itself doesn't work (after refreshing the YT page).
Btw, where is the changelog?

[xeophyte]

Now again when Description: Expanded is fixed (#2750) Playlist item menu keeps disappearing.