Stopping YouTube video on Zen forcing Alcove (dynamic island app) to quit and cannot be launched again

[jeryadrian]

Captchas

• I have read the instructions.
• I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates.
• I am not filing an enhancement request.

What happened?

When playing a YouTube video and then close it (either by closing the tab or going to the homepage), it always triggers Alcove (dynamic island app) to quit.

• I cannot open Alcove again as long as Zen still open, I have to restart or quit Zen first to launch it.
• This does not happen on other browsers in my laptop (Safari and Arc).
• This doesn't happen with Twitch and Soundcloud.
• However, playing videos on Reddit also trigger this.

I think this starting to happen when the media control on sidebar implemented.

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.10.1b

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

macOS - aarch64

Relevant log output if applicable

[Slowlife01]

Does it happen if you disable media controls? zen.mediacontrols.enabled to false and restart

[jeryadrian]

Is that setting in about:config? I cannot find it.

[Slowlife01]

Is that setting in about:config? I cannot find it.

Yes, add it manually

[jeryadrian]

Tried it. It still make Alcove quit but now I can launch it again without having to quit or restart Zen beforehand.
Edit: I can't launch Alcove when no video is playing.

I just notice it only happens when I close the video while still playing, it does not happen when I pause the video before closing. This too is not happening when I use other browsers (Safari and Arc).

[zen-browser-auto]

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