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Calls Protected

Video Calls Stay Alive

Performance v1.4.7

Your video call no longer dies. Tab suspension now recognizes call tabs (Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Jitsi, Teams, Chime) and never discards them mid-call, and Stop Autoplay leaves live call audio alone instead of pausing it. Cookie-banner auto-reject restores scrolling even when a site re-locks later, and the fix survives a back navigation or a restored tab. Blocklists are refreshed too. No new permissions.

  • Tab suspension now recognizes video call tabs (Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Jitsi, Microsoft Teams, Chime) and never discards them mid-call
  • Stop Autoplay no longer touches live call audio — a call that was going silent is no longer a thing
  • When a site's cookie banner re-locks scroll after you've already passed it, the recovery now survives — including after a back navigation or a restored tab
  • Banners no longer vanish when you reopen the popup
  • Blocklists refreshed; auto-reject engine updated

Video Calls Survive Suspension

Three lists decided whether a call tab survived, and they had drifted apart: some call apps made it into the autoplay protection list, others into the suspension protection list, and a few into neither. A Webex call in a background tab could get discarded mid-call at the default five-minute threshold. All the lists now cover the same hosts — Google Meet, Webex, GoToMeeting, Jitsi, Microsoft Teams, and Chime — and a test fails the build if they diverge again. The call tab also gets a stricter check for “is this actually a call now”: it runs in every frame of the page, and if it can’t tell, it keeps the tab alive.

Stop Autoplay Leaves Live Calls Alone

Google Meet builds a live audio stream per participant and recreates them on every join, unmute, or speaker switch. Each one got rejected and re-paused by Stop Autoplay’s guard, which is how a live call went silent. A live stream is a call, a capture, or a mic monitor — never the marketing autoplay this feature exists to stop — so it is now exempt at every level. The guard also stops un-muting elements on its own: a deliberately muted element (like Meet’s own self-view, muted to stop echo) stays the way the page set it.

Scroll Recovery That Lasts

On some sites the cookie banner re-locks scrolling well after you’ve passed it — on a timer, or when you navigate back or restore a tab from memory. Before, the recovery sweep gave up early and only kept running while something ad-related was changing, so an ad-quiet page lost scroll recovery entirely. The recovery now has its own watcher that stays armed for the page’s life and costs nothing until something actually locks scroll, and a back navigation or a restored tab re-runs it.

What Carries Over

No new permissions. No listing changes. The blocklists are refreshed, the auto-consent engine is updated, and everything from 1.4.6 — self-repairing ad blocking, tracker blocking, the whitelists, and the rule counts — carries straight across.