🐞The settings of the in-player buttons - rewind & forward - do not persist for more than 2-3 days or if some other other settings (e.g., fit to window) are changed.

[shishirtanwar]

Concise Description

The settings of the in-player buttons do not persist for more than 2-3 days.
If you see below, the setting is enabled (using the extension since a long time and other things are working):

But the buttons have randomly stopped showing:

Now if I disable it:

Then enable it:

It comes back:

But may dissapear:

1. At any time OR
2. Also if I change any other setting (e.g., fit to window)

Browser/s

Edge

Other Browser:

No response

'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?

In-player rewind forward buttons enabled

Since when?

Since I installed the extension about a month back

Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?

Yes

..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)

No response

Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)

No response

Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):

None

Expected preferred behavior:

The buttons should persist forever until setting is disabled

ImprovedTube Version

No response

Your Settings (From the Extension's ⋮-Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)

{"ambient_lighting":true,"below_player_keyscene":false,"below_player_loop":false,"below_player_pip":false,"below_player_screenshot":false,"forced_theater_mode":false,"fullscreen_return_button":false,"hide_dislike_button":"normal","lastDarkTheme":"black","likes":"normal","player_autofullscreen":true,"player_autopause_when_switching_tabs":false,"player_autoplay_button":false,"player_fit_to_win_button":false,"player_forced_playback_speed":true,"player_forced_volume":true,"player_loudness_normalization":false,"player_playback_speed":2,"player_rewind_and_forward_buttons":true,"player_show_cards_on_mouse_hover":false,"player_volume_button":false,"popup_ad":false,"red_dislike_button":true,"remove_black_bars":false,"shortcut_dislike":{"alt":false,"ctrl":false,"keys":{"221":{"code":"BracketRight","key":"]"}},"shift":false,"wheel":0},"shortcut_like":{"alt":false,"ctrl":false,"keys":{"219":{"code":"BracketLeft","key":"["}},"shift":false,"wheel":0},"theme":"black","up_next_autoplay":false}

Your YouTube-Document

YouTube HTML.html

OS / Device:

Windows 10

[AnandRaj2224]

Hi @shishirtanwar , I'd like to try working on this issue. Could you please assign it to me?