Question / Help Is OBS browser url seperate thing from what's going on my desktop browser?

[obs man]

I ask this because after clicking the stop recording button for a Youtube video I was recording as a test, the next Youtube video ran on OBS too but my Firefox browser wasn't running that video. I clicked sources>browser and entered url of the Youtube video - does that mean it's going thru my FF browser or just using the url of Youtube video internally within OBS? I'm new.

Also, I wasn't sure how to to stop Youtube video's continuing to play within OBS after I had finished 'stop recording', so I resolved this via the Source section using Minus key, was there a better way to do that?

 

[koala]

The browser source within OBS is a completely separate, self-contained browser that has nothing to do with any other browser you may have installed on your computer. You are able to interact with what is shown within that browser by right-clicking the source and choosing "interact".

You are able to deactivate/activate any existing source by clicking on the eye-icon next to the name.