5 ms·
Firefox provides the "media.autoplay.enabled" setting, which can be disabled. It's a very difficult setting to implement correctly, but it works most of the tim
by coldpie 11y ago
Firefox provides the "media.autoplay.enabled" setting, which can be disabled. It's a very difficult setting to implement correctly, but it works most of the time. The larger trouble is that many websites, including YouTube, expect autoplay to work and act slightly wonky when it doesn't.
Edit: Have some bug links
Original reporter suggesting the setting should apply to HTML5 media. Includes a very long discussion of the problem and why it's difficult: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285
Bug about websites that assume autoplay works, marked invalid because those websites shouldn't(?) make that assumption: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173848 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173848
- zamalek 11y agoThank you! > act slightly wonky when it doesn't. I would hope so. Autoplay videos are fraught with discrimination: "live in a country where bandwidth is expensive? Fuck you, have an autoplay video." I hope browsers move toward having autoplay as default "off" in the future.
- freehunter 11y agoI visited a site that was linked here recently and they not only had an autoplaying video, there was no way to pause it or stop it. The only option was to mute the video, while it still played. Horrible. That's why people use ad blockers.
- dredmorbius 11y agoMy canonical example is a PC World page on killing video autoplay ... with an autoplay video: https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/CQAJEyHG9qb https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/CQAJEyHG...
- dredmorbius 11y agoChromium bug: "Disable video/audio autoplay" https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=514102 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=514102