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Caution: article features autoplaying video with audio - hitting pause or mute redirected me to a different page with the same autoplaying video

by _xander 11y ago

tcfunk 11y ago
Yeah, same here. I had to right click the video and pause it that way.
colinbartlett 11y ago
I use the Flashcontrol extension for Chrome and found it greatly improved my browsing experience: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidmkgnfgnkihnjeklbekckimkipmoe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidm...
coldpie 11y ago
Firefox has two settings to help with this problem. On the Plugins page, you can set the Flash plugin to "Ask to Activate." Firefox also provides a media.autoplay.enabled setting to prevent auto-playing HTML5 video and audio, although it is slightly buggy because websites expect media to autoplay[1]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886
- hammock 11y ago
  You can also mute tabs in Firefox by clicking the little sound icon in the tab
  - exodust 11y ago
    How does that solve anything? Half the time we don't know videos are about to play, then suddenly a blast of sound comes out of the page. What we need is a way to mute the browser by default, with selective un-muting of particular tabs once we decide we want to hear them. An option to remember mute state for a whitelist of sites would be nice too. I'm amazed browser vendors don't offer this. All the fancy features they build, but this one has alluded them. Auto-playing videos are the worst thing about desktop web browsing. I cannot think of a worse problem.
    - hammock 11y ago
      Good points. Here's an add-on which can mute by default https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-tab/
js2 11y ago
Article text: http://pastebin.com/raw/FHLMzS0a http://pastebin.com/raw/FHLMzS0a

Caution: article features autoplaying video with audio - hitting pause or mute redirected me to a different page with the same autoplaying video

by _xander 11y ago

Caution: article features autoplaying video with audio - hitting pause or mute redirected me to a different page with the same autoplaying video

tcfunk 11y ago

Yeah, same here. I had to right click the video and pause it that way.

colinbartlett 11y ago

I use the Flashcontrol extension for Chrome and found it greatly improved my browsing experience: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidmkgnfgnkihnjeklbekckimkipmoe?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flashcontrol/mfidm...

coldpie 11y ago

Firefox has two settings to help with this problem. On the Plugins page, you can set the Flash plugin to "Ask to Activate." Firefox also provides a media.autoplay.enabled setting to prevent auto-playing HTML5 video and audio, although it is slightly buggy because websites expect media to autoplay[1]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886

hammock 11y ago
You can also mute tabs in Firefox by clicking the little sound icon in the tab
- exodust 11y ago
  How does that solve anything? Half the time we don't know videos are about to play, then suddenly a blast of sound comes out of the page. What we need is a way to mute the browser by default, with selective un-muting of particular tabs once we decide we want to hear them. An option to remember mute state for a whitelist of sites would be nice too. I'm amazed browser vendors don't offer this. All the fancy features they build, but this one has alluded them. Auto-playing videos are the worst thing about desktop web browsing. I cannot think of a worse problem.
  - hammock 11y ago
    Good points. Here's an add-on which can mute by default https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-tab/

js2 11y ago

Article text: http://pastebin.com/raw/FHLMzS0a http://pastebin.com/raw/FHLMzS0a