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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.autopl
by 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].
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1231886
- hammock 11y agoYou can also mute tabs in Firefox by clicking the little sound icon in the tab
- exodust 11y agoHow 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 agoGood 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/