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firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful
by the8472 10y ago
firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false
additionally the dom.audiochannel.mutedByDefault and media.default_volume settings may also be useful if you want slightly different behavior.
If you want a more blunt tool you can also use content blockers to block media content until you opt into it for a particular site.
> I know there are plugins than can somewhat do this, but no solutions are universal or great.
How so? There are about a dozen FF addons covering different use-cases like muting inactive tabs or all tabs but a designated one. If none of them meet your particular expectations that might also indicate that everyone wants something different and it is difficult for browser vendors to cover all expectations. Maybe you should modify an existing addon instead to do what you want.
- petre 10y agoDid that buy youtube is still on autoplay.
- ivank 10y agohttps://gist.github.com/ivan/4a5c10930629f1c7b2a05857268c4c21 https://gist.github.com/ivan/4a5c10930629f1c7b2a05857268c4c2... if you want a userscript
- the8472 10y agoI just tried it on nightly and it worksforme(tm).
- pjc50 10y agoY'know, youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay to work.
- kevincox 10y agoYeah, if I know I'm going to a YT link I'm prepared for it. Unfortunately with the rise of URL shorteners I often don't know I'm going to a video site so I'm still undecided about whether I want the video to autoplay or not.
- julenx 10y agoWhen you visit a video explicitly, yes. But when you jump into a specific channel you don't want a default video auto-playing all the time, which is pretty annoying.
- anc84 10y agoBlame Youtube for that horrible feature, not the browser.
- Whitestrake 10y agoNobody claimed it was anyone else's fault, that's already well established. The entire premise of this thread is to discuss OP's plea for browsers to actually fix the problem.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoI never want youtube to Autoplay.
- out_of_protocol 10y agoNot me for sure. Autoplay-after-autoplay makes it even more hilarious
- johnnydoebk 10y ago>> youtube is one of the few sites where people actually want autoplay Not me. I usually open a few tabs at the same time and have to stop every video manually. That's pretty annoying. I wish it didn't have autoplay.
- baddox 10y agoYouTube doesn't start playing a video until you focus the tab.
- johnnydoebk 10y agoThat's not true for all browsers. As @ben_bai pointed out above it works that way on Chromium.
- ben_bai 10y agoChromium is the Browser you want. You can load a bunch of tabs an it only starts autoplay when you finally switch to the tab you want to watch.
- gkya 10y agoBest viewed with IE (tm), revisited.
- sesqu 10y agoThe YouTube Plus add-on has an option to turn off YT autoplay, as well as a number of other quality-of-life things.
- fungi 10y agobreaks vimeo and twiter vids. need firefox addon with button to toggle the setting. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoplay-toggle/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoplay-togg...
- ynak 10y agoI'm taking a more drastic way; turning media.{mp4, webm, ...}.enabled into False never let YouTube and other media autoplay(even play nomally) without any addons. When I want to watch videos, download them by youtube-dl and watch locally.
- qtk 10y agoWhy would you want that?
- goodplay 10y agoOne good reason for me personally is to insure future availability. As I type this, there are a couple of videos in my watch-later playlist that have been replaced with "video removed".
- muntoo 10y agoMy Watch Later is like 100 videos long. Ain't nobody got time for that.
- morganvachon 10y agoYou're posting on HN, I would think you would find a way to automate it. ;-)
- goodplay 10y agoI believe youtube-dl is capable of downloading entire lists, but I don't know if the watch-later list behaves as a normal list. One way to find out.
- jerf 10y agoyoutube-dl can download lists of videos. It also automatically doesn't download things you already have, so it can be used periodically to sync the list if you want. It only really matters if you expect videos to go down, but I also have my small collection of "videos that were obviously going to be taken down".
- rch 10y agoThe good thing about setting browser defaults is that people producing these offending sites eventually give up and change their behavior.
- whyoh 10y ago>firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false That doesn't always work. Some videos don't play at all (even when clicked) and some others play automatically anyway (rare, but it happens).
- duaneb 10y ago> firefox -> about:config -> media.autoplay.enabled = false Unfortunately, this isn't available for devices with a monopolized browser. (iOS)
- beambot 10y agoSo make another Ask HN post: "Dear Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS: Please End Monopolized Browsers for our devices"
- duaneb 10y agoThat wouldn't contribute anything to the conversation.
- vurpo 10y agoIt would be more like "Dear Apple: Please End Monopolized Browsers for our devices" Google's and MS's operating systems don't monopolize the browser. I'm not sure if Mozilla is even making an OS anymore. The only OS in this day and age which doesn't let you implement your own browser engine is iOS.
- skrowl 10y agoI can't tell you how many iOS users are tricked by "Oh, I can get Chrome and Firefox on iOS" that don't realize it's just skinned webkit. Totally dishonest.
- BoorishBears 10y agoI'm actually impressed that Chrome on iOS manages to be less stable than Safari since it's using the same engine...