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Some sites, such as YouTube, don't start playing a video until you switch to the tab.

by mccr8 9y ago

JoshTriplett 9y ago
That hasn't been my experience with YouTube; middle-clicking to open a half-dozen videos in tabs starts all the videos playing at once.
- pfranz 9y ago
  Not sure if you're using Chrome or Firefox. I just tested FF 54 by alt-clicking a link. It loads and autoplays the non-active tab. Chrome v59, loads the page but doesn't autoplay until you switch to it. Chrome is my daily driver and I really prefer this behavior. But recent performance improvements, especially the handling of many, many tabs has me looking at FF again.
  - cpeterso 9y ago
    Firefox has the same feature, though it is currently enabled by default only in the Firefox Nightly channel. You can use the `media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground` about:config pref to enable it in the Beta or Release channels.
noselasd 9y ago
By default they do start playing immediately in Firefox. Configurable with the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground setting.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  Sorry but you got the wrong setting here. To disable autoplay it's media.autoplay.enabled
  - noselasd 9y ago
    media.autoplay.enabled toggles whether videos in the current (foreground) tab starts auto playing or not The question was about videos in a background tab, which is controlled by the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground setting.
    - JoshTriplett 9y ago
      Unfortunately, neither of those settings does quite what I'd like. Once a tab has been in the foreground, I'd like it to continue being able to play things in the background, including new things. (For instance, some sites play a chime for notifications.) I just don't want anything played from a tab that has never been in the foreground.
    - bigbugbag 9y ago
      Sadly mozilla provides no documentation for those settings, but I can assure you that this setting does not care if the tab is in the foreground or background, autoplay is simply disabled which it seems to me was what was asked here IIANM.
bigbugbag 9y ago
Some sites maybe, but definitely not youtube.

Some sites, such as YouTube, don't start playing a video until you switch to the tab.

by mccr8 9y ago

Some sites, such as YouTube, don't start playing a video until you switch to the tab.

That hasn't been my experience with YouTube; middle-clicking to open a half-dozen videos in tabs starts all the videos playing at once.

pfranz 9y ago
Not sure if you're using Chrome or Firefox. I just tested FF 54 by alt-clicking a link. It loads and autoplays the non-active tab. Chrome v59, loads the page but doesn't autoplay until you switch to it. Chrome is my daily driver and I really prefer this behavior. But recent performance improvements, especially the handling of many, many tabs has me looking at FF again.
- cpeterso 9y ago
  Firefox has the same feature, though it is currently enabled by default only in the Firefox Nightly channel. You can use the `media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground` about:config pref to enable it in the Beta or Release channels.

noselasd 9y ago

By default they do start playing immediately in Firefox. Configurable with the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground setting.

bigbugbag 9y ago
Sorry but you got the wrong setting here. To disable autoplay it's media.autoplay.enabled
- noselasd 9y ago
  media.autoplay.enabled toggles whether videos in the current (foreground) tab starts auto playing or not The question was about videos in a background tab, which is controlled by the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground setting.
  - JoshTriplett 9y ago
    Unfortunately, neither of those settings does quite what I'd like. Once a tab has been in the foreground, I'd like it to continue being able to play things in the background, including new things. (For instance, some sites play a chime for notifications.) I just don't want anything played from a tab that has never been in the foreground.
  - bigbugbag 9y ago
    Sadly mozilla provides no documentation for those settings, but I can assure you that this setting does not care if the tab is in the foreground or background, autoplay is simply disabled which it seems to me was what was asked here IIANM.

bigbugbag 9y ago

Some sites maybe, but definitely not youtube.