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Chrome doesn't autoplay videos in background tabs until you focus them.
by JeremyBanks 9y ago
Chrome doesn't autoplay videos in background tabs until you focus them.
- Whitestrake 9y agoFirefox likewise has toggles for disabling autoplay in background tabs (on by default) and disabling autoplay completely (off by default).
- nybble41 9y agoActually it doesn't even seem to load most of the page in a background tab until it's focused... which is also annoying. (Or perhaps it's just the parts hidden behind 'onload' JavaScript, which these days is most of the page content.) Part of the reason for opening the tab in the background is getting the lengthy loading process out of the way while I'm reading something else. For this reason I tend to activate the tab and then go back to what I was doing before... and then the video auto-plays.