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a half a day of googling for people who have solved the problem, and experimenting with 3 different chrome extensions and some under the hood settings. i'm a b

a half a day of googling for people who have solved the problem, and experimenting with 3 different chrome extensions and some under the hood settings. i'm a back-end developer, but it seems like unless you're going to go as far as using the noscript extension, there's no way to stop the various video injection scripts. but I only used Chrome, so if Firefox is better I honestly might consider switching. I know Firefox has a mute-all-tabs-by-default setting/addon , which mitigates a lot of my problems with web video.

elipsey 8y ago
Following up. I was doing it wrong. They changed the config schema for this stuff as of FF63. This post explains how to use the new controls properly, which worked for me: https://www.howtogeek.com/341690/how-to-prevent-videos-from-autoplaying-in-firefox/ https://www.howtogeek.com/341690/how-to-prevent-videos-from-... I have now a permission pop-up to allow autoplay, which remembers pref on a per site basis. Btw this is FF64, from ubuntu repo: $ apt policy firefox firefox: Installed: 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 GLHF.