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That sounds amazing. The only thing worse that autoplaying videos is 30 of them autoplaying at the same time. Let users opt-in to autoplay rather than opt-out.
by swebs 8y ago
That sounds amazing. The only thing worse that autoplaying videos is 30 of them autoplaying at the same time. Let users opt-in to autoplay rather than opt-out.
- wlesieutre 8y ago10% of users will be thrilled and the rest will switch back to Chrome where the internet still works how they expect it to.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoWhat was the reason that made the hypothetical 90% go for Firefox in the first place? This seems like the kind of feature one would expect when installing Firefox.
- wlesieutre 8y agoMobile addons, privacy respecting defaults, not wanting you to be logged into a Google account all the time? I don't think "makes imgur gifs stop playing" is going to attract more users than it drives away. By all means have that as an option, but it'd be a terrible default experience.
- plopz 8y agoMozilla demonstrated they don't care about retaining old users when they broke all the extensions in 57.
- wlesieutre 8y agoIf you made videos stop playing, users could switch to Chrome as a fix when their gifs stopped playing. Firefox 57 changed to using a more limited extension system like Chrome already had, so it's not like users could jump ship to Chrome to get back Firefox 56's more powerful extensions. You may not have liked or agreed with that change, but I don't think it actually drove people to alternative browsers. If anything they might have said "Well, I have to going extension browsing anyway to find new ones that work, maybe I'll take a look at the options in Chrome too."
- godshatter 8y agoIf I hadn't already been running Pale Moon on Windows, it would have made me switch to it.
- ndnxhs 8y agoAnd now a short time later they basically all work again but its better than ever and less work to maintain your extension.
- tracker1 8y agoNo kidding... I generally hit a few aggregation sites and open a dozen or so new tabs in the morning. Nothing is more annoying than finding the one playing audio... or worse when you get to the tab which had auto-play video (muted) and had already passed the video in the link I'd even been interested in and onto something unrelated.