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YouTube autoplays just fine in firefox. What did you mean?
by jamesdwilson 7y ago
YouTube autoplays just fine in firefox. What did you mean?
- vmateixeira 7y agoAnd that's exactly the problem.. it used to be very hard to block just a few weeks ago.
- jamesdwilson 7y agoSorry, what do you mean? How can I block autoplaying yt vids in firefox?
- Hitton 7y agoI use "Enhacer for Youtube" extension.
- vmateixeira 7y agoYes, these kind of extensions just used to take advantage of the existing properties.
- vmateixeira 7y agoYou could get to it through about:config (so.. a little difficult for the common user to reach) media.autoplay.enabled media.autoplay.allow-muted They then changed to media.autoplay.default media.autoplay.block-webaudio media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed And removed the previous parameters, which caused the videos to start playing automatically again, until you would configure the new properties (again, only though about:config). Finally, they're now providing a menu option for achieving the same, which deserves to be applauded.
- tomComb 7y agoYes, I have allowed autoplay on the video sites, but it is now click-to-enable on all those others sites that are just using it for ads. Go to about:config in Firefox, and change "media.autoplay.allow-muted" to false. Chrome has shut down auto-play on any video with sound (excepting video specific sites) and they have a flag "Autoplay policy" which was partially successful, but not as effective as the blocking in Firefox.