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I somehow managed to do it completely and flawlessly in Firefox after a day of effort and sheer hate for the fact that checking the box to keep videos from auto
by pessimizer 2y ago
I somehow managed to do it completely and flawlessly in Firefox after a day of effort and sheer hate for the fact that checking the box to keep videos from autoplaying didn't keep any videos from autoplaying. I've now forgotten how I did it and I'm afraid to change any config settings. I think I recall some diffing utility for firefox settings that I could hopefully use to figure out what I did.
It burns me up that the fact that I blocked autoplay reliably means that Firefox could do it, they just don't want to.
edit: I might have gotten the settings from a blog, but I have a strong feeling they might have been from combing the firefox bugtracker.
- cpeterso 2y agoFirefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio unless the user has clicked to play a video on the same page. There is definitely an arms race for ads that find holes in the autoplay heuristics. You might try setting the about:config settings “media.autoplay.default” to 5 and/or “media.autoplay.blocking_policy” to 2: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10434 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a785b4488af02cca062ec7c2c/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml#10421 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/e24277e20c492b4a78... If you think there is a Firefox bug, you can file a bug report and link it to this autoplay bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376321
- musicale 2y ago> Firefox is supposed to block autoplay of videos that have audio. I want a reliable way to block autoplay of all videos, whether or not they have audio.
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