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As somebody that opens a dozen HN tabs at once, I do not appreciate the automatic playing music.
by SquareWheel 14y ago
As somebody that opens a dozen HN tabs at once, I do not appreciate the automatic playing music.
- scrrr 14y agoYes, but you could have expected it when opening a music artist's page. The parameter in the URL is a little bit strange though.
- corin_ 14y agoNot really strange, the entire point of the page is tracking how this link spreads and therefore being able to track who gave the link to whoever clicks it is clearly useful information.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- jentulman 14y agoThat I can cope with, what's really annoying is that it stops playing if I minimize the window.
- CamperBob2 14y agoThe worst part of the whole experience is when you realize that there still is no visual indication in a Firefox tab when the page it contains is running a video or Flash script, or otherwise is making noise in a way that the browser engine can detect. Do any other mainstream browsers make it easier to find the tab that's responsible for making racket without madly clicking through all of them and/or closing every open browser window?
- mmcnickle 14y agoThe issue is that the plugin model means that Firefox has no way of knowing if sound is playing via a plugin. The plugins access the OS's sound layer directly. Edit: The relevant bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486262
- christianmann 14y agoExcept that it's not playing via a plugin. It's HTML5 audio. I feel as though this, at least, could be known and indicated.
- mmcnickle 14y agoThe objection [from the bug report] being that they don't want to introduce inconsistent behaviour depending on how the sound is being played (plugin vs HTML5 audio).
- xtdx 14y agoIf I don't like how a plugin works, I can uninstall the plugin. If I don't like how the browser works, I can... oh, I guess I can uninstall that too.
- MasterScrat 14y agoIn modern browsers it's possible for a webpage to change its favicon dynamically. Developers should take the habit of indicating their site is playing sound there.
- brittohalloran 14y agoGood luck with that. "Hey annoying people, it's best practice to let us know when you're being annoying".
- MasterScrat 14y agoTrue... It would still be a useful good practice for non-annoying websites. Sometimes you start a video somewhere but can't remember in which tab it is.
- circa 14y agoTo be fair.. its sponsored by IE! :(
- jaredsohn 14y agoIf you were using Chrome, my extension MuteTab (http://www.mutetab.com/ http://www.mutetab.com/) could help. It shows which tabs are playing HTML5 audio/video or have other plug-ins such as Flash. Unfortunately, it just provides a list and cannot tell you for certain if a tab is playing sound or not. (It could in theory indicate if HTML5 video/audio, some Flash sites such as YouTube, and QuickTime were playing sound, but I haven't implemented that portion at this time.)
- nicolasmiller 14y agoDitto. It conflicted annoyingly with what I already had playing. I managed to take in about four seconds of her vocal before realizing that it was unspeakably bland.
- possibilistic 14y agoWhat sort of vocals do you like? Any examples? Just curious with regard to your qualitative opinion here. I happen to like this, but I won't judge. To each their own.
- unconed 14y agoAs somebody who uses Safari, the fact that it doesn't "activate" Flash until you focus the tab is one of its best features.
- ars 14y agoI actually find that annoying - I like to open videos in the background to let them queue up (and/or let the adroll finish). I've seen Firefox on windows too this too - do you know how to disable it?
- X-Istence 14y agoThe flash plugin itself is not actually loaded until the tab gets focus.
- SquareWheel 14y agoI use click-to-play in Chrome, but this doesn't use Flash.
- thebigshane 14y agoFlashBlock extension is pretty good for this (if of course the music/video is flash based)
- ojiikun 14y agoWould you any more go to a 3rd-world country without appropriate immunizations than you browse the public Internet without appropriate flash-blocking plugins?
- jacalata 14y agoand just like your immunizations won't save you from a gunshot, flash-blocking is useless here against html5.