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firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:57:37 GMT

Lot of articles in www.onet.pl portal have embedded videos. I dont want play this videos.
my default privacy settings are set to block audio and video and no exceptions are set.(only about:welcome but it ant be deleted)

Unfortunatly videos still start to play automaticly.

Any suggestions welcome.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Mizar — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:37:41 GMT

Type in about:config and search for autoplay.

Set media.autoplay.blocking_policy to 1 and media.autoplay.default to 0

Tell me how it went.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:14:13 GMT

No changes. Still start to play.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Mizar — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:19:07 GMT

Ok, now try toggling services.sync.prefs.sync.media.autoplay.default to false.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:29:38 GMT

No changes. Still start to play.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Agentvirtuel — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 17:43:39 GMT

Hello

Try ?
media.autoplay.blocking_policy 1
media.autoplay.default 5

Other topic
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/add-a-way-to-block-autoplay-video/idc-p/47186/highlight/true#M27373

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:31:07 GMT

that values was before i make changes suggested by @Mizar but now (after changes again) look like did his job. Autoplay stop on first frame

current settings:

services.sync.prefs.sync.media.autoplay.default - false

media.autoplay.blocking_policy - 1
media.autoplay.default - 5

thankyou for solution

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Mizar — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:03:56 GMT

Glad to have helped.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:33:01 GMT

I applied these settings on another computer. It works

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

trennor — Mon, 20 May 2024 02:08:16 GMT

Doesn't work on my Mac, version 126.0; videos still autoplay?! I don't want autoplay, I want autoSTOP and none of these solutions work. I shouldn't have to DO this; there should be a working menu in settings for rather than mucking around in about:config, but that's disappeared, not that it worked anyway. This is ridiculous!

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Mizar — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:07:41 GMT

@trennor

Set media.autoplay.blocking_policy to 2 and media.autoplay.default to 5 (this one reenables the aforementioned option).

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

trennor — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:23:09 GMT

Okay, that finally got it; I'd previously set that value to 5 however some of the ways of doing that were put forward as wrong. I still think this is too convoluted a method as this should be controlled by a simple on/off switch in settings; why is that so hard?!

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Mizar — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:36:54 GMT

A myriad of reasons, one of them being Firefox on Mac can't use Gecko and is forced to use Apple's engine.
I do agree with you however, things should be less complicated as not everyone is a power user.

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

Agentvirtuel — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:14:37 GMT

Hello

@tos18 wrote:
about:welcome

For information purposes
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/auto-play-settings/m-p/56020

Re: firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

SylvesterBullit — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:31:56 GMT

I don't understand the supposed solution that looks like you have to specify values somewhere. I just used the standard permissions dialog (image attached). This particular one is for abcnews.com, but if I recall correctly I can't block autoplay anywhere.

What am I doing wrong?