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firefox dont block video play even if autoplay is prohibited

tos18
Making moves

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.

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tos18
Making moves

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

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Mizar
Familiar face

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.

tos18
Making moves

No changes. Still start to play.

Mizar
Familiar face

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

tos18
Making moves

No changes. Still start to play.

 

 

Agentvirtuel
Contributor

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#M2...

tos18
Making moves

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

Mizar
Familiar face

Glad to have helped.

tos18
Making moves
I applied these settings on another computer. It works

trennor
Making moves

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!

@trennor 

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

trennor
Making moves

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?!

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.

Agentvirtuel
Contributor

Hello

 


@tos18 wrote:

about:welcome


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

SylvesterBullit
Making moves

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?