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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.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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