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Allow sound toggle for website instead of requiring typing in exception

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Archmunky
Archmunky
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In Firefox 66, it is awesome that you allow us to block autoplaying sound by default. However, on sites where we want to allow sound, we have to go into the exceptions list and manually add the site. Please give us a simple control in the left drop-down menu that shows certificate, cookies, etc to allow sound for this site. Could even give us the choice to play sound temporarily or permanently.

In Firefox 66, it is awesome that you allow us to block autoplaying sound by default. However, on sites where we want to allow sound, we have to go into the exceptions list and manually add the site. Please give us a simple control in the left drop-down menu that shows certificate, cookies, etc to allow sound for this site. Could even give us the choice to play sound temporarily or permanently.

Gekose oplossing

I think it was some problem in my profile. I started with a clean profile and I got sound (still don't see the block autoplay icon yet). signed into firefox sync, let all settings get downloaded, restarted and tried again -- still getting sound. So I'm not sure what happened to the profile.

Thanks everyone!

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Wesley Branton
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This option already exists. If you go to a website that has autoplay blocked, you can toggle the permission from the lock menu at the left side of the location bar (see attached screenshot).

Archmunky
Archmunky Vraag-eienaar
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I'm running 66.0.3 and I don't see that toggle. I set the "Block websites from automatically playing sound" setting and when I go to a site that has a video with sound (that is not autoplaying), there is no sound when I play the video; I have to go in and add that site as an exception. This happens on both Windows and Linux as near as I can tell.

cor-el
cor-el
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You can click the block auto-play icon that shows in the screenshot Wesley posted to the left of the Control Center 'i' icon to disable the block. You can re-enable (Allow/Block) auto-play via another click on this icon.

Archmunky
Archmunky Vraag-eienaar
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That's what I'm saying; I don't have that option in that area. Video plays but no sound. Video plays with sound in chrome.

Archmunky
Archmunky Vraag-eienaar
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Maybe it's something on my end, though I can't imagine what that'd be. I would like to thank everybody for your help.  :)

Archmunky
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Gekose oplossing

I think it was some problem in my profile. I started with a clean profile and I got sound (still don't see the block autoplay icon yet). signed into firefox sync, let all settings get downloaded, restarted and tried again -- still getting sound. So I'm not sure what happened to the profile.

Thanks everyone!