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fox news videos still play after selecting to block audio and video

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fox news videos still play after selecting to block audio and video and disabling autoplay

fox news videos still play after selecting to block audio and video and disabling autoplay

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Fox news... provide examples please.

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You can look at these prefs on the about:config page to see what settings work for you to block autoplay.

  • media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;5:blockAll]
  • media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2
  • media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false
  • media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.


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I am having the same problem with Fox News Website. Every other news web site, that I go to, has video auto play blocked but Fox News slips through. I have the proper configuration in about: config. Can anyone shed some light on this?

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Just go to foxnews.com and you'll have the examples you want.

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In addition to the preferences mentioned previously, you could also try making the following false: media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground

Modified by Terry