Stop ALL videos autoplaying - not just those with sound
Previously I had the 'autoplay' option set to false. Now with the update (I'm on 63.0.1, Windows, 64 bit) I have
media.autoplay.default = 1 media.autoplay.ask-permission = true media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = true
I want all videos to not play, not just those with sound. How can I stop all videos playing?
Thanks.
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Also... why does me typing "about:con..." auto complete to "about:config/"? It doesn't work with the trailing slash!!
ChrompSquad said
Also... why does me typing "about:con..." auto complete to "about:config/"? It doesn't work with the trailing slash!!
I dunno. Edit it to About:Config and go.
Video Autoplay: See
You may have once typed about:config/ with a slash appended.
You can use these steps to remove saved items from an autocomplete drop-down list.
- click the (empty) input field on the web page to open the drop-down list
- highlight an entry in the drop-down list with cursor Down key
do not click the mouse or press the Enter key - press the Delete key (on Mac: Shift+Delete) to delete the highlighted entry
Note that hovering with the mouse no longer works.
See also:
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
cor-el said
You may have once typed about:config/ with a slash appended. You can use these steps to remove saved items from an autocomplete drop-down list.Note that hovering with the mouse no longer works.
- click the (empty) input field on the web page to open the drop-down list
- highlight an entry in the drop-down list with cursor Down key
do not click the mouse or press the Enter key- press the Delete key (on Mac: Shift+Delete) to delete the highlighted entry
That's the bizarre thing - "about:config" is in the list, but not "about:config/"
Oh ok, I fixed it - I had saved "about:config" as a bookmark, and Firefox was helpfully putting the "/" on the end. I deleted the bookmark (which did NOT have the "/" on it, by the way), and now it doesn't autocomplete.
Pj said
ChrompSquad saidAlso... why does me typing "about:con..." auto complete to "about:config/"? It doesn't work with the trailing slash!!I dunno. Edit it to About:Config and go.
Video Autoplay: See
Autoplay is stopped for videos *with audio* only. I have changed that setting. I want videos *without audio* to not autoplay as well. The old pref did that. The new one does not.
cor-el said
See also:
- Disable HTML5 Autoplay
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/disable-autoplay/
That one works, thanks. Edit - nope, some stuff still autoplays on imgur.
Seems really odd that they put in a new pref, which does less than the old one, and that you need an addon to fix it.
ChrompSquad moo ko soppali ci
No, for muted videos you can change media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. You don't need an addon.
TyDraniu said
No, for muted videos you can change media.autoplay.allow-muted to false. You don't need an addon.
Do you know what, this still doesn't work.
https://imgur.com/gallery/8y6sleb for example
Change default to 2 and block-event to true.
This video doesn't play by default for me with the pref set to 1.
- media.autoplay.default = 1
- https://imgur.com/gallery/8y6sleb