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Stop autoplay music/audio embebed in emails

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JD
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Recently I've been getting emails which when opened, automatically start playing music. This is very annoying and intrusive, there is no warning or indication so when I am going though my emails, suddenly loud music start playing. I can't see anything in the settings to stop this. I don't want to silence the whole computer, or even Thunderbird, I would still like to get the normal notification sounds, I just want to mute/stop the automatic playing of embedded audio, ideally I would like an option to appear when I open the message, "click here to play embedded audio", but if that's not possible, just permanently stop all embedded audio playing.

Thanks JD

Recently I've been getting emails which when opened, automatically start playing music. This is very annoying and intrusive, there is no warning or indication so when I am going though my emails, suddenly loud music start playing. I can't see anything in the settings to stop this. I don't want to silence the whole computer, or even Thunderbird, I would still like to get the normal notification sounds, I just want to mute/stop the automatic playing of embedded audio, ideally I would like an option to appear when I open the message, "click here to play embedded audio", but if that's not possible, just permanently stop all embedded audio playing. Thanks JD

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

Thanks sfthowes, Changing media.autoplay.default to either 1 or 2 both stop the sound (and video) like I asked, but neither give me an obvious prompt to allow the playing, hover over the picture and the player controls pop up allowing me to play them. This does what I wanted but has the drawback that unless I hover over the image I don't know if it is a picture or a video. A nearby setting, "media.autoplay.allow-muted" looked like what I wanted but it is already set to "true". This got me thinking, there must be a default volume. I then found "media.default_volume", I set this to "0" and now the video plays with no sound, if I want sound I can turn it on in the slider beneath the video. Thanks again for your help JD

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Edit/Preferences/General/Config. editor, right-click media.autoplay.default and change it to 1 or 2 (blocked or prompt). Does that work?

JD
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Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

Thanks sfthowes, Changing media.autoplay.default to either 1 or 2 both stop the sound (and video) like I asked, but neither give me an obvious prompt to allow the playing, hover over the picture and the player controls pop up allowing me to play them. This does what I wanted but has the drawback that unless I hover over the image I don't know if it is a picture or a video. A nearby setting, "media.autoplay.allow-muted" looked like what I wanted but it is already set to "true". This got me thinking, there must be a default volume. I then found "media.default_volume", I set this to "0" and now the video plays with no sound, if I want sound I can turn it on in the slider beneath the video. Thanks again for your help JD