July 05, 2020, 11:36 AM
PatenLatest Firefox version broke autoplay off
The latest Firefox came out on July 1st and broke my autoplay settings. It was a little weird because it was inconsistant. If I opened a link to a youtube video in an existing tab, the video would autoplay. If I opened it in a new tab then it wouldn't play. After 5 days of this pissing me off, I finally found the settings to adjust on Reddit.
77 > 78 update: autoplay setting migration issue quote:
Just a heads-up for fellow autoplay haters - it appears the now superceded media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = false setting is getting migrated to media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 1. This may lead to an unexpected change in autoplay behaviour, with videos autoplaying in situations where they weren't previously.
The corresponding setting is actually media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2, based on my testing and what's said in bug 1509933.