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gdxr
gdxr

Hi there! I struggle with some irritating problem. I often open many tabs e.g. when I search something on YouTube or something. The problem is that they start playing video immediately even though I don't want to yet. There is one browser which do the job by default but I don't want to use it. Let me honestly say: I want to use Firefox! :)

Setting up media.autoplay.enabled to false completely destroys video playing. An add-on called flash-controll is equally useful as previous tip.

Any idea?

Hi there! I struggle with some irritating problem. I often open many tabs e.g. when I search something on YouTube or something. The problem is that they start playing video immediately even though I don't want to yet. There is one browser which do the job by default but I don't want to use it. Let me honestly say: I want to use Firefox! :) Setting up media.autoplay.enabled to false completely destroys video playing. An add-on called flash-controll is equally useful as previous tip. Any idea?

Chosen solution

Firefox 56, I think, plans to do this by default. You can do so now by going to about:config and setting media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground to true.

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mjb
mjb
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Chosen Solution

Firefox 56, I think, plans to do this by default. You can do so now by going to about:config and setting media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground to true.

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gdxr
gdxr Question owner

Finally!!! Big thanks!

Trennor Turcotte
Trennor Turcotte

This doesn't work in FF 57. Also, setting media.autoplay.enabled to "false" blocks YouTube so it won't play either automatically or manually in FF 57. And I don't know what the work-around is.