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youtube does not automatically play the video when i open it in a new tab

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johnnylogen replied
johnnylogen
johnnylogen

it's really just this. it used to work just fine. i restarted my pc and disabled all my addons to make sure. works fine on chrome. any ideas?

it's really just this. it used to work just fine. i restarted my pc and disabled all my addons to make sure. works fine on chrome. any ideas?

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Wesley Branton
Wesley Branton

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This is because of Firefox's new autoplay blocking feature. You can allow YouTube to automatically start playing videos by giving it permission (see the page I linked).

You will also need to set the media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground preference to false in the Configuration Editor to allow Firefox to start playing videos in background tabs.

Hope this helps.

johnnylogen
johnnylogen Question owner

This absolutely helped! Thanks a ton.