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npr.org auto plays despite firefox setting as "block audio" or "block audio visual" using PC and surface pro.

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jgashmore

See above statement. Systems: Surface Pro win 11; Dell XPS Win 11

See above statement. Systems: Surface Pro win 11; Dell XPS Win 11

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Hello

Allow or block media autoplay in Firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

1 - Go to configuration editor https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-config-editor-firefox 2 - Enter a search term autoplay

media.autoplay.default 1 this correspond to the situation Block Audio media.autoplay.default 0 this correspond to the situation Allow Audio and Video media.autoplay.default 5 this correspond to the situation Block Audio and Video

About, media.autoplay.blocking_policy, you can test 2

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This problem with NPR audio and video autoplaying despite Firefox Autoplay setting set to "Block audio and video" started happening in the last couple of weeks to me as well on Firefox for Android 150.0

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