Videos on mouseover dont play
Hallo everyone,
after many hours of Google search and trying many changes in the "about:config" section im done with things to try so my last chance is here.
The problem i have is that videos dont play if i mouseover the firefox window or tab i.E. on the windows taskbar. The video will only start to play if i click on the window/tab and that window/tab is the "active" one im looking at.
It worked fine before but some firefox update f***ed this up (and yes the official firefox updates are the only thing that changed), no i dont know which update it was because i didnt recognize the problem right away.
The autoplay option is set to allow media and audio.
The weird thing is that when i open a video in the vlc player and do the mouseover, everything works just fine. So my conclusion is that some setting was messed up on the new firefox version.
Some data of my pc, everything is updated: - Windows 11 Pro - CPU is AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3,4GHz - GPU is AMD Radeon RX 7900XT - RAM is 32GB DDR4 CL16 - Internet is wired connection with 250K speed - Firefox Version is 137.0.1
Sorry for my bad english and thank you in advance.
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I don't think Firefox is designed to work like VLC. Maybe it works like other web browsers most of the time.
How is the video tab being opened in the first place?
Did you switch off the feature to block autoplay until the video's tab is activated? That's here:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button accepting the risk.
More info on about:config: Configuration Editor for Firefox. The moderators would like us to remind you that changes made through this back door aren't fully supported and aren't guaranteed to continue working in the future.
(2) In the search box in the page, type or paste media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the preference to switch the value from true to false
@jscher2000 media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground was set to true, but after i changed it to false (pc restart) nothing changed
As i said in my first post it worked before, the only thing that changed is that i installed the latest update as soon as firefox told me there is an update available.
So either has firefox removed that feature entirely or some settings have changed on the new version/update that stops that feature by default.
Im not an expert in any case, just a daily user (im using firefox for nearly 20 years now) so i can only tell you what was before and what is now.
Once again sorry for my bad english, i hope it was somewhat understandable :)
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