Ask HN: Anyone know how to turn off damn Video Autoplay in Firefox 67?

2 points by antocv 7y ago ↗ HN

VIDEO, not audio muted or turned off. Id really like to ditch google/chromium, opera has shitty tab handling, firefox I used before.

But this, videos always auto-play, even when about:config set media.autoplay to 1 and muted etc, Ive tried all settings.

Nothing stops videos from being auto-played post Firefox 65. I dont care about audio, there is anyway not a sound-card in this laptop.

Does anyone have a solution? An extension? A fork?

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?! I believe Firefox 67 should be doing that out of the box!

Have you tried to refresh the browser?

Type `about:config` in the address bar. Search for `allow-muted`, set that to false.

If that still doesn't work, check other related autoplay settings, like `media.autoplay.ask-permission`.