AH, remember the good old days when Firefox was still relevant?
(Written in FF, which is my main runner. Said with a touch of sarcasm, a touch of wistfulness, and a refusal to give up hope.)
Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
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Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#42AH, remember the good old days when Firefox was still relevant? (Written in FF, which is my main runner. Said with a touch of sarcasm, a touch of wistfulness, and a refusal to give up hope.)
it's the best mobile browser now, since it supports uBlock Origin.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some games have Ctrl as their crouch key.
Do you know of any browser games that use Ctrl as the crouch key? That's the interface under discussion.
https://play-cs.com uses ctrl for crouching when you're in fullscreen mode
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#44How do I fully disable picture-in-picture? I don't want websites to show me a mini player on firefox!
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#45I would prefer that audio require explicit opt-in, not just interaction. The biggest offender I regularly encounter is not even what I would normally consider an evil website: npr.org
My browser never plays audio which I do not explicitly request. That would be madness! This is my preferred interface for NPR news, and it might address your issue also: https://text.npr.org/
What browser, and how did you configure that?
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#46Interesting, that scrolling page (or even clicking scrollbar) counts as user interaction and is often used to work around autoplay blocking.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#47The correct solution to this problem is to allow websites to require sound. Add a HTML meta tag that tells the browser "Hey, this page won't load properly without sound, so ask the user if they want to enable sound, or navigate away". If the user really wants to load the page without sound, they can override it in about:config. All of the other solutions are dumb and I can't believe browser vendors have settled for t…
I hate the way the auto blocking is implemented.
There is no API to detect that auto blocking is enabled and manual intervention is needed.
You are forced to play a fake audio tag with sound and detect that it's event does not fire. This is impossible, so you do it with a timeout and throw your hands up.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
My browser never plays audio which I do not explicitly request. That would be madness! This is my preferred interface for NPR news, and it might address your issue also: https://text.npr.org/
What browser, and how did you configure that?
Firefox, with no explicit configuration for this purpose, but I suspect uBlock Origin and/or uMatrix may contribute.
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
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There are extensions that do that.
Which ones reliably work these days? (I have tried a few in past, none of them actually disabled all videos/popups with sound and moving content)
Here's the one I'm using.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-autop...
Re: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio (2019)
#50I would prefer that audio require explicit opt-in, not just interaction. The biggest offender I regularly encounter is not even what I would normally consider an evil website: npr.org
This is actually very easy to patch: https://github.com/openlab-aux/vuizvui/blob/61b943d89b08959e...
Essentially it's disabling gesture activation, so if you want to allow audio you need to do this explicitly. Note however, that whenever you directly visit a video file, audio will still play but this is very rarely the case.