Firefox 66 will come with automatic audio blocking

Mozilla plans to incorporate a protective feature in Firefox 66, which will isolate the audio to automatic replication.

Ο that automatically plays along with a video is definitely one of the most annoying experiences users can have, especially when it's unexpected. Mozilla for this reason and starting with Firefox 66, will prevent websites from playing audio automatically.

This is a feature already present in Chrome from version 64 onwards. So Firefox will block the media as well σε ιστότοπους, εάν η αναπαρ on that site is enabled to play automatically. And it won't block anything if the playback media is muted.

Of course, you'll be able to set this feature through the About about: preferences # privacy page. There you have to go down to the Permissions section to enter your preferences.

The “Block websites from automatically playing sound” option play audio) determines whether autoplay of media with audio is blocked or not, in the browser.

Clicking on the Exceptions button opens the list of exceptions to the rule. You can add to your list of websites that you allow to violate your setting.

Firefox users can also control the auto-play sound in the Location Info dialog box. Just click on the "i" icon next to the webpage to display options for controlling its behavior.

There you will find the new list of "autoplay sound" rights, if the site in the active tab tried to play a sound automatically.

Select "allow" to allow playback or "block" if the default setting in Firefox allows automatic audio playback.

Firefox users can block autoplay media through the permissions page about: config

  • media.autoplay.blocked set it to 1 (means blocked).
  • media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed set it to true.
  • media.autoplay.allow-muted set it to false.
  • media.autoplay.block-webaudio set it to true.

The above settings differ from the default configuration, which simply prevents automatic media playback with sound.

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