Closed Bug 1124176 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add an item in config:about to stop autoplay of videos inserted by <video> tag

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
35 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 659285

People

(Reporter: teoteoteoteo, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150108202552

Steps to reproduce:

Everytime I open a new site, if a <video> element is present and has "autoplay" property set, the video automatically start!


Actual results:

The video is automatically played!


Expected results:

A button in the center should let me if I want to play it or not!
Severity: normal → major
In my opinion it's important to limit automatic play otherwise if I have a computer with an old hardware configuration I will not be able to surf the internet: every site is nowadays using autoplayed advertising videos!!!

We need only an option in about:config to disable the autoplay (and do not say the "media.autoplay.enabled" does it, because no video is blocking even with a false value! Look, for example, at https://www.paypal.com )
That pref works fine. Try this trivial example:

http://jsbin.com/qiqaniyeti/1/edit

What's much harder to do something about is websites that call .play() themselves. bug 659285 covers this.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Duplicate of bug: 659285
You are right ... the problem is that noone is caring about it ... What can we do to remember Firefox developers that we would like to see this problem fixed as soon as possible?
(In reply to teo from comment #3)
> You are right ... the problem is that noone is caring about it ... What can
> we do to remember Firefox developers that we would like to see this problem
> fixed as soon as possible?

Write to firefox-dev and explain in rational, data-driven terms why this is more important than the countless other projects we're working on. Everybody thinks their bug is the most important and must be fixed yesterday. Realistically, we have to make choices. If you think we're not making the right ones, write there about what you think *does* need to be prioritized, and why.
Forgot to post the list info: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Ahahah thank you for the link! I know the work is too much ... I will wait even though I think it is not a so hard modification that has to be postponed for 2 or more years ...
However ... I don't want to criticize your work ... I will wait! Thank you for answers and link! ;-)
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