1323063 - Setting media.autoplay.enabled to false results in media not playing when it should

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1412772

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect, P3)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I set media.autoplay.enabled to false to prevent media form automatically playing, but now i need to click on video links 4 times to get it to play.

Comment 1

[Alexander]

I think we definitely need a list of media that tried to autoplay and allow individual streams to play if we so desire. I think there's little value in trying to guess when something sohuld or should not play. Just let user enable individual streams.

Comment 2

[Jehan Bruggeman]

I experience a similar issue and believe it could be considered related:

When media.autoplay.enabled is "false", Spotify web player does not work any more, i.e. using the "play" button does not result in the media being played. Instead, nothing happens.

I have toggled "media.autoplay.enabled" a few times and, indeed, when autoplay is enables Spotify web player does work.

Comment 4

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

This issue is about UI status, it should be duplicated to bug1412772.

The issue on comment2 is about bug1382574.