Closed Bug 1373904 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

media.autoplay.enabled=false disables video playback at all

Categories

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

54 Branch
defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1382574

People

(Reporter: shalokshalom, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0 Build ID: 20170613173134 Steps to reproduce: 1) about:config 2) set media.autoplay.enabled to false 3) open a html5 video This is on Linux. Actual results: nothing Expected results: play the video
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Product: Firefox → Core
media.autoplay.enabled=false is to stop some websites to autoplay videos. Is autoplay stopped on this page? https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_video_autoplay
Flags: needinfo?(shalokshalom)
No and the issue does not appear on this page, i can see and hear this video.
Flags: needinfo?(shalokshalom)
I have a similar issue with Spotify's web player (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1323063#c2 )
Same issue as bug1382574.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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