Closed
Bug 1517284
Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
Autoplay blocked even with the option turned OFF by default
Categories
(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1513039
People
(Reporter: okazki98, Unassigned)
References
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install the latest Nightly build or refresh (if already installed) to get a clean profile.
2. Note that in Options the "Block ... automatically playing media with sound" option is unchecked.
3. Open a website where videos are auto-playing by default (e.g: YouTube, Vimeo).
4. After the video started, reload the page.
As an alternate way on step(3): open a video from google.com search results.
Actual results:
Video blocked from playing. The user has to go to Options, turn the "Block ... automatically playing media with sound" option ON and then turn it OFF again to make the videos behave as expected.
Test on my PC: https://youtu.be/2uwdOAjtHMA
Expected results:
Correction on Expected results:
If the "Block ... automatically playing media with sound" option is FALSE, then allow all media to be automatically played (with exceptions).
If the "Block ... automatically playing media with sound" option is TRUE, then do not allow any media to be automatically played(with exceptions).
Comment 2•6 years ago
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Thanks. I was able to reproduce in a fresh profile --> confirming.
(I was not able to reproduce in a profile where I had toggled the block-autoplay checkbox on and then off. But if I've never touched that checkbox in a brand new profile, then I do see this bug.)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
Comment 3•6 years ago
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The checkbox issue will be fixed in bug1513039.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 4•6 years ago
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OK, thanks!
Here's a comment I was about to post before I noticed comment 3:
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The most recent behavior-change here was in bug 1512283.
Before that change (e.g. in Nightly 2018-12-05), we'd show a notification asking the user if they wanted to allow autoplay. (And if they allow it, then it's allowed by default on reload as well.)
After that change (e.g. in Nightly 2018-12-06):
- autoplay is blocked, with an icon but no notification.
- if you click the icon, the site identity panel does tell you that it was blocked, with a gear to customize it (nice)
- ...but if you click the gear, you can see the "Block websites from automatically playing media with sound" option is *unchecked*.
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Anyway, it seems the checkbox was just incorrect here, IIUC, and we do in fact intend to block by default (and the UI will reflect that better as of bug 1513039 I guess).
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