Closed Bug 1528534 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Video autoplays on abcnews pages

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Version:
65 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: github, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visit this page:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ways-protect-heart-disease-american-heart-month/story?id=61110773

Actual results:

Video starts autoplaying, with audio

Expected results:

Video should have been blocked from autoplaying, or at the very least no audio should be playing

I found a workaround: Set media.autoplay.default to 1

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0
20190216214513

(In reply to github from comment #0)

at the very least no audio should be playing

That's the case in the latest Nightly. Setting media.autoplay.allow-muted to false in about:config will disable autoplay altogether.

URL: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/ways-pr...
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Has STR: --- → yes
Closed: 5 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Audio/Video: Playback
Depends on: 1487844
Product: Firefox → Core
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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