1528789 - Block autoplay appears to be reset after upgrade

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Audio/Video, defect, P2)

Description

[Andreas Bovens [:abovens]]

There are some user reports (Google Play reviews) about the "Block autoplay" setting not surviving an APK upgrade.

I did a quick check on my phone, and to my surprise, "Allow autoplay" was turned on on my device, even although I was 90% sure I had set it to "block" at an earlier point in time.

Can we investigate if this is an issue?

Comment 1

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Hi, Andreas,
What version are you using now? What version updating causes the problem, from release 64 to 65?
Thank you!

Comment 2

[Andreas Bovens [:abovens]]

I'm using Nightly 67.

Comment 3

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

Do you mean now your Nightly won't block autoplay by default? I just updated my Android Nightly to the latest version via google play store, but the default setting is still blocking autoplay.

Comment 4

[Andreas Bovens [:abovens]]

Yeah, that's what I mean. If you cannot reproduce, then I guess it can be closed.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

bug 1527637? Seems like we may have regressed it in 65, fixed in 66.

Comment 6

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Hi Nils, is this something that could have been caught by Telemetry in release/beta/nightly? I am wondering how our telemetry data pipeline can serve us better. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Nils Ohlmeier [:drno]]

(In reply to Ritu Kothari (:ritu) from comment #6)

Hi Nils, is this something that could have been caught by Telemetry in release/beta/nightly? I am wondering how our telemetry data pipeline can serve us better. Thanks!

Alastor knows our Telemetry data around block autoplay better then me. If we had a bug in there would this have been visible in our Telemetry data?

Comment 8

[Alastor Wu [:alwu]]

It seems to me that Telemetry is not used to catch this kinds of error.

Ah, I think that the issue might be caused by we changing the default blocking autoplay way for Fennec in bug1520663.

Now Firefox Android would align to desktop with using the user-gesture-activation model for blocking autoplay policy. If user would like to use the old way, they can turn off the pref media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed.