Closed Bug 845268 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Videos should not autoplay on mobile devices

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Version:
19 Branch
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 493860

People

(Reporter: niels, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.56 Safari/537.17 Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the following URL on Firefox for Android: http://html5test.com/t/video/13.html Actual results: The video started playing automatically Expected results: While technically correct - the video element does have the autoplay attribute set - it should not start automatically. Because mobile devices are often used on slow connections with limited bandwidth and connections where the user has to pay for the data used, the user should be in control of playing video. Firefox should - at least when on a cellular connection - ignore the autoplay attribute and allow the user to manually start the video.
Essentially a dupe of
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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