Really stop autoplay in Firefox / Librefox
I am not sure who thought, that autoplay on music and videos is a good idea in a browser. Using my tablet on travel, it is just a joy to click on a link and some video starts entertaining everyone else but me. Firefox offers some toggles in the regular settings to deactivate autoplay, however I found, that it does not stop videos from playing in certain situations.
So what is the solution
Open a page with about:config
and set the following settings:
Setting | Value |
---|---|
media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages | false |
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled | true |
media.autoplay.blocking_policy | 2 |
media.autoplay.default | 5 |
This works for me in Firefox / Librefox and Firefox Mobile (nightly)