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[nanis]

Curiosly, I just checked and I have:

* media.autoplay.default = 5

* media.autoplay.enabled = false

in my about:config but media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground was left at its default "true" value, so I changed that.

I am going to post this and restart the browser to see if that did the trick.

*Update*: No, it didn't. sigh

I found this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274056

> media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages false

> media.autoplay.block-event.enabled true

> media.autoplay.block-webaudio true

> media.autoplay.default 5

> media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed false

There is also this https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/h0rsd9/could_someo...

> media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2

seems to correspond to the media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed setting above. Will try those next.

*Last Update*: I have set:

    media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false
    media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true
    media.autoplay.block-webaudio = true
    media.autoplay.default = 5
    media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2

Thank you very much.

and that finally seems to have restored the behavior I want.

[eth0up → nanis]

Bravo! And thanks for the meticulous follow-up.

Edit: my config is approximately the same, so I apologise for not specifying them more thoroughly. Doing so with one finger and no copy/paste is onerous.

[sails → nanis]

Any adverse effects of this config? Thanks for detailing.

[eth0up → sails]

The only thing resembling adverse that I've noticed is:

1. Youtube requires two taps to activate video

2. Some news media videos, eg CNN, do not play. *This may result from adblocking; not sure and not motivated to pursue it.

[sails → eth0up]

Thanks, I've only noticed some non YT web videos won't play, but generally great.