Stop websites from automatically playing videos with Firefox new autoplay controls

Now you can control website that auto plays video, audio contents with the latest Firefox update, with this feature you don’t have to worry about annoying and data hungry auto plays that some website tend to embedd.

Perhaps the greatest offender of internet etiquette today is video autoplay. Be it an ad, a YouTube video or a site that just can’t wait to tell you all about itself, autoplay video is an annoyance.

How Firefox Stops Websites Auto plays

1~ Blocking Auto playing contents automatically

If you find yourself on a site that autoplays video or audio Firefox will now stop the autoplay before it can start. If you’d like to hear or see it, just click on the play button to watch it. It’s easy to do and makes noisy sites mind their manners. If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or another social media site, they tend to automatically mute video content. Block Autoplay won’t stop the video from playing and instead the video will play without sound as the sites intend them to.

However if you’re watching a series on Netflix, Hulu, Crave or other streaming services, once you hit play on one video, the others will play continuously and let you get your binge on just as the site intends. If you want to just jump in every time, you can add them to your permissions list so that they automatically play from the get-go. Head to the Block Autoplay control centre (the circle with the lowercase i in your Firefox URL bar) to set your permissions to your tastes.

2~ Muting Tabs Still Active

If a site does manage to get it’s autoplay going on, you still have a line of defense from unwanted sounds. Firefox lets you identify noisy tabs and mute them in a single click. Click the speaker to turn the sound off or on for that tab.

The latest update from Firefox will go a long way to curtail autoplays and pop up videos that most review websites/blogs enforce on visitors.

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