Join the Mozilla’s Test Days event from Dec 2–8 to test the new Firefox address bar on Firefox Beta 134 and get a chance to win Mozilla swag vouchers! 🎁

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

The info I was emailed about "block autoplay" is confusing. Why do I have to download Firefox again to get it? I just want to add it.

  • 2 பதிலளிப்புகள்
  • 1 இந்த பிரச்சனை உள்ளது
  • 14 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

I received the email from Firefox about adding "AutoPlay Block" which I want as these irritate me. Since I already have Firefox why can't I just add the blocking extension itself. Why do I have to download Firefox again as it says? States "download Firefox with autoblock".

I received the email from Firefox about adding "AutoPlay Block" which I want as these irritate me. Since I already have Firefox why can't I just add the blocking extension itself. Why do I have to download Firefox again as it says? States "download Firefox with autoblock".

தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

This is probably merely about a hotfix to flip the media.autoplay.default pref from 0 (allowed) to 1 (blocked) with the result of disabling auto-play by default.

You can instead modify the pref yourself on the about:config page.

You can look at these prefs on the about:config page to see if these values work for you.

  • media.autoplay.default = 1 [0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt]
  • media.autoplay.allow-muted = false
  • media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = false

For user-gestures-needed you can try false and true to see what works for you.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.


Bug 1535667 - Gradual rollout of block autoplay on release 66

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
)

Read this answer in context 👍 0

All Replies (2)

Are you sure that came from Mozilla?

. Whenever you get a message / popup that software / files need to be updated;

DO NOT USE ANY OF THE PROVIDED LINKS

While this may be a legitimate message, it could also be Malware or a Virus. Anytime you want or need to check for upgrades, go to the website of the True Owner of the program in question. For example, to check out Firefox, go to https://www.mozilla.org {web link}

You can report such a site at; Google Report Phishing Page {web link} which is the same when done while on site by going to Help > Report Web Forgery

Help us safeguard Mozilla’s trademarks by reporting misuse {web link}

For over a year, an epidemic of Fake Update Notices have been popping up all over the place. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/forum-response-i-found-fake-firefox-update

தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

This is probably merely about a hotfix to flip the media.autoplay.default pref from 0 (allowed) to 1 (blocked) with the result of disabling auto-play by default.

You can instead modify the pref yourself on the about:config page.

You can look at these prefs on the about:config page to see if these values work for you.

  • media.autoplay.default = 1 [0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt]
  • media.autoplay.allow-muted = false
  • media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed = false

For user-gestures-needed you can try false and true to see what works for you.

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I accept the risk!" to continue.


Bug 1535667 - Gradual rollout of block autoplay on release 66

(please do not comment in bug reports
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
)

cor-el மூலமாக திருத்தப்பட்டது