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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by pfranz on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:08PM (#14824415)
I'm pretty sure it's a Chrome-specific lazy autoplaying of html5 video. I really like to alt-click Youtube links (so the page is loaded and queued), put my headphones on and switch over when I'm ready.
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by cyphar on Saturday July 22, 2017 @02:27AM (#14825729)
Firefox does this too. It's on by default for Firefox Nightly and an opt-in preference in the other update channels.
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by bigbugbag on Saturday July 22, 2017 @06:46AM (#14826462)
So what you say is that firefox does not do this. (unless you go deep in about:config which is highly discouraged by mozilla).
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by cyphar on Saturday July 22, 2017 @07:25AM (#14826628)
Firefox Nightly does, and it's not done by default in non-nightly (but you can enable it with "media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground"). I imagine it will become the default eventually.

"Firefox doesn't do this" is not a valid one-sentence summary of what I just said.

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