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Re:Firefox 64 Released by mintplant on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:57PM (#18658786)
> Next I moved to Firefox, which in an update a few months ago changed the autoplay option to be on, removed the config attribute and made it a new one, which has as options 0, 1 and 2. Turned out autoplay default should be 1.

I don't understand what you mean here. Without having changed any of the settings from the default, Firefox (Nightly) pops up to ask me if I want to "allow auto-playing media with sound" the first time each website tries to do it. If I say no, the media doesn't auto-play.

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Re:Firefox 64 Released by mancerayder on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:02PM (#18658852)
Right. Well I'm referring to always turning it off, and the option very specifically is: media.autoplay.default

if 0, then it's on.

if 1, then it's off.

2, I'm not sure.

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Re:Firefox 64 Released by daleharvey on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:21PM (#18659010) 

    pref("media.autoplay.default", 2); // 0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/p...
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Re:Firefox 64 Released by Misdicorl on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:10PM (#18659442)
Curious: How is a prompt ever better than simply expecting the user to click the play button?
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Re:Firefox 64 Released by daleharvey on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:26PM (#18659570)
We thought it could let users enable it for sites where they wanted it as a feature (netflix, youtube, games etc)

Turned out to be wrong, thats why we will be shipping blocked by default

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Re:Firefox 64 Released by Misdicorl on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @05:37PM (#18659653)
Ah, didn't realize the prompt would save per site and not re-prompt. I can see how that might be useful for some people.

btw: Love Firefox, thanks for working on it =).

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Re:Firefox 64 Released by singularity2001 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @04:42AM (#18662577)
how to get pref function in console?
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Re:Firefox 64 Released by jdeibele on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:22PM (#18659026)
2 is ask. That's what I have mine set on.
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