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Firefox Blocks Autoplaying Web Audio (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the cease-and-desist dept.

Mozilla's latest Nightly builds for Firefox now include an option to mute autoplaying audio. The feature was recently added to the Chrome browser, but Mozilla's update offers a few more options. According to Engadget, "You can turn the feature off entirely, force it to ask for permission, and make exceptions for specific sites." Keep in mind that these are nightly releases, so you will most likely run into some bugs. The "polished version" is likely weeks away.

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  1. Re:...yet.. by markdavis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >"No one cares because FireFox is dead. They killed the addon ecosystem for "major speed improvements" that could only top Chrome in 2 benchmarks."

    Don't feel the troll.....

    The ecosystem they "killed" actually bounced back quite quickly. I use a lot of strange addons, and nearly every one was available immediately or just a few months after the switchover.

    And Firefox is, by most measurements, just as fast, overall, as Chrome is NOW. And yet is more driven by the community, cares about privacy more, and is not a closed binary. Plus, I trust Mozilla a lot more than Google, who has their hands in everyone's business.

    I am far more annoyed by the "Chromification" of Firefox, but that is not new, and is still far less Chromey than Chrome.