Whenever I go espn to check the final score to see about my props, squeaking sneakers and annoying announcers come blaring out of my speaker because of the inexplicable choice to have auto-playing videos, which no consumer actually likes. Also happens on CNN and Bloomberg, equally as annoying. After some searching, I finally found a fix here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1222694, you have scroll down to jscher2000 post. I pasted it below, figured other people might be suffering from the same issue:
The old preference is obsolete. Mozilla is planning to add a media autoplay permissions section to the Options/Preferences page once the settings have completed full testing and interface design. For now, you can use what's available in this "work in progress."
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste autop and pause while the list is filtered
To set your preferred behavior:
Block autoplay by default
=> Does that work for you?
Ask on a site-by-site basis (default for "Nightly")
Allow autoplay by default (default for Release)
If there is still a problem on Reuters, could you provide a link to the page that autoplays video?
The old preference is obsolete. Mozilla is planning to add a media autoplay permissions section to the Options/Preferences page once the settings have completed full testing and interface design. For now, you can use what's available in this "work in progress."
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste autop and pause while the list is filtered
To set your preferred behavior:
Block autoplay by default
- Double-click the media.autoplay.default preference and set it to 1
- Double-click the media.autoplay.allow-muted preference to switch the value from true to false
=> Does that work for you?
Ask on a site-by-site basis (default for "Nightly")
- Double-click the media.autoplay.default preference and set it to 2
- Double-click the media.autoplay.ask-permission preference to switch the value from false to true
- Double-click the media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed preference to switch the value from false to true
Allow autoplay by default (default for Release)
- Double-click the media.autoplay.default preference and set it to 0 (or right-click > Reset)
If there is still a problem on Reuters, could you provide a link to the page that autoplays video?