Debian Bug report logs - #1055188
please disable video autoplay by default

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Package: firefox-esr; Maintainer for firefox-esr is Maintainers of Mozilla-related packages <[email protected]>; Source for firefox-esr is src:firefox-esr (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Andres Salomon <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 20:45:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version firefox-esr/115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1

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From: Andres Salomon <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: please disable video autoplay by default
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:42:37 -0400
Package: firefox-esr
Version: 115.4.0esr-1~deb12u1
Severity: wishlist

Last night my laptop crashed (hung hard) multiple times. I noticed that 
it was running really hot, and that several tabs I had open on a site 
(tabs.ultimate-guitar.com) were autoplaying videos in the background. I 
went into Settings, set autoplay "Default for all websites" to "Block 
Audio and Video", and my laptop has been running noticeably cooler ever 
since.

Now obviously my laptops fans & cpu scaling should be able to handle 
playing multiple videos, so I haven't solved the root of the problem, 
but also autoplaying videos is vile. It would be great if firefox in 
debian could change this setting to disable autoplaying of videos by 
default.

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