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Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate
Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.
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Op 12-08-2026 om 19:29 schreef Boris:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to
play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser
tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

A URL would have been nice, but having said that, uBlock Origin blocks
most of these annoyances, like for instance the popup videos on zdnet.
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Boris
<Boris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate >Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to >play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser >tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or video >appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

about:config... and promise to be A Good Boy.
Set this to false: <media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages>
Set this to true: <media.autoplay.block-event.enabled>
Set value to '1': <media.autoplay.blocking_policy>
Set value to '5': <media.autoplay.default>
With those last two, make sure you click the 'tick' mark after
altering each value.
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dillinger <dillinger@not.invalid> wrote in news:0aoukm-dnj.ln1@spock.lan:

Op 12-08-2026 om 19:29 schreef Boris:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is
to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do
this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

A URL would have been nice, but having said that, uBlock Origin blocks
most of these annoyances, like for instance the popup videos on zdnet.

Thanks for the reply. I would have provided a URL, but there were many,
didn't seem to matter what URL. At any rate, I do have uBlockOrigin
enabled, but it didn't stop the annoyance. I toggled uBlockOrigin on and
off many time, restarting Firefox each time, and now uBlockOrigin is doing
it's job.

(I did have uBlockOrigin disabled a while ago because it was blocking previously unblocked sites.)

I am going to look into Nobody's response.
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Nobody <jock@soccer.com> wrote in news:0udp7l9omc4v63n0ki2endtikbelmgl79v@ 4ax.com:

On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:29:58 -0000 (UTC), Boris
<Boris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for

Allstate

Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically

begins to

play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the

browser

tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or

video

appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

about:config... and promise to be A Good Boy.

Set this to false: <media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages>

Set this to true: <media.autoplay.block-event.enabled>

Set value to '1': <media.autoplay.blocking_policy>

Set value to '5': <media.autoplay.default>

With those last two, make sure you click the 'tick' mark after
altering each value.

I made the changes you provided, and I turned uBlock Origin off. It
worked.
Thanks.
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Boris wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

153.0.4 here but don't think settings have changed for a couple of years

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Within Tools > Settings > Permissions & Data > Autoplay
set the Default for all websites droplist
to either block audio or block both

What I then do is add an exception for youtube.com, to allow both
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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote in
news:ne3trkFq50U1@mid.individual.net:

Boris wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

153.0.4 here but don't think settings have changed for a couple of years

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is
to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do
this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Within Tools > Settings > Permissions & Data > Autoplay
set the Default for all websites droplist
to either block audio or block both

What I then do is add an exception for youtube.com, to allow both

My version of Firefox does not have Permissions and Data. But, if I type Permissions in the Settings search box, I'm presented with a list of
functions that can be enabled/disabled, such as microphone, location,
speaker, ... and autoplay. Autoplay shows that I had already blocked all autoplay audio and video for all websites, but it didn't behave.

Actually, I hadn't blocked this. I didn't even know such a setting
existed. It must have been default, or standard for "Updates disabled by
your organization" installs. By the way, I'm not with an organization,
but I made this setting because I got tired of constant useless updates.

Odd.
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Boris wrote:

Actually, I hadn't blocked this. I didn't even know such a setting
existed. It must have been default

If you made the settings changes from Jock within about:config, those
are another route to the same thing ... theoretically the tools/settings
route is easier, but so well buried it took me a few minutes to describe
them, even knowing they were there somewhere ...



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On Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:46:36 +0100, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
wrote:

Boris wrote:

Actually, I hadn't blocked this. I didn't even know such a setting
existed. It must have been default

If you made the settings changes from Jock within about:config, those
are another route to the same thing ... theoretically the tools/settings >route is easier, but so well buried it took me a few minutes to describe >them, even knowing they were there somewhere ...

To be truthful, I didn't know (or mebbe didn't remember) the Settings
route... and even with your instructions, I couldn't figure out
immediately what to 'do' in Autoplay. I was expecting a radio-button
choice and mebbe that was the method previously instead of the
pulldown.
Just now, testing in 153.0.4 by reverting those four to defaults did
indeed change the reading in Settings but to 'Block Audio'.
I've now re-set to my advice... which dates from vague recall of
several instances of users asking on this group and I followed the
shared hints with success.
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On 13/08/2026 3:29 am, Boris wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

Boris, do you normally play music or films on your Computer??

I don't .... so I have the Audio Playback Level ('Speakers' down in the
bottom right of my screen near the Clock) set to ZERO so the web-sites
can send me whatever sounds they want but I hear nothing .... until *I*
turn it up when I want to listen to something .... whether that
'something' be Music/Video I have on my Hard-drive or something on the
Net or whatever!!
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Daniel70
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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in news:115k3k3$1hdua$1@dont-email.me:

On 13/08/2026 3:29 am, Boris wrote:

Firefox v. 149.0.2

If relevant, I have "Updates disabled by your organization" enabled.

Lately, whenever I launch a webpage, and a video add appears(for
Allstate Auto Insurance, for instance), or a news story, audio
automatically begins to play. The only way I can turn the audio off is
to right-click on the browser tab and select Mute tab. I have to do
this everytime such an add or video appears.

Is there a way to permanently disable this annoyance?

Thanks.

Boris, do you normally play music or films on your Computer??

No, 99% of the time, I don't.

I don't .... so I have the Audio Playback Level ('Speakers' down in the bottom right of my screen near the Clock) set to ZERO so the web-sites
can send me whatever sounds they want but I hear nothing .... until *I*
turn it up when I want to listen to something .... whether that
'something' be Music/Video I have on my Hard-drive or something on the
Net or whatever!!

Good idea. Simple and effective.
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