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Block auto-play always (on page load) except for NEXT in playlist would be useful for me

Open m-7761 opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, since Firefox's built-in auto-play disable feature isn't granular enough to make an exception for playlists, it would be very useful if an add-on had this functionality: i.e., never start playing videos just because a page loads, but after playing a playlist page, keep playing the next, like for example listening to an album, which are often presented as playlists.

If it's not possible to distinguish between the first time a page loads in a playlist (since they seem to reload the whole page for some reason) then next best thing is just to always play when a page contains a playlist menu: i.e., auto-play playlists pages, and don't auto-play (on load) regular pages.

Perhaps there's two senses of "auto-play" that are confusing, since your add-on is using the meaning of playing another video after a first (which always seems bad to me if not a music album for example) versus annoyances when videos play when the page is loaded (which is never welcome) which is what Firefox refers to as "autoplay" in its Options and location bar.

m-7761 avatar Apr 05 '21 04:04 m-7761

(owner please delete this comment if inappropiate) @mick-p1982 Enhancer for Youtube has this feature with your required granularity :)

allanlaal avatar Apr 11 '21 09:04 allanlaal

@mick-p1982 Enhancer for Youtube has this feature with your required granularity :)

Thank you! I'm not sure I've ever noticed this one before :)

m-7761 avatar Apr 11 '21 11:04 m-7761