Closed Bug 1487844 Opened 7 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Flip block autoplay prefs to turn the feature on

Categories

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, enhancement, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
Audio/Video: Playback
Type:
enhancement

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()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla66
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox66 + fixed

People

(Reporter: drno, Assigned: alwu)

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Details

(Keywords: dev-doc-complete, site-compat)

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Bug 1487844 - turn on the blocking-autoplay by default for all branches.
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These are the prefs we used in 63 Nightly to turn the block autoplay feature on for testing purposes: // Switch block autoplay logic to v2, and enable UI. pref("media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed", true); // Allow asking for permission to autoplay to appear in UI. pref("media.autoplay.ask-permission", true); // Set Firefox to block autoplay, asking for permission by default. pref("media.autoplay.default", 2); // 0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt
Priority: -- → P2
The current plan is to leave this feature off during the 63 release cycle and turn it on at earliest during the 64 release cycle.
Assignee: nobody → alwu

Our current plan is that blocking autoplay will be turned on by default in Fx66.

Pushed by alwu@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/349af469066d turn on the blocking-autoplay by default for all branches. r=cpearce

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/349af469066d

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
status-firefox66: --- → fixed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla66

If this is going to be a temporary enabling for early beta, can you also file a bug to disable this again before 66 release? Thanks.

This will probably affect browser compat data

Keywords: dev-doc-needed
Blocks: 1528534

Posted site compatibility note: https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2019/audible-media-s-autoplay-is-now-blocked-by-default/ (will update when/if it’s disabled)

Keywords: site-compat

I am a bit confused here, but AIUI, this has been turned off again, so autoplay will not be blocked in 66 at release? therefore I don't need to add a note about this to the 66 rel notes? If so, how do we know when it will actually me available?

Or have I got this wrong?

Let me know. Thanks!

Flags: needinfo?(alwu)

The pref will be turn on by Normandy, that is a service which is used to control how many user whom we should enable the feature for. We will enable this feature step by step for all users in 66.

However, I have no idea how Normandy works. I assume that there are some people in release engineer team will help us to operate that.

Flags: needinfo?(alwu)

(In reply to Alastor Wu [:alwu] from comment #10)

The pref will be turn on by Normandy, that is a service which is used to control how many user whom we should enable the feature for. We will enable this feature step by step for all users in 66.

However, I have no idea how Normandy works. I assume that there are some people in release engineer team will help us to operate that.

Thanks Alastor; I have added a note at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/66#APIs which I hope covers it ;-) We can edit if needs be.

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