{"id":269523,"date":"2018-07-25T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=269523"},"modified":"2018-07-25T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:01:04","slug":"firefox-tests-muting-autoplaying-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/269523-firefox-tests-muting-autoplaying-audio.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox tests muting autoplaying audio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/63.0a1\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nightly build<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for Firefox includes an option to automatically mute audio which plays when a web page is opened.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox&#8217;s Nightly browser is updated frequently and allows users to test a variety of features which may not make it into the stable browser client.<\/p>\n<p>The Nightly releases can be unstable and feature a number of bugs, in addition to work-in-progress features destined for the main Firefox browser.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox Nightly&#8217;s automatic audio muting can be toggled on or off, and users can make exceptions for certain sites or force websites to ask for permission before autoplaying audio.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a while before this feature potentially rolls out to the stable Firefox browser, as it will need to launch on the Firefox beta and developer builds first and be tested further.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are adding the ability to block and configure autoplaying videos with sound in Firefox, can check it out in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FirefoxNightly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FirefoxNightly<\/a> today (comments welcome) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k9K9hQC9Ye\">pic.twitter.com\/k9K9hQC9Ye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; @dale@toot.cafe (@daleharvey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daleharvey\/status\/1020619223863873539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/266053-have-i-been-pwned-built-into-firefox-and-1password.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Have I Been Pwned built into Firefox and 1Password<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla&#8217;s latest Nightly build for Firefox includes an option to automatically mute audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52673,981,975,52671],"class_list":["post-269523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-autoplaying-audio","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-nightly-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269533,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269523\/revisions\/269533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}