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Off topic, but NYT seems to be breaking things again. I have media.autoplay.enable set to false, yet all the videos on this article still autoplay. Better yet, if I change from true to false and then reload the page and scroll down firefox crashes when I reach the first video. edit: ye old error.

console.error: [CustomizableUI] Custom widget with id loop-button does not return a valid node Segmentation fault

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Every time you scroll it starts the videos. Even if you stop them it restarts them. And there were a fuckload of them. Very irritating. Luckily you can mute the tab.

The videos on that page use JavaScript and scrolling to control when a video plays. The setting you are referring to probably controls autoplay options set from HTML. I doubt any kind of setting in Firefox would disable JavaScript controlling videos as that would break custom controls.

> I doubt any kind of setting in Firefox would disable JavaScript controlling videos as that would break custom controls.

True, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I usually prefer the default controls on HTML5 video players to whatever the site wants to cook up. Somewhat similar to scroll bars and form elements. Native, please.

You could probably achieve what you want with an extension.

In theory it might be possible to only allow javascript running due to a mouse or keyboard event to control videos.

also annoying was that the video would autoplay as you scrolled, even if you specifically paused it

It works for me. If it happens every time, I suggest filing a bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided

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