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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.




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