Twitch video can not be unmuted when media.autoplay.blocking_policy=2, media.autoplay.default=1
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Mozilla Firefox |
Confirmed
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Unknown
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With `media.
== Steps to reproduce ==
1. Open about:config
2. Search for autoplay in the settings
3. Set media.autoplay.
4. Set media.autoplay.
5. Open a Twitch VOD, for instance https:/
6. Try to unmute the video (either by clicking Twitch player's speaker control button, or by dragging the accompanying volume slider)
== What I expect to happen ==
For the audio to be unmuted.
== What happens instead ==
The audio remains muted, and the volume control/indicator remains in the muted position.
== Other info ==
This is present in Firefox 88. I tried to update the versions info below using apport-collect, but it failed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: firefox 75.0+build3-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
BuildID: 20200403170909
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 24 16:33:46 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (1289 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
BuildID: 20210415204500
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-30 (148 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox 88.0+build2-
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: focal wayland-session
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-50-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare ssh sudo vboxusers
_MarkForUpload: True
modified.
mtime.conffile.
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in firefox: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in firefox: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Created attachment 9141898
2020-04-21 02-37-35.mp4
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0
Steps to reproduce:
I was watching an twitch recording on firefox with autoplay set to block audio.
Actual results:
When video starts it is mute then when I try to unmute it, video pauses
Expected results:
When I try to unmute it video shouldn't stop and when I play the video again it shouldn't be mute