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Edge need Limit Media Autoplay (ALL)
- You're welcome, yeah they still have to ship a lot of features from the previous Edge to the new one
You say half baked browser as if it's a problem.
it's an alpha software and it's supposed to be half baked.
that firefox you mentioned had 20 years for development, the new Edge had only a couple of months and it's already in the top 10.
I did not mean "half baked" in terms of early development but that they are only doing things in half measure. I usually go to 4 news site and all of them are popular so if the new Edge browser would stop none of these from auto playing media, why would I use this browser. Why stopping auto play media on some random non popular site be of any benefit to most people or cause me to change main browsers.
- in the latest canary version, do the autoplayed videos have sounds or they start off muted?
I am not sure about the "Canary" version as I am testing the Dev version. In the Dev version the page takes a few moments to fully load then it plays the media with sound.
I tried a CNN article that had video on it with both new Edge and Chrome and they all auto played the video. YouTube also autoplays the videos.
you can use extensions as a workaround, you can use ublock which is the best adblocker and has more filters than any other adblockers. it stops CNN videos from autoplaying for me and instead puts a play button on it (i can still click on that play button and play the video if i want to).
HTML5 videos is another story tho, but there are extensions for that as well. search for extensions using keywords like "block HTML5 video" , "disable autoplay extension".i hope they integrate this feature into the final version of the Edge browser but since i can't wait for that day i use extensions. luckily chrome/opera/microsoft web store extensions all work in the new Edge.
right now i'm using ublock from Microsoft store, using couple of other extensions from chrome web store, using a rare extension that's only available on opera extension store too but i had to load and install it as an unpacked extension, downloaded the zip file and extracted it into a folder.