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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
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.
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.
Thanks for the workaround.
In the previous Edge in Advanced settings, you can Block Media Autoplay.
But is does have the warning "Some sites might not work as expected".
It works okay on most sites including CNN.