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    • DavyP
      DavyP last edited by

      With most of the other chromium based browsers that have installed on my desktop computer there is a block option already present in the settings area. I would have thought that due to the fact that opera is pretty customizable there would have been such a setting within the opera browser as well. Just for reference, I'm currently the latest beta version of the browser 95.0.4635.10
      Thanks,
      David

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      • burnout426
        burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

        Plain Chromium, Chrome, and Opera don't have a setting for it. They just rely on Chromium's autoplay policy rules.

        Brave and Vivaldi have a setting for it at the URL chrome://settings/content/autoplay. For Edge, it's at the URL edge://settings/content/mediaAutoplay. Since Chromium doesn't have it by default, they include a built-in, component extension (that's hidden) to provide it.

        In Chrome, plain Chromium, and Opera, you can use one of these extensions.

        If plain Chromium gets the feature, Opera will automatically get it. See the Suggestions and Feature Requests forum where users have asked for Opera to add support themselves.

        Chromium might still support a command-line autoplay switch, but I didn't test. See https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/#developer-switches for more info. If it still works, modifying Opera's shortcut to launcher.exe to include the switch with the right options might disable autoplay for you.

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        • DavyP
          DavyP @burnout426 last edited by

          @burnout426
          Thanks for your response, at this particular point in time I still don't think there's a 'perfect' chromium based browser. As far as my auto play question, I'm currently using this extension: https://github.com/Eloston/disable-html5-autoplay/
          David

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          • c0nd3mn3d
            c0nd3mn3d last edited by

            It confuses me that everyone is talking about disabling auto-play when that would naturally follow if we we're given the much more desirable capability to disable auto-loading of videos!!!

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