Lately, whenever I start up Opera, every video in every front tab of previously open windows begins playing! This is a big, noisy, confusing mess, and most other browsers have figured out how to prevent that, is there some setting I've overlooked, to prevent this from happening?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/61458/why-do-videos-all-play-at-start-upRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 04:02:09 GMTThu, 06 Apr 2023 18:40:02 GMT60@leocg I'll have to pay attention when I open them, but I don't recall having this happen when I open any of them, Safari, Firefox, Brave, etc. But as I open them, I'll make note if it happens with another browser, and let you know...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/306572https://forums.opera.com/post/306572Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:58:28 GMT@stevenjcee Which ones? In most browsers the videos play automatically.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/306139https://forums.opera.com/post/306139Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:06:45 GMT@leocg Really? I need to find a separate app just so all videos won't play at start-up? I'd think Opera's developers should be able to do that, as other browsers have done...

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/306136https://forums.opera.com/post/306136Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:35:20 GMT@stevenjcee You probably need to use an extension to prevent media auto-play.

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