After restart Opera start to play videos in the tabs that are visible..

kHellstre

kHellstre

When I restart Opera (with multiple) browser windows open, Opera will start to play all the videos that are in the active tabs *.

It Should Not Do That. If I Have paused video before closing Opera, I don't want opera to start to play it for me. It doesn't matter If I had closed to browser. If I have paused a video, then keep it paused.

Also, if I select a tab with a video after restarting Opera, Opera starts to play the video in that tab. Even if I have earlier paused the video. Again. I want to keep my videos paused, if I don't hit play myself. Should be simple.

This all is hugely annoying as after restart I have to keep pausing the videos. Often I have multiple windows open, maybe a few tutorials running, so it is frustration to start hunting those that Opera decided to start to play. It can take a while, and then I also lose the place I was.

This amount of issues with Opera has been quite overwhelming. How it is possible that every basic feature is being destroyed update after update?
Sorry for my attitude, but the late development has been just a huge disaster. A bunch of useless toys are introduced while the basic functionality of the browser is collapsing. Why was this autoplay/not to play even changed? It didn't work like this earlier. Not a single good update for a year or so. Just more issues after each update, and nothing that matters gets fixed.

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @kHellstre

@khellstre What is the behavior in other Chromium based browsers? It's up to the sites to decide if a media will start playing when you load the page.

If you don't want that to happen, you can install an extension that blocks video autoplay.