YouTube, Firefox and audio

[polyphenol]

I almost always use Firefox as I have done for many years. In the very recent past, something has changed! If I show the usual YouTube page with tiles for videos, the audio of the video cuts in the moment my mouse pointer passes over a video. Maybe a delay of a second?

It didn't used to do this!

I do have autoplay media with sound blocked.

It's not a big problem - I just have to be careful where my mouse pointer goes, and where it ends up when I switch to keyboard. Indeed, when actively looking through videos, it is quite effective. It's more of an observation than a whine!

However, I do wonder if YouTube is downloading more data in order for this to work?

Safari doesn't do this.

As usual for me, on fully up to date Firefox (with uBlock Origin) and Sonoma.

 

[Adora]

Im a using this extension for YouTube in Firefox and Safari. You can disable almost everything with it, what you don't like. I set it to don't autoplay anything everywhere. Because that Firefox setting sometimes doesn't work.

UnTrap for YouTube

untrap.app

But when I turn it off the previews have no sound at all. I can't reproduce what you mean.

 

[polyphenol]

Im a using this extension for YouTube in Firefox and Safari. You can disable almost everything with it, what you don't like. I set it to don't autoplay anything everywhere. Because that Firefox setting sometimes doesn't work.

UnTrap for YouTube

untrap.app

But when I turn it off the previews have no sound at all. I can't reproduce what you mean.

Thanks.

Oddly, I'm now on my Mac mini, and it isn't happening! But it is on my MBP.

On the mini, I'm seeing the tile video start (it is slower than my MBP - maybe a couple of seconds), but no audio. But maybe that is because I use an external Homepod mini (or a Bluetooth speaker) as default rather than the built-in speaker.

I generally try to live with things without adding loads of things because they can be so problematical when updates come out and across multiple machines.

AHA!!!! But I just noticed that the tiles have a speaker icon in top right. And on the mini that is disabled. I think I must have inadvertently enabled it on my MBP. Your reply just prompted me to look in the right place! Thank you.