Muted sound while listening to archive.org playlists in autoplay mode
If I follow the following link, it follows that I need to unmute the sound volume:
https://archive.org/details/race-against-socks?autoplay=1&playset=1
I am getting this whenever I select "play all" from any suggested playlist or search results. It does start autoplay but I need to unmute at the beginning of each track, which is partly defeating the purpose. Is it some security feature from abrowser that I could deactivate, or is it the default behavior on archive.org?
> Is it some security feature from abrowser that I could deactivate
Note to self: yes, it is. Just realized that audio was not allowed in the autoplay options in abrowser and felt a bit depressed because it had been there under my eyes all along, in the address bar. Video was allowed though, so the progression bar was still active, just no sound would out.
You may want to play around with the autoplay options in about:config. Here are the options I have today in Librewolf, should be similar for abrowser.
Maybe try changing media.autoplay.block-webaudio to false?
Thanks, but it's even worse than that: there is an icon to change it directly in the address bar, but I missed it until after I had started bothering the IA patron support team about it...
Setting media.autoplay.default to 5 will block audio and video, 1 will block audio only, 0 allow all. Default default setting is 1, which is why I could still see the progress bar. Note that you can change the settings for specific websites, which is what I did.
>"until after I had started bothering the IA patron support team about it..."
It's not as if they had anything better to do, like save the world from the tentacles of Bill "Cthulhu" Gates.
True. I feel so guilty now. In another blatant example of the ongoing and pervasive attack, after realizing that 'toolkit.telemetry.enabled' was set to true by default on abrowser, I found this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422689
"This, rather unstraighforwardly, does not mean Telemetry is enabled. This means that, if telemetry is enabled, we collect somewhat more information." Only a Chthulu tentacle puppeteer could have used such convoluted language.
>"This, rather unstraighforwardly, does not mean Telemetry is enabled. This means that, if telemetry is enabled, we collect somewhat more information."
But you can see their point. It would be completely impossible for them to name the option 'toolkit.telemetry.expanded' instead of 'toolkit.telemetry.enabled'. Their keyboard is missing the letter "x", obviously.
Clearly, their 'X' has been taken over by we-all-know-who. No wonder it now says "Firefoo" everywhere. I guess Abrowser could now be rebranded Firebar.
You know it's funny, with all the massive changes Mozilla has made over the years, Pale Moon probably has a lot more original Firefox code in it than Firefox. So Pale Moon is more Firefox than Firefox.
I have just sent a formal request to Mozilla asking for Firefox to be renamed Darkwarg. As a workaround to their keyboard problem.
It's kind of catchy. Could be some cool advertising campaigns:
"DARKWARG - The Privacy Respecting Browser. Powered by Google and Facebook."
The Internet Archive just informed me that they "dont offer support for boutique systems such as GNU/Linux." In order to clear any misunderstanding, I let them know that support for "Linux" also applies to GNU/Linux, and why.