{"id":305,"date":"2019-04-04T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/latest-firefox-update-blocks-automatically-playing-audio-and-video-ads\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:44:45","slug":"latest-firefox-update-blocks-automatically-playing-audio-and-video-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/ro\/latest-firefox-update-blocks-automatically-playing-audio-and-video-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Firefox Update blocks automatically playing audio and video ADs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hippo-before-content\" id=\"hippo-1867476176\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8362125513622191\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8362125513622191\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7257236543\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><div class=\"separator\" data-amp-style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hippotechgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/firefoxlogo.png\" data-amp-imageanchor=\"1\" data-amp-style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"814\" data-original-width=\"1455\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj3liTlMhAYU0ixyWCh5EuhRQjPEUei1EvrcIaVX-1TFlp9klDqEUFXoCBHygR1P6y3lwkQcWpwN4y9sAMZQSX8i3o33aGbEfdrKPrDm0J45uwvAIJEODmY7e5Nrkb701rv9WCoI5RKgis3\/s640\/firefox+logo.PNG\" width=\"640\"><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">Some times you open your web browser, and then boom music or some annoying sound starts playing which can be irritating, keeping you wondering where it is coming from. In your search for this irritating sound or noise, you discover its an auto-playing ad from a website.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">Firefox now offers a better solution: All audio and video content can be blocked automatically in the latest version of the browser<\/span><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 36px;\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">If there are videos or audios you want to have played, you can click on the play buttons, or create an exceptions list for websites that you want to authorize for playing content.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">Chrome, meanwhile, doesn&#8217;t offer a native feature for blocking auto-playing videos on websites, but the browser does tell you which tab is making noise \u2013 search for the speaker icon at the top of the tab.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 24px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">Another new feature on the latest Firefox update is scroll anchoring, which makes it easier to read longer articles without content jumping around as ads reload at the top.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" data-amp-style=\"line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-family: &quot;helvetica neue&quot; , &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif;\"><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 37.3333px;\">The latest update for is available for download&nbsp;<\/span><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\"><span data-amp-style=\"color: red;\">\u21db\u21db<\/span><\/span><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/download\/thanks\/?utm_campaign=header-download-button&amp;utm_content=header-download-button&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=hacks.mozilla.org\" target=\"_blank\" data-amp-style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span data-amp-style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Firefox 66.0<\/span><\/a><span data-amp-style=\"color: red;\">&nbsp;\u21da\u21da<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some times you open your web browser, and then boom music or some annoying sound starts playing which can be irritating, keeping you wondering where it is coming from. 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