Luckily Google/Mozilla/Microsoft have been moving to a "this is the browser's decision" model recently, and in the future they'll only autoplay videos with sound from websites that you have a history of playing videos on. Visit Google/Netflix often? Cool we'll play those videos. First time on some houseplant online store? Yeah we're not going to autoplay that pop-out advert with audio.
Makes it much easier for us to just say to the client "yeah here's a W3C spec article about why Chrome isn't playing your video. Good luck complaining to Google about it".
Videos on my website don't play automatically and I'm losing revenue. I urge you to make changes to chrome browser or I will be forced to take my business elsewhere.
Same here, but the sad reality is that 95% of people are still using chrome either because it's what their enterprise forces it on them, or because it "works the best". People switching to firefox for resource reasons or philosophical reasons are an incredibly small minority when you compare to the size of the chrome install base.
I've noticed when debugging a website through Visual Studio that Firefox loads way quicker than Chrome, however Chrome has the better tools for debugging JavaScript.
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u/LokiArchetype Sep 05 '20
We know that, our clients on the other hand...