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Hi everybody,

I hope you can help me with this...

In several sites, when I open a video in a backgrund tab in firefox, it doesn't play automatically (but youtube does play auto), and I have to open the to load-buffer-start playing the video.

As I say, youtube automatically start the video...

Thanks a lot!

Please provide some examples of sites where this occurs.

Youporn XD

Gametrailers too... I let gametrailers.com, and mtvnservices (that hosts the video) and it dont play the video until i visualize the tab.

Check your settings in NoScript Options > Embeddings. There are easy ways and safer ways. I recommend the safer ways.

Easy, but most dangerous: Uncheck "Forbid Adobe Flash". This will allow flash videos *everywhere* on the planet. NOT recommended.

A little better: Leave everything checked, except uncheck "Apply these restrictions to whitelisted sites too." From your information, I'm guessing that's what you have now. Probably YouTube is in your Whitelist (NoScript Options > Whitelist - youtube.com and ytimg.com), so Flash is automatically allowed there. The other sites probably have not had all of their necessary scripts whitelisted to be qualified as a "trusted" or whitelisted site, so Flash is still blocked until you click and allow. If you choose to, just add all of the scripts at your desired sites to the whitelist.

Notice that at some of those sites, this means allowing a lot more scripting than necessary. For example, at youporn, just allowing youporn and js.youporn is enough to click any video, allow the Flash object, and it plays. But to whitelist the site, you would also have to add etology, yahooapis, and perhaps others. The less scripting allowed, the better.

Recommended: Keep the Embeddings tab 100% checked. It's only one extra click to play your chosen video. This way, you have allowed only that one video, and not every other Flash object on the site -- which might include advertisers or other third parties with possible privacy or security issues. I personally whitelist YouTube, but click only the one video.

I hope this helps you make your choice.

I don't believe that has anything to do with NoScript.
Just the way the site is designed.
If you disable NoScript, do you not get the same results?

Youtube does load & start in a background tab.
Youporn does not start the Flash till the tab has gained focus. Quite common from what I have seen.