FirefoxDriver Html5 video auto-play

[Manoj Joshi]

Hi 

  The video on my html5 website does not auto-play, when I launch through FirefoxDriver.

  However auto-play work, when I launch it using Firefox browser manually or through ChromeDriver.

  I tried to resolve it setting preference "media.autoplay.enabled" = true  in Firefox Profile. seems no luck.

  Please suggest if anyone have solution on this.

  

Thanks

Manoj

[Shawn McCarthy]

Can you show your code how you are creating your FirefoxDriver ?

[Manoj Joshi]

Hi Shawn,

Below code I am using to initialize the Firefox browser.

public void initDriver() {

FirefoxProfile fp = new FirefoxProfile();

                fp.setPreference("media.autoplay.enabled",true);

driver = new FirefoxDriver(fp);

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

driver.manage().window().maximize();

}

Thanks 

Manoj

[Shawn McCarthy]

Manoj,

I am not sure. I never had to test for something automatically playing. Maybe open Firefox with selenium (like below), and don't close the browser, open another firefox window manually and go to about:config in both and see if anything is different?