I think one thing we all have learned is that after some system updates or application updates, something just stops working. This time, it was my Pandora station not playing after Firefox updates.
You see, I live inside this giant robot called Philip. And Philip is also my sweet smart home assistant. In the morning, Philip would turn on music throughout my home, and gradually increase volume from low to medium to wake us up with beautiful and relaxing and free music on Pandora.
Then, one day, Philip just stopped doing that.
When I finally had a chance to investigate, I found the problem:
Philip uses Firefox to play Pandora in the morning. In the past, when opening Pandora on Firefox, it would just automatically start playing. But now, when I go to Pandora website, I have to manually click the play button to start the music.
So why was it working and not stopped working? Because I updated Firefox. And with a new Firefox, it automatically blocks music or video from playing on all websites. What you have to do is to explicitly enable autoplay on each website as shown below.
To go to Firefox Preferences page, simply type about:preferences in the address bar and hit enter. Then just search for Autoplay.
Hope this is useful for someone else running into the same problem. Remember, whenever you update, something WILL break. So happy living in a technology world (or inside a giant robot)!
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— 习近彭 (@wakeupfrog01) March 14, 2021
I was wondering why the music stopped playing in the morning. Does this mean music will start to play again to wake us up?
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