

You may need to restart Firefox before the changes become active.įirefox should not respond to hardware media keys anymore once you set the preference to FALSE.


yeah, I just realized that I'm on an older. 73 is no longer supported, switch to 68/78ESR or use the latest 79. Double-click on the preference name, or single-click on the "change" button to the right, to toggle the state of the preference. I'm running Firefox 73.0.1 on Arch Linux and setting '' to false does nothing, what can I do to fix this I've tried rebooting and re-installing but nothing, I can't find a way to disable media keys.TRUE is the default value it means that support is enabled.The preference determines whether hardware media keys are supported in Firefox, or not.Confirm that you will be careful by clicking the "accept the risk and continue" button if it is displayed.Load about:config in the Firefox address bar.The downside to this is that media keys won't work in Firefox anymore. The solution is identical to the one in Chrome: disable support for hardware media keys in the browser. Firefox users may be in the same position now as some applications may stop responding to media hardware keys once the browser is updated on the system. The only way to address this was to disable the controls in Chrome. Unity Media Keys Control Web Based Music Services With Your Media Keys Chrome. Some users noticed that media keys stopped working in certain applications installed on the system, for instance Spotify and iTunes, once Chrome was updated to the version supporting these new controls. Google introduced support for global media controls in Chrome 79 in December 2019 to provide Chrome users with multimedia key support. If you play a song on Spotify or a video on YouTube, you may use the keys to control the playback, even when the computer is locked. Users who have upgraded Firefox Stable to the latest version may use the keys to control media playback in Firefox. to mute the volume, stop playback, or skip to the next video or song.įirefox supports media controls in the new release to control audio and video playback with hardware control buttons on keyboards, headsets and other peripherals. Firefox users may be in the same position now as some applications may stop responding to media hardware keys once the browser is updated on the system.Some computer keyboards, headsets and other peripherals have media keys that users may activate to control media playback, e.g. The only way to address this was to disable the controls in Chrome. Some computer keyboards, headsets and other peripherals have media keys that users may activate to control media playback, e.g. One of the new features introduced support for hardware media keys to control media playback in Firefox using these keys. Mozilla released Firefox 81 Stable earlier this week, and it included a good number of improvements or new features.
