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Microsoft Says New Microsoft Edge Will Block Auto-Playing Media 

 

One of the features that Microsoft is working on for the new Microsoft Edge browser is a blocker aimed at auto-playing media, a company engineer confirmed.

Kyle Pflug, who is part of the Microsoft Edge team, confirmed on Twitter that the company is already developing a feature that would block media that begins playing automatically on page load.

The behavior will be available either as a global feature, which means all auto-playing media will be blocked, or as part of a per-site rule, giving users more control over the content they want to block.

“We’re working on adding a global and per-site setting similar to what we have in the current version of Edge,” he said on Twitter.

Blocking auto-playing media is a feature that’s already available not only in other browsers on the market, but also in the original version of Microsoft Edge too. This version of Edge is offered on Windows 10 as a native browser.Preview builds on Windows and MacWhile there’s no ETA as to when the feature could land in the Chromium-based browser, it shouldn’t take too long for this to happen, especially as the app receives updates daily in the Canary channel and weekly for the Dev build.

Right now, only preview versions of Microsoft Edge can be downloaded, with support currently offered on Windows 10 and macOS. Microsoft said it would also release Microsoft Edge preview builds aimed at older versions of Windows, as the transition to Chromium makes it possible for the app to also run on Windows 7 and 8.1.

No specifics are available regarding the release date of the stable Microsoft Edge browser, but Microsoft obviously has a lot of work to do, as several major features are still missing. If the development advances as planned, Edge could go live for Windows users later this year.

 

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