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This is the first I hear about Normandy[1]. Firefox has been my main browser for a long time, only because I could use uBlock origin. Now, all of a sudden that is disabled, and with the recent version they got rid of my ability to always prevent autoplaying of videos.

Apparently, there is no one associated with browsers can be trusted in the least.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout

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In the recent version we added the ability to always prevent autoplaying of videos, in the next version we will be adding further UI to let the user disable all (not just muted) videos from autoplaying - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543812

That does nothing to mitigate the wholesale disabling of already trusted plugins like uBlock.

Well, if you follow the OP, you'll realize that it's a bug and people are working to fix it :)

The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.

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