My homepage has a video background which has audio. But the audio will only automatically play using firefox. If I'm going to open my homepage in others like chrome or IE, the audio doesn't be heard.
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Can you give us a link / specific code to look at? – Derek Brown Oct 13 '17 at 00:26
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Many browsers, including Chrome, BLOCK and do not honor the autoplay functions. They require user action to be taken to play autoplay media, such as a click handler invoking it.
Here's some additional information HTML5 Audio: Chrome on Android doesn't automatically play song vs Chrome on PC does
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There are lots of ways around this (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35525968/autoplay-sound-in-chrome-background-tab) – Derek Brown Oct 13 '17 at 00:27