Quote:Despite being offered to Windows and Mac users as a work-in-progress, the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser keeps evolving, and every little update that it receives brings new functionality to both platforms.
 
The most recent update is support for blocking automatically playing media, a feature that is already available in other browsers, but which is still being developed for the new Edge.
 
Auto-playing media has become more and more intrusive in the last couple of years, and it basically comes down to videos or sounds that begin playing on page load. This is something that a lot of websites use, and if you’re a frequent news reader, you probably noticed that there are a lot of portals out there that play videos when you load an article.
 
Fortunately, Microsoft is working on resolving this annoyance, and the company has recently confirmed that it was developing a blocker to prevent media from automatically playing.
 
The very first version of this blocker is now available for testers to try it out, and all they need is the latest version of Microsoft Edge Canary. I tested the steps detailed here on version 77.0.211.0, and the flag is already there, so you must be running at least this build.