{"id":2680,"date":"2016-01-21T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:24:52","slug":"how-to-enable-automatic-background-playback-in-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/2016\/01\/how-to-enable-automatic-background-playback-in-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"How to enable automatic background playback in Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something changed in chrome that when you right click and open a link in a new tab, the content doesn&#8217;t play automatically.  \u00a0This happens in youtube and other multimedia sites.<\/p>\n<p>to fix this \u00a0go to:<\/p>\n<p>chrome:\/\/flags\/#disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playback  \u00a0 (paste this to the URL bar,  \u00a0clicking on it won&#8217;t work)<\/p>\n<p>And enable this flag.<\/p>\n<p>You must restart chrome (completely,  \u00a0if you don&#8217;t know how, just restart your computer)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know if this worked for you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something changed in chrome that when you right click and open a link in a new tab, the content doesn&#8217;t play automatically. \u00a0This happens in youtube and other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[173,164,184,182,180,179,181,183,60],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-auto","tag-chrome","tag-media","tag-new-tab","tag-play","tag-playback","tag-right-click","tag-tab","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.extrafudge.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}