On 10/10/15 21:35, Timothy Hobbs wrote:
I have been playing with this after you posted that link, and it is really quite frustrating. It seems that there are several options in "about:config" which should allow me to either disable video completely or at least disable webm (search about:config for "media") however, none of them seem to have any effect on that video.Tim On 10/10/15 20:55, Felix Miata wrote:Curt composed on 2015-10-10 18:06 (UTC):brian wrote:My wife and I live out in the wilds of Maine, and the only internet service we can get is satellite, which means a maximum of 250 MB total up and down per day. That allowance gets drained away by these damned autoplay videos on various news sites. Pat is using Wheezy, I'm using Jessie - short of going back to Lynx, does anyone have any recommendations for a browser which can be configured NOT to autostart videos? I'm not talking just on YouTube or similar sites - there are a zillion extensions to do that for Firefox, but they don't work on other sites, e.g. the New York Times.Seems there is a boolean option for Firefox versions 8 and above that can be toggled (about:config in the address bar) plugins.click_to_play which may satisfy your needs.https://security.berkeley.edu/faq/web-browsing/how-do-i-enable-click-play-mozilla-firefoxWhat is there for HTML5 video, which isn't a plugin?http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cramer-why-im-rethinking-view-221140224.html plays on load, even though I have NoScript defaulting to JS disabled, until Iclick its pause button.