Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?
On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, 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.
I've got Chrome set in Preferences to "Ask" before running ANY plugin.
You can whitelist certain sites to run particularl plugins. Think
Firefox/Iceweasel have a similar setting. GIFs still run though. They
don't require a plugin.
Maybe, NoScript will handle anything else. Or turning off Javascript.
Running Wheezy 64-bit.
B
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