Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?
On 2015-10-10, brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> 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-firefox
> Thanks,
>
> Brian.
>
>
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