Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?
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-firefox
What 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 I
click its pause button.
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