Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

[Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz>]

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-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.