Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?
On 2015-10-10, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Seems there is a boolean option for Firefox versions 8 and above that
>> can be toggled (about:config in the address bar)
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>> plugins.click_to_play
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>> which may satisfy your needs.
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>> https://security.berkeley.edu/faq/web-browsing/how-do-i-enable-click-play-mozilla-firefox
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> 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.
You can set the media.autoplay.enabled preference to false, though that
won't stop all HTML5 video from playing, apparently. A bug was filed
concerning this issue https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285,
but it has yet to be completely resolved (it seems).
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