On Sat, 2015-10-10 at 12:07 -0400, 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. Sounds like Mozilla have improved the support for stopping auto-playing video, but you need version 41 (in experimental): http://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/11/finally-mozilla-adds-working-html5-video-autoplay-blocking-to-firefox/ Another workaround would be to disable the video codes Iceweasel uses and manually download the videos you want to watch using something like youtube-dl. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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