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Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

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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.

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Video-UNfriendly browsers? brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2015-10-10 18:10 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-10 18:20 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 18:40 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 19:00 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 07:00 +0200
        Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 13:20 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-10 19:40 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-10 19:50 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-10-10 20:00 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-10 20:20 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-10-10 20:10 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-10 21:00 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-10 21:40 +0200
        Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-10 21:40 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2015-10-10 22:30 +0200
        Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-10 23:10 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2015-10-10 22:40 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-10 21:50 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-10 22:00 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-10 22:10 +0200
        Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-10-10 22:30 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2015-10-11 12:00 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-11 20:20 +0200
    Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2015-10-11 21:10 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Timothy Hobbs <timothy@hobbs.cz> - 2015-10-11 23:40 +0200
        Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 00:20 +0200
          Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 02:00 +0200
            Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-12 07:00 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-11 23:40 +0200
      Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2015-10-12 00:30 +0200
  Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers? Gener Badenas <gener.ong.badenas@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 04:50 +0200

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