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Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

From Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?
Date 2015-10-10 21:00 +0200
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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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