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Re: Video-UNfriendly browsers?

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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.


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Sven Arvidsson
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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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