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Re: Piggybacking: Firefdox is using up my Internet bandwidth, autostarts videos even though autoplay is off (was:Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:12:07AM -0500, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> I wanted to try piggybacking on this in hopes that Roberto (or someone else 
> reading this thread might be familiar with how to solve a somewhat similar 
> problem in Firefox.  (And sorry for the top posting, and, if nobody responds, 
> I'll (eventually) start a new thread.
> 
> I use Firefox 52.n on Wheezy.  I have the autoplay feature turned off, but 
> quite often (I'm not sure it is every time) when I go to a youtube page, the 
> video starts playing (even with autoplay turned off -- by that I mean the 
> little button / slider on the youtube page).
> 
> Does someone here know how to prevent this?
> 
Some settings to check (in about:config):

media.autoplay.enabled -> false
media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground -> true (probably not necessary
if you have the above setting)
media.default_volume -> 0.0 (or something suitably low so as to not be
obnoxious when you do start a video playing)

There are probably others, but those seem to do what I need (which
sounds similar to what you describe).

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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gnome-software is using up my internet data Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2018-11-15 13:20 +0100
  Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-11-15 15:00 +0100
    Piggybacking: Firefdox is using up my Internet bandwidth, autostarts videos even though autoplay is off (was:Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-11-15 16:20 +0100
      Re: Piggybacking: Firefdox is using up my Internet bandwidth,  autostarts videos even though autoplay is off (was:Re: gnome-software is  using up my internet data Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-11-15 16:30 +0100
        Re: Piggybacking: Firefdox is using up my Internet bandwidth, autostarts videos even though autoplay is off (was:Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-11-15 18:00 +0100
  Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-11-15 16:20 +0100
    Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 21:50 +0100
  Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 19:30 +0100
    Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-15 20:40 +0100
      Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-16 04:30 +0100
        Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-16 05:30 +0100
          Re: gnome-software is using up my internet data Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2018-11-18 04:30 +0100

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