[olug] [OT] Firefox plugin

[Jason Troy]

Stop using/supporting annoying sites.
Or try this:

about:config > media.autoplay.enabled=false
Source:
http://www.howtogeek.com/227669/how-to-stop-auto-playing-html5-videos-in-your-web-browser/

-- JT

P.S. Why do most messages end up in spam lately?



On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Kevin D. Snodgrass <kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Anyone know of a plugin for Firefox that will stop ALL HTML5 video from
> auto-starting?  I've tried a couple, but they all require me to block
> individual videos, like video ads, from playing.
> Seems cnn.com and several other news websites think everyone wants to
> watch their video.  It can take over a minute for me to get the slider bar
> with the pause/play switch to show up, wasting my time.
> Found some settings to change in Firefox, but they don't work.  Maybe
> there is some secret sauce config file voodoo I haven't found yet... Kevin
> D. Snodgrass
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