On 2015-10-10, brian <br...@meadows.pair.com> 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 > Thanks, > > Brian. > > --