On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:01:21 -0500, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: > Windows 7, SM 2.6.1 > In general I like tabs. I read news from Yahoo.com . This presents me with a > news article and usually a list of links to other articles that it recommends. > Some of these recommended articles contain video or audio. What I like to do > is click on some of these links requesting that the pages be loaded into new > tabs, then read the page that I'm on, and then go to the loaded linked pages. > However if one of these linked pages contains video/audio SM begins to play > it immediately in the background before I am ready to view that tab. > I.e. suppose I am viewing page X and select the links to a,b,c of which b has > a video then b begins playing in the background immediately, even before I > have > finished with X or even started a. This is most annoying. > How do I prevent b from beginning to be opened, start interpreting, until I > select the b tab in the tab display bar?
Well there's my Flashblock, but that does only Flash. There's another extension called Stop Autoplay but I don't know if it's still actively maintained. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
