On 1/18/12 8:17 PM, Philip Chee wrote: > 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 >
Almost all such video and audio are indeed Flash. I highly recommend Flashblock. It allows you to play the Flash when you are ready. You merely select the "play" icon. The "play" icon is a circled right-pointing triangle that appears when your cursor is over the Flash area. If your cursor is not over the Flash area, the area is indicated by a circled f. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
