Disable Autoplay AND Buffering of HTML5 Videos
I'm aware autoplay can be disabled via changing the media.autoplay.enabled setting within about:config however I'm hoping to find a way to prevent HTML5 videos from buffering unless I ask Firefox to play the video. I'm on a slow and limited bandwidth plan and want to stop websites playing video content.
There are a few addons out there, but all the ones I found are not compatible with my version of Firefox and it'd be nice if Firefox could natively support it.
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example site of the problem so others can find a solution?
WestEnd said
example site of the problem so others can find a solution?
Any video that uses HTML5. Example? Any Youtube video. You'll notice when you open up a youtube video, it will begin buffering and autoplays the video.
The setting: media.autoplay.enabled will prevent videos from automatically playing, but the video still buffers. This means internet bandwidth is being consumed to load the video's content.
I ideally want to prevent any video, like Youtube, from loading until I actually ask it to play.
There isn't a built-in feature for this. Add-ons can block various kinds of content from loading in the first place, which probably is the most logical approach, but I don't know of a good one targeted to this specific issue.
The trouble is I couldn't find any addins which work with current versions of Firefox. Is there a "suggestions" page so I could ask for the feature to be implemented?
Edit: I imagine such a feature could prevent video ads from loading and playing on pages. This could provide some big speed improvements to other users. This feature would be great!
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