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Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

firefox should provide easy means to block video streaming.

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jhanns
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I don't care where it comes from or what type of player it is. I don't want to be distracted by any website playing any video unless I provide explicit permission first.

firefox should provide this capability; until they do the browser has a deficiency

I don't care where it comes from or what type of player it is. I don't want to be distracted by any website playing any video unless I provide explicit permission first. firefox should provide this capability; until they do the browser has a deficiency

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Sajjad Bin Samad
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Well, try an extension, to be exact try uBlock Origin - https://goo.gl/iZ8K3g

FredMcD
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If uBlock does not help,

Go to the Mozilla Add-ons Web Page {web Link} (There’s a lot of good stuff here) and search for something that can block videos.

James
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With the Flash Player Plugin (Shockwave Flash is old name) either set it to Click to Activate or Never Activate in Add-ons Manager so any Flash videos or Ads you encounter do not autoplay.

Type about:config with a : in the Location (address) bar. There are a choice of two Preferences you can toggle for the HTML5 player that may help.

The media.autoplay.enabled Preference will keep the HTML5 media from auto-starting in any tabs.

Or instead you can try toggling the media.block-play-until-visible Preference to true.