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Question on Video

Unread post by tman801 » 2018-11-14, 17:45

Not sure how I should have worded this or if it is a browser or OS problem. Using Pale Moon 28.2.0 on Ubuntu 18.04. Whenever I am reading a link and I scroll over an embedded video( that I don,t want to watch) it automatically starts running in the lower right hand corner of the screen. I then have to x out in order to keep reading text. Is there a way to stop this?

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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-11-14, 17:47

That is neither a browser nor an OS problem, but is how the website was (annoyingly) designed. There's likely no direct way to stop it short of using an adblocker of some kind.
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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by tman801 » 2018-11-14, 18:17

Isengrim wrote:That is neither a browser nor an OS problem, but is how the website was (annoyingly) designed. There's likely no direct way to stop it short of using an adblocker of some kind.
Thank you Isengrim. I kinda thought that was the way it was. I agree it is annoying and wonder what adblocker I could use. I am using adblock latitude now.

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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by tman801 » 2018-11-14, 19:14

I think I found an answer to my problem.

I opened "about:config" then went to "media.autoplay.enabled" and changed true to false.
So far I haven't had any popup videos in lower right corner.
Will wait and see what happens.

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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by Nigaikaze » 2018-11-15, 04:40

tman801 wrote:I opened "about:config" then went to "media.autoplay.enabled" and changed true to false.
To stop ALL such videos from autoplaying, I also had to change the following preferences:

Set media.autoplay.allowscripted to false
Set media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground to true
Set media.block-play-until-visible to true
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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by tman801 » 2018-11-15, 17:01

The only one of those three I had was " media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground to true". I changed it to true and will see if that stops the autoplay.

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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by Isengrim » 2018-11-15, 17:12

Can you link to the site in question?
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Re: Question on Video

Unread post by tman801 » 2018-11-15, 20:13

Isengrim wrote:Can you link to the site in question?
Mostly it is newspaper sites and some forums. This site (dailymail.co.uk/) now gives me a blank video screen in lower right corner. Video does not play, but still must x out. Don't know why I don't have these other two in about:config.

media.autoplay.allowscripted to false

media.block-play-until-visible to true

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