On Sat, 10 Oct 2015, brian wrote: > > My wife and I live out in the wilds of Maine, and the only internet > service we can get is satellite, which means a maximum of 250 MB total > up and down per day. That allowance gets drained away by these damned > autoplay videos on various news sites. Pat is using Wheezy, I'm using > Jessie - short of going back to Lynx, does anyone have any > recommendations for a browser which can be configured NOT to autostart > videos? I'm not talking just on YouTube or similar sites - there are a > zillion extensions to do that for Firefox, but they don't work on > other sites, e.g. the New York Times.
I've got Chrome set in Preferences to "Ask" before running ANY plugin. You can whitelist certain sites to run particularl plugins. Think Firefox/Iceweasel have a similar setting. GIFs still run though. They don't require a plugin. Maybe, NoScript will handle anything else. Or turning off Javascript. Running Wheezy 64-bit. B
