On 8/29/2015 2:11 PM, Brian Mailman wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 8/22/2015 4:13 PM, Brian Mailman wrote: >>> I like to open CNN http://www.cnn.com first thing, read the headlines of >>> the stories I want to read later and right-click on them. "Open New >>> Tab" I pick. Then I read the stories I've selected. >>> >>> Problem is, CNN doesn't believe the readers know how to read and that >>> they want to watch videos. I don't. I want to read the stories. >>> >>> I wind up with a cacophony of videos, and I have to find them one by one >>> before I can find peace. >>> >>> Is there a way of shutting down the videos unless/until I want to see them? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> B/ >>> >> >> If the videos are Flash (which fewer and fewer are, these days), they >> can be blocked with the FlashBlock extension. If the videos are HTML5 >> media, they can be blocked with a preference variable. In either case, >> unblocking them is easy. >> >> If you are interested in details, reply here in this newsgroup. > > Certainly. > > I don't know the difference between HTML5 and Flash. > > It's not that I want to block them entirely... I just want to block the > videos until I want to see them. > > B/ > >
The FlashBlock extension sets up a box on the Web page where the Flash video would play. In the middle of the box is a circle with a lower-case Italic f. If you hover your cursor over the box, the f changes to a right-pointing triangle. Select the triangle to play the video. FlashBlock also has an option to treat HTML5 Media videos the same way as it treats Flash videos. It also has a pull-down context menu; right-click when you hover your cursor over the box. Among other actions, the menu allows you to delete the video's box; in this case, you must reload the Web page if you change you mind and want to view the video. Thus, FlashBlock blocks videos until you want to view them. -- David E. Ross The Crimea is Putin's Sudetenland. The Ukraine will be Putin's Czechoslovakia. See <http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_PutinUkraine.html>. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
