On 30/07/18 20:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-07-30 04:16, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 29/07/18 22:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 07/29/2018 08:22 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 28/07/2018 à 18:51, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
http://dodin.org/piwigo/picture.php?/142551-003_flames/category/7520 Plays fine here. FF 60.1.0esr on Leap 42.3
odd (for me :-(). Most probably some plugin (?) update as it is the same with new account and firefox nightly (and chromium) On my 15.0 it loads and plays automatically. I hate that. I also hate video loading before I hit "play", because sometimes I'm on a metered Internet connection. Even more hateful when it happens on a mobile phone. You may recall that I raised this issue in opensuse-offtopic last month (June) (one of my posts is dated 21 June).
The way I was advised to stop the video auto playing was to edit this entry in about_config-
media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground
and change it to read "false" (it originally reads as 'true'). I did this and the videos no longer play auomatically. The way I read it, "false" means do not block, ie, play immediately.
However, the other part of my angst about this "new way of how to annoy readers" was that the videos would 'slide' their way into the bottom R-H of the screen -- and there was no way to get rid of the darn thing except to "Close" it; and I couldn't find any Add-on which would stop the videos 'sliding' into the bottm R-H of screen. Right.
Several pages play that dirty trick. It is horrible on my smartphone because the pig occupies an awful part of the tiny display.
Sometimes it is an add that pops up a video (that fortunately does not play) but its black window floats at the bottom impeding me reading the page.
Well, there IS a solution for this nuisance invented by some nerd developer: Firefox v 61.0.1. I don't know what was changed in FF v61.0.1 but those videos no longer find their way into the bottom R-H of screen! Oh :-)
FF 61.0.1 is installed in (latest) Tumbleweed but not available for Leap 15 so I had to download it and install it manually in Leap 15. (It would be very nice if FF 61.0.1 was to become available for Leap 15.) I think there is an extra repo, testing or something. :-?
I will include here a response to what Patrick wrote in the msg following the one I am now responding to. To begin, I have to take back what I wrote re the solution to the videos 'sliding' to the bottom R-H of screen: installing Firefox 61.0.1 does NOT solve the annoyance :-(. My "Eureka!" was based on the result I am getting on my laptop where I have both Leap 15 and Tumbleweed installed and where I do all my testing before I apply whtever-changes to my Desktop. However, when I did same on the Desktop and checked FF's behaviour in (latest) Tumbleweed the video PITA still occurs :-(. So there is something existing on the laptop which stops the video annoyance but which is not present on the Desktop. Just off the top of my head, it is possible that it may have something to do with the nVidia driver (currently 390.77 for the FX1060 gpu I have) which is installed on Desktop but the laptop has a nvidia optimus gizmos and uses different driver. @Patrick. The item 'media.autoplay.enabled' is not a new one: it is also present in FF 60.1.0esr in Leap 15.0 and so it doesn't change anything re the video annoyance. So, Carlos et al, it's back to the drawing board re the video sliding to the bottom of the screen but at least it now no longer auto-plays. And, BTW, I did try running Firefox as a new user (firefox -P) -- no difference. BC -- There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. W C Fields -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org