Hello, On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, James Knott wrote:
On 08/25/2017 04:13 PM, David Haller wrote:
about:config ->
media.autoplay.enabled;false
BTW, you just voided my warranty! ;)
What warranty is there to be voided? ;) Haven't you read the fine print? You've read the license before installing Firefox, have you???? *almost shocked out of concern for James* [.oO( jeopardy theme )Oo.] [20min later] (IMO, the M$ EULA etc. are WORN (written once, read ...) documents). What an apt acronysm, too. And the english leaves leeway on how to interpret the "read", depending on the expansion of the N ;) Well, going into about:config is the first thing when touching firefox or thunderbird or their descendants -- except seamonkey. The latter has _A LOT_ more options readily and easily accessible in it's preferences. And also in a treeview, which too helps a lot. Unless you've been using it for ~20 years already and know it inside out ;) But the prefs are still very welcome, esp. when I've got to talk mom through some change at our mailsverer... Yep, I used to use Communicator back when ... The mail-part of seamonkey makes a decent MUA/MTA for my mom (can't really teach her to use mutt, can I, and kmail and most other GUI MUAs are just broken, kmail specifically so as it's always been, more or less. Yes, you could mail with it. But it was broken[1] and I follow it since KDE 1.0). So, just for that, I should have seamonkey around to look stuff up. But really, I like it just so much more as _just a browser_ than Firefox, Vivaldi, Chromium and whatnot, just for usability reasons. Add prefbar and uMatrix, and a few more odds and ends for a power-user as me, and it's the best I've ever seen. And I guess I've seen almost all but recent IE and native MacOS/OS X. FF (and Chrome/Chromium are) is a PITA UI wise, and loads dead slow, even though I got about twice as much addons in my main "seamonkey" than in the FF I keep around for the weird cases and Addons. $ wc -l ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/*/prefs.js | cut -d' ' -f1 1415 $ wc -l ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/prefs.js | cut -d' ' -f1 361 It's mostly because with that FF, I care little e.g. about all the ssl stuff, as I use it only for some few known-broken sites and specific stuff (and that FF is already stricter on crypto). In seamonkey I nailed down as much as can be for up-to-date crypto and for the really broken sites I've got a prefbar checkbox e.g. (dis)allowing RC4/MD5 hashes, which toggles "security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_128_md5") or for enforcing "Safe renegotiation" (or allowing the unsafe), which toggles "security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation". BTW: prefbar works just fine with FF and a checkbox for toggling "media.autoplay.enabled" is a piece of cake. For your importing convenience, save this snippet as e.g. [Media]AutoPlay.btn, and import it into prefbar. ==== AutoPlay.btn ==== { "prefbar:info": { "formatversion": 3 }, "prefbar:menu:enabled": { "items": [ "prefbar:button:autoplay" ] }, "prefbar:button:autoplay": { "type": "check", "label": "AutoPlay", "prefstring": "media.autoplay.enabled", "topref": "value", "frompref": "value" } } ==== And voila, checkbox for that "hidden deep in about:config" stuff is suddenly available as a checkbox. Neat, eh? And editing the button (e.g. shorten the label to "AP" or so), easy... So, if that setting breaks a site, just check the box, reload, and it should work. Don't forget to uncheck the box afterwards ;) BTW: No idea if you can combine settings. I guess you'd have to script that yourself. Oh, and FF 57 will bring on major breakage for no obvious reason, see current HUGE announcement on http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/ and then see http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/migration.html and maybe help ;) After a new install of a mozillen, I install - prefbar - NoScript/uBlock/uMatrix (lately just the latter, though I keep a "globally allow scripts" NoScript active for it's XSS etc. filtering, no idea if that actually works). So I filter XSS etc. via NoScript, but actual JS gets blocked/allowed via uMatrix. - Scriptish/Greasemonkey. I use some sites regularly, that have some stuff I can stand. E.g. the "keywords" sub-page at IMDB... I've a script that tweaks the layout a bit, basically much to like it was a few years ago ;) in that order. -dnh [1] at various times in various ways. I consider the akonadi stuff a fiasko, and that stuff before that too. -- ...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. -- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org