Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by blhack on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:40PM (#19079246)

What I've been looking for is just a way to limit bandwidth down to something very small for certain tabs/pages. So, for instance: Washington post/buzzfeed/huffingtonpost/vox/vice etc. all get limited down to like 25kbps. They can try and play video, or steam jpgs, or whatever else they want, but I'll never see it because I don't have the bandwidth.

If that caught on, hopefully it would also be the end of gigantic, unnecessary UI libraries.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by mokus on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:43PM (#19082873)

I’d love a way to enforce other resource limits as well - cpu, for example. And maybe also a “maximum rate of pixel change” to kneecap the inevitable end-runs around autoplay being disabled.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by blhack on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:59PM (#19082931)

Oh dang, maximum refresh rate would be a really cool plugin. I actually am sortof in love with that idea!

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by jacquesm on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:51AM (#19083260)

I'd peg that at '0' unless some override was clicked.

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Re:Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video a... by LorenPechtel on Monday February 04, 2019 @03:51PM (#19080503)

I'd take a slightly different approach: A site is allowed a maximum file size and a maximum number of bytes per page. Anything over that will simply fail to load.

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