Auto-muting pages is very useful indeed. I find lots of news sites nowadays have a video at the top of the article. It's very rare that I want to watch the video vs. read the article.
Auto-muting pages is very useful indeed. I find lots of news sites nowadays have a video at the top of the article. It's very rare that I want to watch the video vs. read the article.
The thing I hate most about this is that often the video isn't even about the same thing as the article. If they don't have a video for that specific story, they just add one about a vaguely...
The thing I hate most about this is that often the video isn't even about the same thing as the article. If they don't have a video for that specific story, they just add one about a vaguely related topic.
Even sports sites do that. I go there looking for a summary of a particular game, and there's a Sports Center type news show that auto-plays, complete with un-muted audio. Why would I want that...
Even sports sites do that. I go there looking for a summary of a particular game, and there's a Sports Center type news show that auto-plays, complete with un-muted audio. Why would I want that when I click on a specific game? Often they aren't even discussing the sport I'm reading about.
Edit: you have to enable the blocker in Settings > Privacy & Security > Permissions, Check "Block websites from automatically playing sound." Then the option toggle will appear when you hit the circled i symbol in the address bar. I don't see an option to block all autoplay video though, and I'm on the latest FF, verified on the Mozilla site.
Edit 2: I guess they named it weirdly. Block websites from automatically playing sound prevents video from autoplaying. They might want to clean up the wording there. If you want a link to try it out, this page loads a video only tangentially related to the subject of the article, and has autoplaying video and audio. FF now blocks it and just shows a play button. I feel like I've waited a long time for this feature.
uBlock Origin has an option to block all media elements (images, videos, music, etc) greater than a certain size (default is 4096KB, but is adjustable) which makes browsing much faster/tolerable....
uBlock Origin has an option to block all media elements (images, videos, music, etc) greater than a certain size (default is 4096KB, but is adjustable) which makes browsing much faster/tolerable. This option has no impact on privacy because your browser will still make a request to find out the file size of the media element.
The main problem is that this blocks very large images (usually in the background), but it's simple to click/tap on the blocked element to re-enable it temporarily or to turn off the media block on a per-domain basis in the extension popup.
Uh-oh.. I used to check those in to a git repo that I used for my firefox profile. Looks like I will have to rely on backups instead from now on.
Improved experience for extension users – Previously, extensions stored their settings in individual files (commonly referred to as a JSON file) which took some time to load a page. We made changes so that the extensions now store their settings in a Firefox database. This makes it faster to get you to the sites you want to visit.
Uh-oh.. I used to check those in to a git repo that I used for my firefox profile. Looks like I will have to rely on backups instead from now on.
Don't quote me on this, but I think they use sqlite for databases in Firefox. Those are flatfile, so assuming the db names don't change between installs, you may be able to just start checking...
Don't quote me on this, but I think they use sqlite for databases in Firefox. Those are flatfile, so assuming the db names don't change between installs, you may be able to just start checking those in instead of .json files.
Git can store binary files too, it's just a lot less efficient if it can't figure out a diff (and you won't be able to view a meaningful diff between versions or anything).
Git can store binary files too, it's just a lot less efficient if it can't figure out a diff (and you won't be able to view a meaningful diff between versions or anything).
I'm not sure, I don't really have any experience tinkering with Firefox's DBs. I just remember hearing that and I did a quick google search to confirm it yesterday. Do let me know though if you...
I'm not sure, I don't really have any experience tinkering with Firefox's DBs. I just remember hearing that and I did a quick google search to confirm it yesterday. Do let me know though if you find out. I'm curious.
edit- Ah I see why binary files are a no-go for you, per your replies elsewhere.
Auto-muting pages is very useful indeed. I find lots of news sites nowadays have a video at the top of the article. It's very rare that I want to watch the video vs. read the article.
The thing I hate most about this is that often the video isn't even about the same thing as the article. If they don't have a video for that specific story, they just add one about a vaguely related topic.
Even sports sites do that. I go there looking for a summary of a particular game, and there's a Sports Center type news show that auto-plays, complete with un-muted audio. Why would I want that when I click on a specific game? Often they aren't even discussing the sport I'm reading about.
Edit: you have to enable the blocker in Settings > Privacy & Security > Permissions, Check "Block websites from automatically playing sound." Then the option toggle will appear when you hit the circled
isymbol in the address bar. I don't see an option to block all autoplay video though, and I'm on the latest FF, verified on the Mozilla site.Edit 2: I guess they named it weirdly. Block websites from automatically playing sound prevents video from autoplaying. They might want to clean up the wording there. If you want a link to try it out, this page loads a video only tangentially related to the subject of the article, and has autoplaying video and audio. FF now blocks it and just shows a play button. I feel like I've waited a long time for this feature.
Yup. There's also the incredibly common practice where the "article" is merely a transcription of the video.
uBlock Origin has an option to block all media elements (images, videos, music, etc) greater than a certain size (default is 4096KB, but is adjustable) which makes browsing much faster/tolerable. This option has no impact on privacy because your browser will still make a request to find out the file size of the media element.
The main problem is that this blocks very large images (usually in the background), but it's simple to click/tap on the blocked element to re-enable it temporarily or to turn off the media block on a per-domain basis in the extension popup.
Uh-oh.. I used to check those in to a git repo that I used for my firefox profile. Looks like I will have to rely on backups instead from now on.
Don't quote me on this, but I think they use sqlite for databases in Firefox. Those are flatfile, so assuming the db names don't change between installs, you may be able to just start checking those in instead of .json files.
Yes they use it, but I thought that was a binary format, aren't they? I will check tomorrow but I doubt it.
Git can store binary files too, it's just a lot less efficient if it can't figure out a diff (and you won't be able to view a meaningful diff between versions or anything).
Yeah, that is why I don't think it is useful anymore.
I should be fixing my rsync backup setup...
I'm not sure, I don't really have any experience tinkering with Firefox's DBs. I just remember hearing that and I did a quick google search to confirm it yesterday. Do let me know though if you find out. I'm curious.
edit- Ah I see why binary files are a no-go for you, per your replies elsewhere.