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If you don't have Click-to-play enabled for Firefox, you should, and here's how you do it: Open Firefox and navigate to about:config. You will be sarcasticall
by tomswartz07 11y ago
If you don't have Click-to-play enabled for Firefox, you should, and here's how you do it:
Open Firefox and navigate to about:config.
You will be sarcastically warned that you about to void your warranty, just click on the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to move on.
Now search for:
plugins.click_to_play
Next you need to right-click and toggle the setting so that the value is true.
Once you are done restart Firefox.
To test it out, head over to a site with Flash (BBC, ironically, has Flash), you will notice you will have to click on the plugin to activate it.
That’s all there is to it.
I'm sure there's a similar method for Chrome, but I don't have it installed to test.
- Someone1234 11y agoHere's the Chrome guide: - Open Settings - Show Advanced Settings (bottom) - Content Settings (under Privacy) - Plugins -> "Let me choose when to run content." - It will now be click-to-play and enable a icon like the pop-up blocker in the address back to enable all on a page or to whitelist the page. - You can also whitelist from the settings page by clicking Manage Exceptions, and adding them like this: [*.]youtube.com (all sub-domains, and protocols on youtube.com)
- hrbrtglm 11y agoThanks a lot, I did not know chrome had this setting option, or I view it but did not really realize what it was for. I'm glad you took some time to list the needed steps.
- Mahn 11y agoNote that if you do this, you don't really need to whitelist specifically youtube, since their player is html5 by default for some time now.
- abrowne 11y agoAs I posted elsewhere in this thread, with click to play your browser still reports to the website that you have Flash installed. Sites still often don't send non-Flash content unless they thinks you don't have it installed.