Click to play for Firefox

[Charyb-0]

How to enable Click to Play in Firefox:

This will not allow plugins like flash to run unless the user allows them to run. This also keeps those phantom videos from starting when you visit a site.
You are asked if you want to activate Adobe flash plugin and once you OK it, the video will play. This adds an extra click each time but I like the fact that these plugins will not play until they are allowed to. This may be a pain in the rear for some. Adobe flash is an example. There are other plugins that are affected by this.

Open Firefox and type "about:config" (without quotes) into the address bar.

Look for, "plugins.click_to_play" (without quotes) and set the value to true.

See attachment for results of this. This is after clicking on a youtube video.

[marc-d-l]

Doesn't NoScript in firefox do the same thing?

[Charyb-0]

Doesn't NoScript in firefox do the same thing?

I don't use NoScript. Does it also disable plugins?

Someone else will need to answer your question.

[DavidR]

I don't believe it does as they aren't scripts as such.

[marc-d-l]

If you check the box for flash in noscript,l vidio's will not play until you allow them. At least that's the way it works on mine.

[DavidR]

Yes, I see that now, but I wasn't sure if it was blocking the plug-in or flash in general.

But I do see another option in those Embeddings settings, forbid other plugins, I have other plugins but they don't appear to have been blocked.