Comment by tomswartz07 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by tomswartz07 | Hacker News Reader

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.

Here'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)

Thanks 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.

Note 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.

As 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.

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