267141 - Stop animations/applets

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[GWeiland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Each day I'm browsing sites, wherof more and more contain flash-animations.
Thus I'm every day struggling for disabling them, since they drain my laptops
battery heavily.
I don't want disable flash completely, but only view the first frame / screen of
the flash-animation, which I have, when it's initially stopped, for to see, if
there's something, I shouldn't miss.
But flash-animations shoudn't start automatically and empty my battery for ads,
I don't like.

There's need for a preferences-switch for stopping flash by default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
There's need for a preferences-switch for stopping flash by default.

I don't want disable flash completely, but only view the first frame / screen of
the flash-animation, which I have, when it's initially stopped, for to see, if
there's something, I shouldn't miss.
Flash-animations shoudn't start automatically and empty my battery for ads, I
don't like.

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 267142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Seamonkey bug 11875

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** Bug 272015 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Kuren Charles]

Ideally, since the ESC key already stops animated GIF's, and embedded WAV and
MIDI's, it should also halt Flash animations. 

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 272634 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Justin Kerk]

*** Bug 332577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 8

[Jason Spiro]

What you are requesting is now available in an extension.  The Flashblock extension stops Flash applets from loading until you click on them.  Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 and try it.

To all those CC'ed:  Now what would you like?

1.  Would you like Flashblock-like functionality to be built into Firefox by default, so that you could enable it by setting a pref "Do not load Flash applets until I click on them" in the "Tools -> Options" or "Tools -> Plugins" window?  If so, tell us; if someone feels like it, they will implement it for you.

2.  Or are you happy now that you can download and enable Flashblock yourself?

Please email your response to me in a private mail.  Please try to use either the subject line "I want that Flashblock-like functionality should be integrated into Firefox" or "I want that the Flash bug is irrelevant now".  You can also send comments; I will paste them here once polling ends.  My email address is [e-mail] . After a while, I will summarize the results here.

Comment 9

[klonos]

So, should this be marked fixed or wontfix?

Anyways, AFAIK Flashblock replaces flash content with a placeholder and a '->' play sign, that once clicked loads/plays the animation. The initial description of this bug/request was to be able to see the first frame of the animation though and not block it entirely (perhaps feature request to Flashblock developer?).

Comment 10

[Jason Spiro]

(In reply to comment #9)
> So, should this be marked fixed or wontfix?

Neither.  Please leave this request open.

Nobody replied to my poll.  In fact, I forgot about the poll for months.  As I type this comment, I'm at a public library, and they don't have Flashblock installed.

So now I realize I still would like Esc to stop all Flash animations.

This request's Seamonkey equivalent is bug 11875.  That request's comments include some suggestions about how to implement the feature.