267142 - Playing of Flash-animations empties my laptops battery - missing default switch for stopping

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 267141

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

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)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267141 ***

Comment 2

[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