Re: Browser to keep social media from burning up mobile data

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-07-11 03:43, VanguardLH wrote:

<vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote:
 

A lot of apps don't like little-browser (lynx) because of javascript
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Is there any other browser that shuts off pictures and videos (ie does not
download them) to conserve mobile data?
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Way back, browsers let you shut off pictures

 
In web browsers, like Edge, Firefox, and others, there is an auto-play
setting.  You configure auto-play to disabled.  That way, just loading a
web page does not automatically start playing a video.  I hate web sites
that automatically start playing a video, and at 100% volume, to jar me
out of my chair.  With auto-play disabled, videos do NOT automatically
start when loading a web page.

 
With Firefox, videos start playing mute in many sites. There is a
setting for this, in "site configuration" where block video and audio
can be selected.

Firefox Desktop has an about:config setting to set the default volume
level for HTML5 <video> content.  Doesn't work for Javascripted video.
Alas, Mozilla stole away about:config in Fenix (Firefox Android).

If you configure Firefox to purge all locally cached data on its exit
(except password), and include Site data, you lose any site preferences
per site you saved.  You get the default setup, but if you use site
preferences to override at a site (to unblock) then you might not want
to include site data in the purge-on-exit action.