Thanks TyDraniu! Polish tech people are good :)
<p>Thanks TyDraniu! Polish tech people are good :) </p>
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<p>Thanks TyDraniu! Polish tech people are good :) </p>
<p>You can look at these prefs on the <b>about:config</b> page to see what settings work for you to block autoplay. </p> <ul><li>media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;5:blockAll] </li><li>media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2 </li><li>media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false </li><li>media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true…
<em><p>luvec <a href="#answer-1537027" rel="nofollow">said</a></p></em> <blockquote>I'm talking about the moving images on the CNN home page </blockquote> <p>It's video. You have to block autoplay in Permissions. By default or only for CNN. </p><p>See <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay" rel="nofollow">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay</a> </p>
<p>I'm talking about the moving images on the CNN home page </p>
<p>Preference did not get set back to normal upon exiting FF; still showing as NONE. And if they are indeed MP files played with the HTML5 media player, how do I turn those off? </p>
<p>Note that on some webpages animated GIF images are actually small MP files played with the HTML5 media player. It is also possible to play a sequence of images via JavaScript. </p>
<p>(Pasting reply from <a href="https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1390888" rel="nofollow">the other thread</a>) </p> <em><p>luvec said</p></em> <blockquote>I appreciate the quick reply from your support staff yesterday. I followed instructions and was able to turn off the GIFs but FOR ONLY ONE TIME. As soon as I exited Firefox, or even the current page and returned to it they were back on. How…
<p>Steps are given below- </p><p>Type "about:config" in the address bar. Click "I accept the risk!" when it comes up. Find "image.animation" using the search box (just type "anim") Double-click "image. animation_mode." In the next box, type ether "once," so the animated GIFs only get one chance to play, or "none" so they never can. </p><p>Regards, Rachel Gomez </p>