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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 805334)

Well it is Bill Evans. I only steal from the very best dead addicts.
But now, to not have sound via a link:
http://manhattan1steakhouse.com/?sound=off
Ah, there's always a simple way. And now i can use this one in the portfolio.

@UT (or anyone else that might know)...

Is there a way to turn OFF the auto-start as a "permanent" setting ?

It seems that auto-start advertising is taking over every website,
and it is truly annoying, especially on long news (text) articles
where the offending ad is located down-screen somewhere among 17 ads.

Here's a page that explains the process for each browser.

But it's not fool-proof, you have to block all of a certain kind of content, etc. etc.

For me, the answer was to assign a button on my mouse to be the Mute button. Many keyboards and mice have extra buttons that you can program to do things. Having a quick Mute button is really nice.

If you have a Logitech mouse, their mouse software makes it easy; you just pick which button you want to assign or re-assign, and you get a ton of different choices for what a mouse button can do.

(And I have the Performance MX which means I have like 10 different mouse buttons...)

(For those with a Logitech mouse, run the Mouse settings, select "Other" as a button task and you get 40 different choices, including copy/paste, undo/redo, play/pause, etc and one of the choices is MUTE. For those without a Logitech mouse, ask your local computer person for assistance in buying a new Logitech mouse on Amazon and installing it, along with their Setpoint mouse software. It's worth it)

Oh yes and that steakhouse restaurant owner was a major asshole so I didn't mourn it when he asked to move the domain. Looks like the redirect died oh well

I've become very annoyed by the videos that autoplay in my list of Yahoo news headlines. They're not ads, they're 'news' videos. Oh, sure you can hit pause in the tiny little video window, but, that's just more annoyance.

And it slows down my 'puter.

They are forgetting the very simple lessons learned during the infancy of the web, which is that you don't want pages to load slowly.

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 926650)

Thanks UT... I'm on Mac desktop 95% of the time.
Your comment made me realize the F-10 key toggles "mute".
This is enough until I find a way to actually kill "auto-start".