Chrome’s Click to play feature can avoid “Chrome wakes me up in the middle of the night, with monsters.”
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21
A while ago I came across this very neat bug report:
It isn’t so much a bug report, but a big annoyance with many browsers and web-sites: they auto-start playing video or audio (or other “active” content) as soon as the page loads, even in a background window.
The Chrome’s Click to play feature can help avoid this: you can configure this to the individual site and plugin level to select which ones to auto-play or block.
It increases your security, speeds up browser load times at the cost of a click here and there to enable a sites active content (on some sites: a lot of clicks, but alas: they should redesign to be less dependent on active content).
–jeroen
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