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How can you turn off floating or "sticky" videos on some sites?

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fluffychick75
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Hiya I am noticing a lot of sites have videos which when you scroll away from the video (i.e. you dont want to watch it) it appears smaller somewhere on the screen and continues playing. My internet connection isnt great and this is slowing down my pages - I have turned off auto play in Firefox and Facebook but its still happening. Thanks

Hiya I am noticing a lot of sites have videos which when you scroll away from the video (i.e. you dont want to watch it) it appears smaller somewhere on the screen and continues playing. My internet connection isnt great and this is slowing down my pages - I have turned off auto play in Firefox and Facebook but its still happening. Thanks

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FredMcD
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The 'floating' players are from the websites.

There should be a close button somewhere.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/ Flash block Never be annoyed by a Flash animation again! Blocks Flash so it won't get in your way, but if you want to see it, just click on it

or

You can set this pref; media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground = true

Type about:config<enter> in the address bar. If a warning screen comes up, press the Be Careful button. At the top of the screen is a search bar.