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<blockquote data-quote="ashy7" data-source="post: 1095959" data-attributes="member: 168538"><p>Hi All,</p><p></p><p>I bought a 2.4Ghz MacBook pro last week. It is my first Mac, and I am slowly getting used to it. I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me out with (I have searched but found no answers!):</p><p></p><p>1) In Firefox on my old PC, and Safari on the current Mac, if I open a video in a new tab, the video would not auto-play, until I clicked on the tab. On Firefox on the Mac the video just auto plays. This is pretty annoying when I open 4 or 5 videos in different tabs and they all start playing. I want to click on the tab before it starts playing.</p><p></p><p>As safari on the Mac does not play the videos automatically, I am hoping there is a way to stop it on Firefox?</p><p></p><p>So an example is metacafe.com. If you open a video in a new tab, the video will start playing automatically, whether you click on the tab or not.</p><p></p><p>If you open up the same site in safari, and open the video in a new tab, the video will only start playing once you have clicked on the tab.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2) I know that holding cmd and clicking on a link opens it in a new window, but is it possible to assign for example a 3 finger click to open a link in a new tab?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Cheers</p><p>Ash</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ashy7, post: 1095959, member: 168538"] Hi All, I bought a 2.4Ghz MacBook pro last week. It is my first Mac, and I am slowly getting used to it. I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me out with (I have searched but found no answers!): 1) In Firefox on my old PC, and Safari on the current Mac, if I open a video in a new tab, the video would not auto-play, until I clicked on the tab. On Firefox on the Mac the video just auto plays. This is pretty annoying when I open 4 or 5 videos in different tabs and they all start playing. I want to click on the tab before it starts playing. As safari on the Mac does not play the videos automatically, I am hoping there is a way to stop it on Firefox? So an example is metacafe.com. If you open a video in a new tab, the video will start playing automatically, whether you click on the tab or not. If you open up the same site in safari, and open the video in a new tab, the video will only start playing once you have clicked on the tab. 2) I know that holding cmd and clicking on a link opens it in a new window, but is it possible to assign for example a 3 finger click to open a link in a new tab? Cheers Ash [/QUOTE]
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