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How can I prevent Chrome from preloading HTML5 audio and video contents?

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Mar 15, 20266043 views
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I like HTML5 and its features a lot. But the one thing irritates me is that I can't control the actual downloading of contents. Every time I see an HTML5 audio file, say, in a RSS feed, Chrome will start to download it automatically! This is especially annoying when I don't have intention to listen…

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Unfortunately there doesn't currently seem to be a way to tell Chrome not to download resources until you explicitly request them (I even checked in their Extensions Web Store to see if someone wrote an extension that could do this). The Opera Devel…

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