Thank you for responding, rdellconsulting.
I think perhaps we are missing something here. While removing all or any of the plug-ins may be an interesting exercise, and I’ll try it to satisfy both of us, I strongly suspect that it will not make any difference for the following reason:
The “pause” is intentional. By design, hovering the cursor over the slider causes the slider to pause – ANYTIME – including at initial launch. I understand that and it is doing just exactly that. I’m not suggesting that there is an error in the program, rather a condition that (to a novice – specifically my client) it appears that the slider is not working when they first launch the site AND the cursor coincidentally happens to be hovering on the slider box – therefore causing the slider to “Pause”.
What I am requesting is a suspension of the pause until the slider has FIRST moved, then initiate the pause routine. This way the slider will always be active upon launch and then may be paused AFTER that time as/if desired.
IMHO, Jetpack is a very standard plug-in and I would be quite concerned if the Customizr theme is not compatible with it. I am using Jetpack to develop a gallery on this site and I would prefer not to remove it.