Stop automatic video play in Firefox
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Mar 15, 202618397 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Is there a way to let embedded videos (primarily Flash, but I'd prefer something that will also work with HTML5 video) automatically background load, but not start playing until explicitly started? The typical use case where I want this ability is when opening a number of what I expected to be text…
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For embeded videos you can set media.autoplay.enabled to false in about:config. For flash-players you can either disable automatic flash loading/start with some addon or use custom addons/greasemonkey scripts to disable each specific player's autopl…
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