In addition to disabling a video from playing automatically, it also prevents it from buffering.įlashStopper can disable flash as well as HTML5 videos on various sites including YouTube.

If you want to save your data, you can use this extension called FlashStopper. The inbuilt option in Firefox can stop the video autoplay but the internet bandwidth is still consumed. Please note, the video will still buffer. Now, you can visit YouTube and play any video to see if it works. Double-click the and its value will be set to false.You can use the search bar where you can type autoplay. Search for in the list of preferences.Click, I accept the risk! warning message.By this (user interaction) chrome means just a single tap OR click by the user on the website (everywhere, not video components only). However they allow to autoplay video if it is muted and WILL NOT stop it if user will unmute it. In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press enter. According to chrome logic it is impossible to autoplay video if it is NOT muted.To turn this on, you need to change the value of preference to false in the Firefox configuration editor: Mozilla Firefox has an inbuilt functionality using which you can disable video autoplay on YouTube and other websites.

Chrome autoplay video disabling