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Now that ever more sites are transitioning to HTML5 videos, we need easy-to-use and ubiquitous browser options or addons to disable the autoplay of such videos

Now that ever more sites are transitioning to HTML5 videos, we need easy-to-use and ubiquitous browser options or addons to disable the autoplay of such videos as well as GIFs. Not everyone everywhere is on cheap broadband or fiber. Am rather surprised none of the browser vendors nor any addon maker has implemented such a functionality yet, although I'm most likely overlooking something here.

schiffern 10y ago
On Firefox set media.autoplay.enabled to false under about:config. As of version 41 this blocks play() unless you've interacted with the video. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285 You can also set plugins.click_to_play to true to do the same for Flash.