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If you're running Chrome please for the love of all that is holy enable Click-To-Play for all plugins. With it disabled it is like running without a pop-up bloc

If you're running Chrome please for the love of all that is holy enable Click-To-Play for all plugins. With it disabled it is like running without a pop-up blocker. You can do so in Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Content Settings -> Plug-Ins -> Click To Play. When you visit a site which has a plug-in you'll get a UI control similar to the pop-up blocker which allows you to add it to the exceptions list and or to allow it just this one time. You should add YouTube to the exceptions list.

nickbaum 14y ago
Or better yet, switch YouTube to the HTML5 player: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 One less site that needs Flash.
- padraigm 14y ago
  Every time I join the YouTube HTML5 trial it gets silently turned off and videos start playing in Flash again a week or two later. Does that happen to anyone else?
  - nextstep 14y ago
    Yes! I have turned that on many times and I always end up watching flash videos again. I wonder if it had to do with my session cookie expiring. Does anyone know how they toggle this experiment on/off for different users?
    - moreati 14y ago
      I'm in the beta, I've never had to rejoin. Possibly because I'm logged into my Google account, which is linked to my Youtube account. Note that some Youtube videos are still delivered as Flash, I believe is whenever adverts are shown.
- barrkel 14y ago
  HTML5 videos on YT start automatically, which is exactly what I don't want, and in fact the second-biggest reason I use click-to-flash (first being animated ads). At one point, I was being forcibly opted into HTML5 video on YT and had to disable that feature in Firefox to get back out of it.
ams6110 14y ago
I'd go one step farther and just disable plugins. I have run without plugins for years and it really is a non-issue 95% of the time. If I absolutely need a plugin I will enable it for the time I need it and then disable it again.

nickbaum 14y ago

Or better yet, switch YouTube to the HTML5 player: http://www.youtube.com/html5 http://www.youtube.com/html5 One less site that needs Flash.

padraigm 14y ago
Every time I join the YouTube HTML5 trial it gets silently turned off and videos start playing in Flash again a week or two later. Does that happen to anyone else?
- nextstep 14y ago
  Yes! I have turned that on many times and I always end up watching flash videos again. I wonder if it had to do with my session cookie expiring. Does anyone know how they toggle this experiment on/off for different users?
  - moreati 14y ago
    I'm in the beta, I've never had to rejoin. Possibly because I'm logged into my Google account, which is linked to my Youtube account. Note that some Youtube videos are still delivered as Flash, I believe is whenever adverts are shown.
barrkel 14y ago
HTML5 videos on YT start automatically, which is exactly what I don't want, and in fact the second-biggest reason I use click-to-flash (first being animated ads). At one point, I was being forcibly opted into HTML5 video on YT and had to disable that feature in Firefox to get back out of it.

ams6110 14y ago

I'd go one step farther and just disable plugins. I have run without plugins for years and it really is a non-issue 95% of the time. If I absolutely need a plugin I will enable it for the time I need it and then disable it again.