It is unclear why it is taking so long to implement these options as it would improve usability significantly for many users. The image example is pretty simple and was actually written by Paul Rouget as a demo in the original Firefox bug request. See the following screencast for a context menu demo. In Firefox 8 (the current one) we have support for those. It is long overdue that browser makers add options to their browsers to give users full control over auto-playing content on websites. Using HTML5 and a menu element you can add new options to these without having to write a browser add-on. Update: We have published an updated guide that explains in detail how to stop auto playing videos in all popular web browsers. It won't work on YouTube but does work on many other sites that auto-play videos usually.Ĭhrome users who don't want YouTube videos to auto-play can install Magic Actions for YouTube which ships with an option to block videos from playing automatically on the site. Pause all HTML5 videos on load works similar to the Firefox preference in that it blocks most HTML5 videos from auto-playing. There is also a userscript that you may want to try out. The Firefox preference mentioned above will block the majority but not all of them. There is no universal solution yet to block HTML5 videos from auto-playing on websites. YouTube for instance continues to auto-play videos even if you set the preference to false in the browser. Firefox does ship with the preference which you can set to false on about:config and while it does prevent some videos from being played automatically, it won't prevent all HTML5 video contents as there are ways to bypass the restriction.
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