both types to be safe.
After following the steps below, the problem should be minimized for the
most part. But even after applying these changes, you can’t be completely
sure you one or two videos won’t slip by — some publishers use custom-made
code to fool your browser into thinking it isn’t dealing with a video.
Google Chrome
As far as HTML5 is concerned, you’re going to need some third-party help to
stop playback. From the extensions we’ve seen, Disable HTML5 Autoplay
seems to be the most comprehensive
and effective option, though a small number of users report that it doesn’t
work. It effectively stopped clips from playing on YouTube and Facebook when
we tested it.
This can be found at the next link. However, google Crome must be installed
to download any of the google crome apps.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-autoplay/efdhoaajjjg
ckpbkoglidkeendpkolai/reviews?hl=en
For the older Flash technology, you can block this at source, as it’s built
into Chrome. Head to the Settings tab, open the advanced settings selection,
and then click on the Content settings button. Under the Plugins heading,
tick the checkbox next to “Let me choose when to run plugin content”.
On some sites, this should be enough, but we found plenty of adverts getting
through the net. To completely stop the flow, click Manage individual
plugins and untick the “Always allowed to run” entry next to Adobe Flash
Player
This does mean you’ll have to activate Flash on sites that rely on it to
work (like Rdio, for example), but this should be a one-time thing you can
take care of via the blocked plugin icon that appears in the address bar —
it’s a small price to pay for some peace and quiet. You can always go
nuclear and disable Flash completely if you prefer.
Mozilla Firefox
(I do not use firefox or google crome. However a friend said these tips do
work. I u sually like writing the keyboard commands and ask forgiveness for
not supplying these this time.)
In Firefox, HTML5 that can be disabled through the browser’s own settings.
Type “about:config” into the address bar, click through the warning and
search for “autoplay” options — double-click on media.autoplay.embed and the
value changes to false.
As for Flash, open up the Firefox menu and choose Add-ons; if you click on
Plugins from the subsequent screen you can select Ask to Activate from the
drop-down menu next to Shockwave Flash. Any Flash videos will then need to
be clicked on before they play (as with Chrome, this may interfere with some
perfectly useful sites as well).
That should be enough to stop videos from playing, but sites and advertisers
change their code on a constant basis and browsers don’t always manage to
keep up. A variety of third-party extensions are available for Firefox too,
from FlashStopper
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/01/how-to-stop-videos-from-auto-playing-in
-four-popular-browsers/
to Stop YouTube HTML5
.
https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-US/firefox/addon/stop-tube/
The former replaces both Flash and HTML5 content with a thumbnail, and you
may prefer it to the rather rudimentary blocking features in Firefox itself.
Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer
With Microsoft Edge still at such an early stage in its development — and
with third-party extensions not yet supported — there doesn’t appear to be
any way yet for you to stop video content from automatically playing. If you
go into the advanced settings for the browser, you can supposedly turn off
Adobe Flash Player, but it had no effect on the sites we visited (your
mileage may vary).
As for the old-school joys of Internet Explorer, you can choose Safety and
tick ActiveX Filtering to block some kinds of content; another option is to
choose Tools then Manage add-ons to get access to the Shockwave Flash
plugin. Right-click to disable it, or choose More information to remove it
from one site in particular.
The steps for IE described above are the ones most commonly recommended, and
they stopped some auto-playing content, but plenty still got through — it
seems that Chrome and Firefox are much more effective at blocking this
behaviour than either the old or new browsers from Microsoft. If you know of
a foolproof way that works, let us know.
At the link below.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/01/how-to-stop-videos-from-auto-playing-in
-four-popular-browsers/]]>
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