{"id":4210,"date":"2017-02-16T03:03:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2024-06-18T05:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:03:05","slug":"how-to-stop-autoplaying-videos-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-stop-autoplaying-videos-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Autoplaying Videos in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens all the time. You open a web page expecting to read a plain text article and you&#8217;re confronted by a video that starts rolling without your permission. Fortunately, if you&#8217;re on Firefox, there&#8217;s a built-in option that prevents videos from starting until you click their play buttons.<\/p>\n<p>In our experience testing the feature, it worked pretty well, preventing autoplays on YouTube, on video ads we encountered and on a number of web articles we visited. However, if you&#8217;re on YouTube and you click from one video to another, without refreshing the page, the subsequent videos don&#8217;t require you to hit play.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to disable autoplay videos in Firefox:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: inherit\">Launch Firefox<\/strong><span>, if it&#8217;s not already open.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;font-style: inherit\">Type &#8220;about:config&#8221;<\/strong><span>\u00a0into the address bar and hit Enter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2016\/10\/1475980133_43892.png\" alt=\"type about:config\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">Enter &#8220;autoplay&#8221;<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0into the searchbox beneath the address bar. A list of results should appear below.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2016\/10\/1475980225_417134.png\" alt=\"type autoplay\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;color: #494949\">Double click on media.autoplay.enabled.<\/strong><span style=\"color: #494949\">\u00a0It should change from &#8220;true&#8221; to &#8220;false.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laptopmag.com\/images\/wp\/purch-api\/incontent\/2016\/10\/1475980424_670253.png\" alt=\"dboule click media.autoplay.enabled\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #494949\">From now on, the web videos will not autoplay.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens all the time. You open a web page expecting to read a plain text article and you&#8217;re confronted by a video that starts rolling without your permission. Fortunately, if you&#8217;re on Firefox, there&#8217;s a built-in option that prevents videos from starting until you click their play buttons. In our experience testing the feature, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4871,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}