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Stopping Auto Start Of Videos

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Old_Geezer | 16:13 Wed 14th Sep 2016 | Computers
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Two related video type issues that is driving me nuts.

a) I go to some newspaper sites that include a video in their article and on playing it, it finally finishes and then the site seems to think it absolutely hilarious to load and play some thing else; like anyone would ever want to pay for video data they've not asked for out of their allowance.

b) Firefox likes to slow to a crawl or even crash out sometimes. For sure I have a lot of tabs open but they are things I want to go back to. So one closes it via Task Manager and opens, and restores. then all the tabs open on a video page, YouTube or whatever, opts to play the associated video (all at once) and one has to go searching for the offending tabs and try to stop them. Why does this happen and more importantly what can be done to stop auto playing it (the switch at the top left of YouTube pages is already set to autoplay off).

As I write I also recall a further issue. Sometimes when a video is blocked it starts the audio without the video, which is hardly any use. Again any thoughts on correcting that ?

Cheers.
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I haven't, thanks.
I'll give it a try when I've got the food cooking ;-)
I'm unsure if the issue is simply Firefox related but that is the one that keeps slowing to a crawl and crashing out occasionally.
Cheers.
Alternatively, type 'about:config' into Firefox's address bar.
Press 'Enter'.
Click on "I'll be careful".
Type 'plugins.click' into the search box.
You'll then be left with just the entry for 'plugins.click_to_play' showing, with the value shown as 'true'.
Double-click on that line to change the value to 'false'
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Well having down both now, maybe one will work even if I don't know which !
Thanks both.
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Changing subject very slightly, visited the Express news site using Chrome. Can something similar be used on that ?

Actually just tried it in Firefox, it also carried on to another video after the previous video finished :-(

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