How to Disable YouTube Video Autoplay In Chrome, Firefox, Opera



There are different extensions like ImprovedTube, FlashStopper, etc using which you can disable autoplay functionality and set default video on streaming website YouTube.
How to stop YouTube Autoplay in Google Chrome?

By using ImprovedTube chrome extension.


ImprovedTube is a Chrome extension that modifies YouTube to give users more control over all aspects of the site. ImprovedTube is the ultimate Chrome extension to disable video autoplay on YouTube. It is a much needed thing considering the fact that many people actually don’t like the autoplay feature on YouTube.

Here are some useful options present in ImprovedTube:

Disable YouTube Autoplay


To do this, you need to click the red play button and then go to Player Settings. There, you need to select Auto Play Disabled. Now, reload the YouTube page. You can click on any video to see if it works.

Stop Playlist Autoplay and Up Next Autoplay


When we watch a video, an “up next” video list appears next to it. You can disable these autoplay videos in the Playlist Settings in ImprovedTube. Also, you can customize your YouTube experience by explore other options given in ImprovedTube .

 
How to stop video autoplay in Firefox?

By using media.autoplay.enabled


Mozilla Firefox has an inbuilt functionality using which you can disable video autoplay on YouTube and other websites. To turn this on, you need to change the value of media.autoplay.enabled preference to false in the Firefox configuration editor:
1.   In the Firefox address bar, type about:config and press enter.
2.   Click, I accept the risk! warning message.
3.  Search for media.autoplay.enabled in the list of preferences. You can use the search bar where you can type autoplay.
4. Double-click the media.autoplay.enabled and its value will be set to false.
Now, you can visit YouTube and play any video to see if it works.

By using FlashStopper


The inbuilt option in Firefox can stop the video autoplay but the internet bandwidth is still consumed. If you want to save your data, you can use this extension called FlashStopper. In addition to disabling a video from playing automatically, it also prevents it from buffering.

FlashStopper also works on:

• YouTube - flash & html5

• Facebook

• Dailymotion

• Msn | Bing

• Yahoo - flash & html5 (with proactive blocking)

Disable YouTube Autoplay in Opera

By using ImprovedTube

Since Opera is based on the Chromium web browser, it supports the extensions compatible with Chromium. Other popular web browsers like Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Internet Explorer don’t have the functionality to disable HTML5 videos and eventually YouTube videos.


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