How to Stop Autoplaying Videos on Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari

Autoplay videos are everywhere on the internet these days. A few years ago, these videos used to be Flash videos, which could be easily stopped by simply disabling Flash on your browser. However, as the internet has moved to better technologies, such as HTML5 for videos, autoplaying videos have evolved with it.

Most of the time, these autoplay videos tend to be nothing more than annoying news announcements you don’t need, or worse, advertisements. There is an easy way to block this content on every PC browser, just follow the steps below.

Google Chrome
Disabling autoplay videos on Google Chrome is easy. How is this done.

1. Launch Chrome browser and install the Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension by opening the linked page and clicking on it Add to Chrome.
2. Now open any website (e.g. YouTube) and you will find that the video no longer plays automatically.

opera
Follow the steps below to disable autoplay videos on Opera.

1. Opera can also use an extension to disable HTML5 autoplay. Launch Opera and install it from the linked page by clicking add to opera.
2. Now you will notice that the video no longer plays automatically.

Firefox
You don’t need a browser extension to disable autoplaying videos on Firefox. These steps will do that for you.

1. Open Firefox.
2. type About:Configuration in the address bar. beat Enter.
3. Click I accept the risk!.
4. type Media autoplay enabled next to search:.
5. double click Media autoplay enabled Make the value become Wrong.

This will prevent the video from playing automatically on Firefox.

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To disable autoplaying videos on Safari, you need to open Terminal on macOS. Thanks to Kirkville.com, we discovered this method. Try these steps.

1. First you need to quit Safari. according to cmd+Q Or click on the top bar Safari > Exit Safari.
2. Now open the terminal. according to cmd + spacebar. type terminal and press Enter.
3. Paste this command into the terminal: The default is written to com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2AllowsInlineMediaPlayback -bool false.
4. This disables autoplaying videos on Safari. To enable it again, use the following command: The default is written to com.apple.Safari WebKitMediaPlaybackAllowsInline -bool false.

By using these steps, you can stop videos from playing automatically no matter which browser you use on Windows and Mac PCs. You can still click on a video to play it if you want, but you won’t have it playing unexpectedly and loudly anymore.

That’s all you need to stop videos from autoplaying on your browser. For more tutorials, visit our how-to section.