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Background tabs (ex. Youtube videos) loading automatically! I want to keep background tabs from loading at all until I click on them

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In the tab preferences it has an option where it says "Don't load tabs until selected"! It doesn't really work because while on YouTube if I press Command + Left Click (for mac) or Right Click - Open in new tab, that background YouTube video tab will load automatically. I then have to pause the current video I am watching and switch to the new background tab I just made and pause and then go back to the first tab. In safari it automatically does this! I absolutely love Firefox! It is an awesome browser; this is the only problem I have with it! I really hope I can get this resolved! Thank you!

In the tab preferences it has an option where it says "Don't load tabs until selected"! It doesn't really work because while on YouTube if I press Command + Left Click (for mac) or Right Click - Open in new tab, that background YouTube video tab will load automatically. I then have to pause the current video I am watching and switch to the new background tab I just made and pause and then go back to the first tab. In safari it automatically does this! I absolutely love Firefox! It is an awesome browser; this is the only problem I have with it! I really hope I can get this resolved! Thank you!

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You know, I never thought about that until just now.. Firefox comes standard with that option checked and it still loads the page fully.. (i'm on PC but i'm guessing ctrl + left click does the same since it did what you just described).

Never knew such a feature existed.

I have this problem too, apparently :P

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