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How do I prevent videos from launching automatically when I visit a web page? I don't want to disable java altogether.

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smccullo
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Some pages have so many of these boxes that you end up hearing two or more at once and it's really annoying. I want the video boxes to just sit there doing nothing unless and until I click the play arrow.

Some pages have so many of these boxes that you end up hearing two or more at once and it's really annoying. I want the video boxes to just sit there doing nothing unless and until I click the play arrow.

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the-edmeister
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Update Firefox - there is a Click to Play feature which can be enabled in about:config

plugins.click_to_play

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Opt-in_activation_for_plugins

cor-el
cor-el
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Do not enable click-to-play in current Firefox releases, especially not in that old Firefox 12 version that you are using.
There are too many issues with it.

Maybe this extension:

smccullo
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Thanks for the suggestions.

I have updated my browser as suggested, which also necessitated a java update. Changing the click-to-play setting did prevent videos from playing, but now I don't even see a still image to know whether it's anything I might want to play. (I just see the gray "get plug in" box.) I found it also prevented me from accessing some other java-launched content (in one case a pdf file I wanted to open).

I think I'll put it back and try the next suggestion.

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