disable flash in mozilla firefox portable

It is unclear why it is taking so long to implement these options as it would improve usability significantly for many users. It is long overdue that browser makers add options to their browsers to give users full control over auto-playing content on websites. Update: We have published an updated guide that explains in detail how to stop auto playing videos in all popular web browsers.

It won't work on YouTube but does work on many other sites that auto-play videos usually.Ĭhrome users who don't want YouTube videos to auto-play can install Magic Actions for YouTube which ships with an option to block videos from playing automatically on the site. Pause all HTML5 videos on load works similar to the Firefox preference in that it blocks most HTML5 videos from auto-playing. There is also a userscript that you may want to try out.

The Firefox preference mentioned above will block the majority but not all of them. Voila Flash file is saved and hosted in your playlist now, you can play it whenever you want To add Flash player to the browser, click 'Add to Firefox' button from the right corner of this pop up window. There is no universal solution yet to block HTML5 videos from auto-playing on websites. Simply navigate to the webpage, which hosts flash file, you want to play, open an add-on, choose from detected files and click the Add button. YouTube for instance continues to auto-play videos even if you set the preference to false in the browser. Firefox does ship with the preference which you can set to false on about:config and while it does prevent some videos from being played automatically, it won't prevent all HTML5 video contents as there are ways to bypass the restriction.

Disable flash in mozilla firefox portable