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This happened today and the URL was n, which thankfully timed out and did not display. On a couple of my tabs, when I load them, they redirect to a suspicious link and display a pop-up. When using Slimjet 10, it was fine, but using Slimjet 16 I have this issue.

Select View advanced settings and toggle off Use Adobe Flash Player.Įdge does not have the ability to block HTML5 video, and with the anemic state of Edge development, I wouldn’t anticipate Microsoft adding a feature that someone would actually want any time soon.I've only been recently having this problem, from when I switched from Slimjet 10 up to Slimjet 16 (due to support in SJ 10 being dropped).

Open Edge and select the Settings menu.

Edge allows you to turn Flash on or off altogether, but doesn’t let you have the option of playing Flash videos if you want to.

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If you are one of the four people in the world who use Edge to do something other than download a better browser, you can still turn off Flash videos. Open Terminal and type ‘defaults write IncludeInternalDebugMenu 0’.If you don’t want to leave debugging on, turn it off again by: This will stop all videos from playing automatically in Safari. Select Media Flags and Disallow Inline Video.Open Safari and select the new Debug option in the top menu.Type ‘defaults write IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1’, hit Enter and close Terminal.Open Terminal and make sure Safari is closed.To autoplay videos in Safari you need to enable debugging mode and then implement a quick tweak.

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Install and enable the plugin to block HTML5 videos.

As in Chrome, the link doesn’t always work so you may have to search for it.

Visit this site and download the Stop YouTube HTML5 Autoplay plugin.

To block HTML5 videos in Opera you need the same plugin as in Chrome.

Show Advanced settings and select Content settings.

Open Opera and select the menu icon and then Settings.

Opera is based on Chromium, so the same instructions for Chrome apply. However, notice that it will also not automatically buffer in case you want to watch it later. Now when you land on a page, the video window should appear but not play automatically.

Search for ‘’ and double click to set it to false.

Click “I’ll be careful I promise” if you see the popup window.

Open Firefox and type about:config into the URL bar.

While many websites have gotten the message, there are a few out there (*cough* CNET *cough*) who think they know best what I want to see.

Autoplaying video simply pushes users away from your site and towards sites that will treat them with more respect and courtesy. Not only do autoplaying videos annoy the users of a website, they waste your hosting bandwidth as well as the users’ data bandwidth.

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If users want to watch a video, they know how to push play. It’s even worse on mobile – not only is your screen real estate wasted by some invasive ad, you’re now paying data rates for a video that you didn’t want to see in the first place.Īutoplaying videos are bad design, but even worse than that, they are bad manners. It’s just as bad when you just browse to a web page and hear the video start playing before you even start to look at the page. That’s right, in one of those tabs, there’s a video and it’s set to autoplay, and now you get to play Hunt-The-Video through all your tabs to find it and shut it down, or just turn off your speakers altogether. We’ve all been there – you’ve got a dozen browser tabs or more open and you’re working (or playing) hard, when suddenly your speakers start spewing music or noise out of nowhere. Stop Annoying Autoplay Videos in Any Browser