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Stop Autoplay is my favorite app on Firefox. It is no longer supported. Can I write a new version for Firefox?

BrianH replied
burnt_coyote

Stop Autoplay was removed by the creator's request. I strongly dislike the autoplay feature on websites and would like to disable it on the new Firefox. Can I write an app to do this and offer it to other users? I haven't upgrade my version of Firefox because this app is no longer supported.

Stop Autoplay was removed by the creator's request. I strongly dislike the autoplay feature on websites and would like to disable it on the new Firefox. Can I write an app to do this and offer it to other users? I haven't upgrade my version of Firefox because this app is no longer supported.

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I found a version that the writer of the original app made, but I just reformatted my computer, so I lost it and now I can can't find it. He made it as an extension instead of a plugin. I still don't know why this isn't an option of Firefox itself, but until I can find the version I had, I can't even surf the web...

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I found it! It's on the creator's website, but it's a 3-rd party addon, so someone out there must be updating it.

http://netticat.ath.cx/MyAddons/MyAddons.htm#sap

Thank you very, very much! The link worked, I've successfully updated FF and Stop Autoplay! Your help is sincerely appreciated.

Unfortunately, that website no longer exists... I wish I would have known that before I reformatted my computer again... Now there is no source for Stop Autoplay... >_<

That extension was maintained by NettiCat (NC): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/516763/

Here's Tubestop, for YouTube sites.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tubestop/

Appears to work fine, so far.