how do I stop videos from repeating?
How do I either stop videos from autoplaying or auto repeating? Either one would be a blessing but I've searched and cannot find an effective way to do it. Blocking in Firefox is not effective. Mostly it seems in facebook, but I believe it repeats all the time on all sites.
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Tim, I managed to block video Autoplay by doing the following.
- go to the Tools menu (alt+T) and select settings.
- in the settings page, search for "Autoplay".
- find the Autoplay section in the results and press its settings button.
- in the dialogue box that opens, choose "Block Audio and Video" as Default for all web sites.
- press the save button.
(you might need to restart Firefox to see the change)
After doing this, I need to manually start playing a video for it to play.
However, I personally do not know if it is possible to prevent all sites from video looping, via a Firefox setting.
Okulungisiwe ngu TechHorse
That was my previous setting, but I'll try unsetting and resetting it again. Thanks
Doesn't work for me, but thanks.
You can look at these prefs in about:config to see what settings work for you to block media auto-play.
- media.autoplay.default = 5 [0:allow;1:blockAudible;5:blockAll]
- media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2
- media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages => false
- media.autoplay.block-event.enabled => true
- media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground
You can open about:config via the address/location bar. You can read the warning and click "Accept the Risk and Continue".