How to prevent auto playing HTML5 and flash in Chrome

It is irritating when you see that the videos are being auto played. Just consider when you are starting a browsing session and suddenly from nowhere a video plays in the background. You curse it to hell. If it turns out be something, you end up being embarrassed. 

You should avoid using Chrome extensions so that the videos are prevented from being played automatically. This would keep you way from embarrassment as well as save bandwidth. It also ensures that you have an enjoyable browsing experience by averting such interludes.

Flash

Flash is one of the main ways as to the way the videos are rendered. It can be disabled with the help of chrome extension. Go to settings and scroll down to ‘Show Advanced Settings’ in Chrome menu. Click it and under Privacy heading, click ‘Content Settings’. A pop-up window appears which can be scrolled down to Plug-ins and chooses the Click to play ‘radio button’. This would stop flash player plugin. If you click on blocked plugin area the videos would play then. 

You can also make use of Chrome flash blocker extension. In case of Chrome extension on has the control over what would play and what would not.

HTML 5

Though Flash is the most popular as far as videos are concerned. HTML5 is also used for instance YouTube uses it. HTML5 does not use flash. Therefore you cannot prevent the videos from auto-playing by using flash blocker. You can use a free Chrome extension Chrome extension: Magic Actions for YouTube. Download it from the web store.

Open the Options page. After setting it up click on purple “Options” button. You can also go to chrome menu, scroll down to Tools and choose Extensions. Look for the Magic Actions extension. Thereftaer click on options. Now click Options button. You would be directed to developer’s site to select the settings. Scroll down to Stop Autoplay option. Magic Actions also allow customizing every aspect of YouTube. Other than this it also:

·         Choose resolution

·         Control video volume  

·         Make use of wide player

·         Choose customizations through simple interface which consists of checkboxes

·         All advanced setting scan be accessed through bar which appears under all YouTube videos.

 

To keep your bandwidth, automatic loading should be prevented through Chrome extensions.