How to disable autoplay in Youtube

[james438]

james438 last edited by

I'm not sure if this is what you are referring to, but on the top right of the list of videos where it says "up next" and to the right of that there is a button called "autoplay" with a check box. If it is blue then youtube will play video after video forever. If it is gray it will only play the video you select and then stop.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

There are a couple of extensions that allows you to set YT videos to not autoplay.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

My apologies, everone -- I just realised that my post may have been confusing, since there is a feature in Youtube called "autoplay", and that is not what I was trying to stop. I was trying to stop Opera from "automatically playing" the video when I visit Youtube. Currently, if you visit a Youtube page with a video on it, the video starts playing immediately, even if you have "click to play" enabled in Opera.

[I think it was fairly clear what I meant if one reads my whole post instead of just the title of my post, but in case it wasn't: I want the "click to play" setting to work as expected, also on Youtube.]

The solution that I found was the extension which forces Youtube to use Flash instead of HTML5. If you force Youtube to use Flash instead of HTML5, then Opera's "click to play" feature works correctly on Youtube.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

As i said, there are extensions that prevents autoplay on YT even if the html5 playes is being used.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

LeoCG, instead of saying "there are extensions out there", can you give a few examples of working extensions that provides click-to-play on Youtube, even if HTML5 is used? I did try several extensions myself, but perhaps/hopefully you know of one or two that actually work.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Maguc Actions used to work but recently i started having issues with it in latest developer build.

Improved Tube may work too.

[james438]

james438 last edited by

Magic Actions

ImprovedTube - YouTube Extension

There seems to be an overabundance of youtube extensions to sort through.

[brnrds]

brnrds last edited by

Right, me to
Magic Actions was a marvellous plugin.
Works on other browsers Ok, but not properly on Opera lately

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Magic Actions
ImprovedTube - YouTube Extension
There seems to be an overabundance of youtube extensions to sort through.

But i guess that just a few claim to stop autoplay.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Magic Actions works for me if I select the option "Stop Autoplay", thanks. I wonder if Magic Actions only works on Youtube -- I haven't tried it with other web sites that use HTML5 video. As for ImprovedTube, I just love the fact that I can watch videos at higher speed.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

I wonder if Magic Actions only works on Youtube

Yes, that's the reason for the name "Magic Actions for Youtube".

[l33t4opera]

l33t4opera last edited by

Hi @ugcheleuce: if you want a solution, which also works on many other websites, you can install the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" extension

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

"Disable HTML5 Autoplay" extension will disable auto-play, but not auto-loading too (even tho it say so)
better solution is to use Magic Action, force HTML5 video and disable auto-play, auto-load etc... (at least for me)
version from Chrome web store works fine, version from Opera addons store is old/bugged one