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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

How to Stop Videos From Starting Automatically on Facebook



There is nothing more irritating then being at work, school or simply at home and a video kicks on and starts to cause all kinds of problems. Facebook has the habit of streaming videos no matter what kind of weak powered Chrome Book you might be on. There is a simple solution to this and I will walk you through it.

If you are Running Firefox then follow these simple instructions.

You can enable a feature called Click To Play that replaces Flash content with a static image that you have to click on before the media will load and play. This is what it will look like.
To enable Click To Play -

1) Type about:config into your URL bar. This will bring up a warning but simply ignore it and dismiss it.

2) Type plugins.click_to_play into the search bar and press enter. This will bring up the file on your screen.

3) Right click on the file and then select Toggle.

4) Restart Firefox and when a video that use to auto start will instead be replaced with the above image.

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