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YouTube™ No Buffer - Stop Autoplaying icon

YouTube™ No Buffer - Stop Autoplaying

Prevents YouTube HTML5 and Flash players from auto-buffering (auto-playing) videos

Users10KCurrent public install base
Rating3.9Store average score
Reviews190Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version0.5.0
ManifestV3
Size44.92KiB
Languages1English
Published
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This extension stops YouTube HTML5 and Flash players from auto-buffering videos. Using this add-on (extension) you can save bandwidth and also prevent YouTube on multiple tabs from buffering media simultaneously.

You will have to click on the player to allow buffering of the media files. Once a player is buffered, it can play multiple tracks. There is no need to activate the player on each new track (so you can easily watch playlists for instance).

Features:

1. Stop auto-playing on "/watch?v=" pages

2. Stop auto-playing on "/user/" pages

3. Stop auto-playing on "/channel/" pages

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Store average score3.9Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.6Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text126Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews190Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Kirti Parikh2017年12月10日
4

nice

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All That'sLeft2017年11月15日
2

At first it was not bad, though often the vid starts, then the page reloads and then it stops buffering. Yes, even this can kill bandwidth for those of us on metered connections. Also often the comments and other sections of the page do not load. But lately, the past few days it barely works at all -- most of the time the vid is playing in totally white page, and cannot be stopped, after a few minutes it may or MAY NOT reload the page/player and stop the buffering. Something broke it seems.

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2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Addi Aaj2017年11月13日
4

I am a preferred Firefox user. However there are time I need to use Chrome. And this extension did exactly what it should do which is, stop youtube video from autoplaying when opening new tabs.

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Shailesh Tripathi2017年11月13日
1

Not working... please update!

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mohamed Ahmed2017年10月31日
5

THANKKKKKKKKKK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I HAVE SLOW INTERNET SO WHEN I OPEN 3 OR 4 VIDEOS I CAN T SEE NON OF THEM AND I HAVE TO KEEP WAITING TO SCROLL BUT NOW IT IS FIXED SO TY

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0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Mukibul H2017年9月22日
3

Give us an option so that we can stop buffering a running video. it initially stops buffer but after I play the video the buffer can't be stopped, I have to close tab to save my data (Band width). My point is, I want to stop buffering and stay in the tab (without closing it).

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1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Bryan “Ironman” Stark2017年9月9日
3

it works on videos already qued up such as a playlist but not all videos. the controls seemed to disappear when I loaded a video.

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ervin Fin2017年9月3日
4

Works only in Background Tab

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nishi2017年8月5日
2

not working on some videos

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4 helpful · 0 not helpful
Stefan Deutsch2017年6月9日
5

Works great. Chrome 59.0.3071.86, Win 10 (64 bit)

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful