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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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Simon2025年5月27日
4

Works as intended aside from it breaking downloaded videos via yt premium. it stops the video but it can’t be resumed (smth smth its streaming a local file not a url? idk)

Version 0.4.6Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
이정재2025年4月19日
4

잘써보게씁니다^^

Version 0.4.6Language ko
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Marvyn Orellana2024年11月20日
5

It works

Version 0.4.6Language en
Jakob Cosic2024年7月2日
1

It didn't get it working and buffering stills on and the video keeps stopping.

Version 0.4.6Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Josh Minar2024年5月22日
4

Excellent. Doesn't prevent buffer like I hoped, but does stop videos from playing every time they try.

Version 0.4.6Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Divyang Choudhary2024年4月1日
5

good

Version 0.4.6Language en
степан юрьев2024年3月1日
5

работае действительно!

Version 0.4.6Language ru
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jordan2024年1月9日
5

Thanks for this, I've been looking for an extension for Autoplay to stop, but none worked until I found this. It works 100% for me

Version 0.4.6Language en
overlord mcgeek2023年12月29日
5

I can now have less headaches with this.

Version 0.4.6Language en
Noah Walters2023年11月22日
2

The extension used to block the video from playing automatically when opening a video. Now it is opening an web page something like this: webextension.org (creator of the extension) when the extension is updated. Wish the creator stopped that. Uninstalled it, installed an tab auto closer: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabs-auto-close/mbodbfopnnihkmkhcojmieknngpcalhf, and added it to my list.

Version 0.4.6Language en
0 helpful · 3 not helpful