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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ icon

Disable Autoplay for YouTube™

Disable YouTube HTML5 player from auto-playing.

Users20KCurrent public install base
Rating3.2Store average score
Reviews221Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version0.1.4
ManifestV3
Size37.86KiB
Languages1English
Published
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Overview

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Disable Autoplay for YouTube™ is a lite extension that lets you easily stop/pause YouTube videos from auto-playing.

The toolbar button serves as an ON|OFF switch for this addon (the icon will change color accordingly). The red color shows an active state and the dark grey color shows a disabled state. To work with this addon, please add this addon to your browser and then start browsing YouTube. When the addon is active, videos are stopped automatically from playing when you open one. When videos are stopped, the buffering does not continue. You can change this behavior from the options page and let the videos "pause" instead of "stop". This way, the buffering continues but the video won't play. There is another option on the settings page to play or pause videos when a tab is focused or hidden (unfocused). These two options are not active by default. This addon works for all YouTube videos whether they are embedded or not. However, you can disable this feature from the settings page.

Note 1: when you switch to the miniplayer, the video stops again. So if you want to use the youtube miniplayer feature, please turn off this addon.

Note 2: by default, this addon does not work for youtube shorts and the small video player on the channel page. To enable this feature, please mark option #3 on the settings page.

To report bugs, please fill out the bug report form on the addon's homepage (https://mybrowseraddon.com/disable-autoplay.html).

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Store average score3.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.1Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text180Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews221Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 3.2. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Ahmed Seoudi2024年6月26日
1

Not working!

Version 0.1.2Language en
3 helpful · 1 not helpful
Owr2024年6月24日
1

stopped working as of today. Not sure why. 10/28/24

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ayush Desai2024年6月19日
1

Not working

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Leo2024年4月17日
5

Brilliant, exactly what I wanted! Yes, it does show a black screen, but it plays when you click on it.

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Mullah Gripe2024年4月17日
5

Works exactly how it should be.. Very user-friendly and straight to the point, no fluff and no useless features. Definitely a keeper extension for me 💎 One thing I'm hoping to be fixed in the near future though is when you click a new video while in miniplayer mode, it plays automatically instead of showing a black screen (which it does when you go back to regular viewing mode). But overall, pretty neat extension!

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Alice Noel2024年4月15日
1

It doesn't work in playlists and videos have a black screen.

Version 0.1.2Language en
2 helpful · 5 not helpful
CHAOS CHAOS2024年4月10日
5

good

Version 0.1.2Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Max Rein2024年3月27日
1

В "новом дизайне" youtube расширение не работает.

Version 0.1.2Language ru
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
mail pbelle2024年3月18日
1

Does not work ! Ne fonctionne pas !!!!!

Version 0.1.2Language fr
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
JackS Pk2024年3月6日
5

As of March 2024, this extension works perfectly for Chrome Version 122.0.6261.69. I needed a simple extension to pause videos that I often leave open in multiple tabs, which tend to play simultaneously upon restarting Chrome. The extension immediately pauses the video during the loading of the YouTube page, displaying it as a black rectangle. Upon clicking on it, the video promptly resumes without having to wait for it to load. I haven't tested any other functionalities, so I can't comment on whether they work correctly or not.

Version 0.1.2Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful