Stop Autoplay for Youtube™
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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-17.
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Eases your YouTube™ experience through stopping the autoplay. This version doesn't automatically start Videos.
If you have ever opened a bunch of videos in the background, you will know how annoying it is when they all start playing automatically.
With this extension you will never have to worry about videos auto playing in the background. Plus, they will auto buffer, so no annoying load-spinner.
*Note*: This does not work with playlists, as YouTube™ itself offers an option to disable auto playing the next video for those!
Difference to "Stop Autoplay for Youtube™ Extended":
This extension here does not play videos automatically.
However, it doesn't stop auto play when you have the tab in foreground (so it doesn't annoy when watching a few videos in a row).
Changes:
4.0.6.3: Fixes not stopping on Channel pages and prevents stopping the video when the internet connection is slow
4.0.6: Fixes stopping when seeking / clicking play for the first time
4.0.5: This version fixes the "Video automatically plays when switching to the tab". I am sorry that this didn't work correctly.
4.0.4: Right click on YT Video -> Loop is now supported.
4.0.3: Fixes an issue, where videos would automatically stop playing on tab focus; Fixes: Prevents stopping fast-forward (Thanks for the bug report!)
4.0: Updated with fixes, higher performance and to counter an experiment by Youtube™ which automatically plays the video.
Official Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/stop-autoplay-youtube/
This Extension is Open-Source on GitHub: https://github.com/kurtextrem/StopAutoplay
Latest reviews
- klannstyle
- 18.11.23 - it doesn't work anymore ;-(
- 宋María
- la acabo de instlar pero no funciona.... :(
- dvb 2112
- Works great for me on my Windows 10 computer.
- Owen Ganson
- Is this ever gonna get updated to work again?
- Number Six
- Does not work at all.
- Boris Baran
- Does what it is supposed to do, nice!
- Nahuel Tarello
- A mí no me funcionó, no hace nada de lo que promete.
- Deborah Boucoyannis
- Bottom line: don't listen to the complaints. Get it. It is likely to at least drastically cut down the nuisance if not completely eliminate. Works I would say more than 90% of the time. It's really no longer a nuisance. VERY happy! The main issue is that it seems to have a problem when ads are loading--can't block some of them but it blocks enough. So far it is blocking every youtube tab i have open when i click on it. Even if it had a 50% success rate, this thing drives me so crazy, I would take what I can. But it's much better than that. It's appalling youtube does this. Who on earth wants this? And if some do, give the rest of us an option. Sometimes these software people are just torturers...
- Cristiano Alves de Souza
- A extensão Stop Autoplay for Youtube™ é uma ótima ferramenta para impedir que um vídeo aberto inicie sua reprodução automaticamente. Essa funcionalidade é muito útil, especialmente para aqueles que desejam economizar dados e evitar surpresas com o áudio ou vídeo de um vídeo começando sem aviso prévio. Além disso, a extensão é fácil de usar e não requer configuração complexa. Eu recomendo essa extensão para qualquer pessoa que deseje ter mais controle sobre a reprodução de vídeos no Youtube.
- Nicolas Cashew
- Did not work. Wasted time so hate it
- Thievius333
- Seems to work intermittently. On videos where it doesn't work, I find refreshing engages this extension and it will work, but that kind of defeats the purpose if you have to go through an extra step just to stop a video from playing. There's an extension on Edge that works better called "YouTube No Buffer - Stop Auto-playing" so I'm going to check and see if its on Chrome as well.
- bs 2021one
- Works....Useful effective lightweight extension....
- Mittz
- Подтверждаю комментарий Гимпа, оно работает на нулевой отметке, но если видео сколько-то просмотрено - пауза автоматом не ставится, это печально
- J Will
- it works now
- Dr. Norman
- Thank you finally what I was looking for to stop the f* anoing video autoplay at the beggining. You are a genius, thank yo so much.
- 沖田昌也
- 意味なかった (not work...)
- Google User
- doesn't work. that's that.
- GIMP ГИМП
- Тут пишут, что не работает. У меня заработало, но с одним НО. Если видео стоит не на самом начале, т.е. вы его уже просматривали, то оно начинает работать автоматически. Если же оно стоит на самом начале, то оно не запускается! Хорошо бы конечно было, если бы ни какое видео автоматом бы не запускалось, но такой вариант тоже не плох)
- Mareen Autaue
- i love the way you can get a new one 1⃣
- Dan Svensson
- This works in 2022
- A B
- das youtube video startet kurz und man hört es auch, dann stoppt es. ist okay, besser als ohne. aber schon störend. wäre besser wenn es gar nicht erst anfängt zu starten.
- Salinger
- Funciona até melhor do que eu buscava, eu sempre tive um grave problema de deixar abas do youtube abertas e logo após eu fechar o navegador e reabri-lo o pesadelo começava, mais de 700 vozes e músicas simultaneamente gritando no meu ouvido, o problema é que eu podia só mutar que não dava nada, o problema é que eu ainda tinha que pausar uma por uma das abas, isso simplesmente é a minha salvação.
- Jupiter 0000
- Niestety ale 90% filmów na youtube nie jest blokowana! Usuwam i idę szukać czegoś innego
- marek zakrzewski
- OK
- davu cooked
- Doesn't work.
- Jonathan Brown
- Ya, if it didn't have any affect i'd say maybe I wasn't using it right. But it does have an affect and it's really jenky. Some videos it stops from autoplaying, some it does not. So I would say no, doesn't work as purported.
- Diego Alexander
- los que dijeron que funciona tienen ano en vez de boca, y el desarrolllador es un tarado inepto
- Miguel Rodriguez
- Solo detiene el video al inicio, no es lo que buscaba en firefox no funciona tampoco para los desarrolladores: buscamos que el video no se inicie automaticamente y que se muestre la imagen en miniatura que seleccionamos en los videos.. porque? : porque los creadores de contenido necesitamos checkear que todo funcione bien y que incluso la miniatura cause impacto en los lectores/visores/suscriptores de nuestro canal
- P Z
- does not work 2-28-21
- Anno Niem
- Seems upoop (u no what i nean) now has even removed the button to disable autoplay. So now it's necessary to use this extension. I hope it keeps working.
- Papa Kanoc
- nem működött 0*
- Jem Crystal (Jem Fay Crystal)
- Works. I need to stop my vid at exact spot for my tutorial studies. I bookmark and return the next day. Don't want vid to shoot off bla bla bla before I've had my coffee. Need time turn speed down. Use this extension along with Enhancer for YouTube™ since that one's pause youtube stopped working.
- Pawel Bzm
- Yey it works :D
- camalotecosmico
- buscaba esto asi simple y efectivo... AL ABRIR UN VIDEO DE YOUTUBE .. SE PAUSA AL INICIO EN ALGUNAS OCASIONES PASA QUE SE PAUSA A LOS 2 O 3 SEGUNDOS PERO EN LA MAYORIA EL VIDEO SE PAUSA SIN HABER COOMENZADO... 100% RECOMENDABLE...
- max mustermann
- Works for me, thank you for your time and work!
- Aleksandr Loginov
- it works
- 67
- does not stop autoplay
- Mexie Mex
- I only wanted it for Watch Later where it doesn't work at all. Totally useless!
- Come On Fhqwhgads
- Still works OCCASIONALLY. Had to uninstall it & reinstall it to get it working again at all after Youtube's latest meddling. (Note that it's won't work if you're testing it on a refreshed video that has already loaded past 0:00, or if you open Chrome & it opens to a youtube video).
- Kaleb Kenway
- Does not work.
- Ярослав Алексеев
- Works properly.
- Hosa
- simply not working
- tomy
- it wont work
- Слеза алкоголика
- не работает
- Павел Кожевников
- Не работает
- S
- Absolute garbage, not worth even 1 second f my time. Do not recomended, do not work.
- Desprezo Lorde
- Worked perfectly.
- XY 20gy
- Not workng for me, sorry.
- Елена Таранко
- Становится и работает на ура. В интернет-магазин chrome есть ещё одно подобное расширение Auto Pause|Stop For Youtube, вот оно-то как раз глючило.
- qq qq
- Работает автоматическая постановка видео на паузу. +++++ У меня слабый комп и это спасает от перегрева процессора. Я копирую ссылку и смотрю через Pot Player/