Open in Background but dont start the new tab
I cant find an option or an add-on that makes it so if I open a new tab it wont start automatically until i go into the tab itself this option is a thing on google but i just wanted to make sure that this is how your browser is set up or not this is usefull for me atleast because I could open multiple youtube/video pages without them starting because if i open one directly the other ones get lost and its a hastle to work around it because if I just open them in a new tab and they start i have to stop the video but then that ramps up my cpu usage because its videos that are open and are being loaded and everything. If my question isnt easily understandable please tell me then and i'll try to help make it simpler
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Hi, open Options (in the 3-bar menu unless you've moved it) > General (Tabs) and deselect 'When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately.'
If your question is resolved by this or another answer, please take a minute to let us know. Thank you!
Two thoughts:
Disable Autoplay of HTML5 Media
Firefox has a setting to disable autoplay of ALL HTML5 videos -- it doesn't switch off and on depending on whether a tab is foreground or background.
With this feature, when you activate the tab, the video player shows a pause button, and the video partially buffered, but nothing is playing. If you click pause and then play, THEN the video starts. If you want to try that:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste autop and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the media.autoplay.enabled preference to switch the value from true to false
Add-on Solution(s)?
In a thread Thursday, someone asked about this and I wrote a Greasemonkey user script as an experimental solution for YouTube. Do you want to test it out? You need these two things:
(1) Greasemonkey extension -- applies user scripts you install or write to pages: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
(2) Script: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/22426-youtube-wait-for-me-pause-and-start-player-in-background-tabs
Unfortunately, the script isn't fast enough to stop the video from playing at all, so there's a brief blast of sound. Hopefully I can solve it at some point.
Note: This script is for the normal setting with autoplay enabled, it doesn't work with autoplay disabled.
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Módosította: Ted.G,
disabling html5 just makes the video never start
Ted.G said
disabling html5 just makes the video never start
Do you mean disabling autoplay? Yes, that's exactly the point. If there's a play button, click it. If there's a pause button, that indicates the site tried to autoplay the video. Click the pause button, then click the play button.
If you want to try the script instead, do not disable autoplay.
I just saw reference to a preference you might want to test out instead of the userscript or another add-on. I'm not sure why it is disabled by default; it might be a little buggy.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste media.b and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the media.block-play-until-visible preference to switch the value from false to true
If you use this, let us know if it works well and/or has any strange side effects.