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My system is Manjaro Linux with Firefox 41.0.2.

When I visit certain websites like youtube or HackerRank, they start playing videos automatically. I want to stop these websites from auto-playing videos as well as even buffering the videos unless I want them to do that.

Is there something that works on firefox 41+ on linux?

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You need to install extensions to Firefox:

uBlock for publicity - far better than adblock, not receiving money to let certain ads pass, and using less resources;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock/

FlashBlock to enable only Flash on the few occasions you want to use it, are superb;

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/flashblock/

You also have Stop Tube HTML5 to stop HTML5 auto-starting videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stop-tube/

In the server side, you also have got a very interesting project to use a raspberry pi as an ad blocker for your network, pi-hole

http://pi-hole.net

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Firefox has a hidden setting to disable html5 video autoplay.

Go to about:config then set media.autoplay.enabled to false.

That will at least disable autoplaying. It does not disable buffering but firefox only buffers a small portion of the video.

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