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how to stop youtube videos from playing after restart

Bandit885
Bandit885
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every time I restart firefox (currently 24.1.1 or 14.0.1) any tabs with youtube videos start playing and I have to wait until after restart is complete before I can find it/them. is there a way to stop this?

every time I restart firefox (currently 24.1.1 or 14.0.1) any tabs with youtube videos start playing and I have to wait until after restart is complete before I can find it/them. is there a way to stop this?

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I don't know of a way to stop auto-play on restart only. There are some extensions that can stop auto-play in general (i.e., all the time). I haven't tried any of them myself, but it looks as though these might help: