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I'm accustomed to using the FlashBlock plugin to disable those annoying advertisements that play automatically, but I'm unaware of any available plugin that accomplishes the same thing with WebM content. Any suggestions?

Withnail
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I decided to kill HTML5 totally in my Firefox, until flashblock supports it; and I'm trying to bribe the flashblock developers with my hard-earned cash...

meanwhile:

about:config
search: media.
media.autoplay.enabled = false
media.ogg.enabled = false
media.wav.enabled = false
media.webm.enabled = false

Now, tell me how to do it in chrome!

You could also use media.autoplay.enabled = false by itself, but Youtube cheats its way around that, so need this add-on too:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stop-youtube-autoplay/

See also: http://rubenerd.com/noscript-html5/ but I think noscript permanently disables the videos, no click-to-play; can only white-list the whole site.

Sam Watkins
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I have written an answer for this that should apply to all videos. It's basically a native feature available in Firefox Nightly (but also hopefully in the stable channel soon).

Andreas
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This add-on appears to block autoplay.

robertc
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