prevent youtube playing the video automatically [closed]

Question

one thing that annoys me on youtube is that it always starts playing the video automatically after opening the video page.

is there a way how to prevent it? i don't see such option in profile settings.

Answer 1

There plenty of greasemonkey scripts available to do this exact thing (search for 'autoplay'). Also, this belongs on Super User.

Answer 2

You can install the flashblock firefox extention. That will prevent anything flash from starting automatically. This works perfectly on youtube, and as a bonus it will get rid of a huge amount of annoying ads with blinking text or whatnot.