Click the Security icon and click Manage Website Settings to the right of Internet plug-ins.Note (): due to lack of time (and interest, and how is Flash still alive anyway?), today’s upload of version 31.0.0.108 will be the last version I repackage. To change these settings, open Safari, click the Safari menu, and select Preferences. This setting can be adjusted individually for each plug-in you have installed. Safari on Mac OS X also has a way to enable click-to-play for plug-ins. Enable the Click to play option under Plug-ins. To enable it, click the Opera menu button, select Settings, and select Websites on the Settings page.

This setting is also available in Opera, which is no surprise considering Opera is now based on Chrome. (Update: This extension is no longer available.) Instead of using an option built into Mozilla Firefox, you can install the Flashblock extension. There may be a way to override this, but we can’t find it. We can’t find a way to enable click-to-play for Flash in Firefox - Mozilla made a decision to make all Flash content bypass their click-to-play feature. There’s a plugins.click_to_play setting in Firefox’s hidden about:config page, but it’s enabled by default. Mozilla Firefox uses click-to-play for most plug-in content by default, but it will still load Flash content. If you decide to install one, try to pick an extension with good reviews from lots of users - it doesn’t guarantee that the extension is safe, but it does increase the odds of someone spotting suspicious behavior and will give you a good idea of the extension’s effectiveness.

While they may be more effective, it is worth remembering that browser extensions are a privacy nightmare, and they present a real security risk. For the most part, they seem to work, though none are perfect. There are a large number of browser extensions that promise to give you click-to-play functionality.

That leaves you with basically one option: Third-party browser extensions. As of April 2022, this type of browser setting is so ineffective it isn’t even worth trying out. We spent some time with the browsers and found that almost everything online was unaffected by the setting and autoplayed like normal. The trouble is that they don’t really work. Chrome doesn’t have such a setting at all.

The answer is a resounding “sort of.” Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Brave all have settings that should allow you to disable autoplay for sound and video.

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