Images and videos are loaded when the web page loads. It’s a natural web experience. Also, there are some websites that want their media to be loaded when you click on it. Now, that’s an unfriendly experience. Thankfully, you don’t get this user-friendly experience on all websites. But the number of non-user friendly websites is steadily increasing.
What you can do, however, is disable automatic loading of these images and videos when opening a web page. And when you want to see them, just reload the page.
That’s what I’m going to show you today. This can be useful if you have a metered connection or slower speeds. So let’s see how you can do this in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
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Stop automatically loading images and videos in Chrome
Handmade
First, I’ll show you how to manually disable images in Chrome. Chrome already provides a direct option to disable images. Just copy this URL – chrome://chrome/settings/content and paste it in your address bar. In the content settings below Image selection Do not show images.
IN Exception Management, you can set a specific website or website to be blocked or allowed.
Disable Images and Videos with Chrome Extensions
There is no native support provided in Chrome for disabling video loading. You can achieve that through Chrome extensions for both images and videos, though.
Disable HTML5 Autoplay
HTML5 Video is the web standard for displaying video content on web pages. Disable HTML5 Autoplay is a Chrome extension that will stop automatically loading videos on websites that support HTML5 Videos. One thing to note, however, is that the video will continue to cache. This can be especially useful for YouTube. The video will not autoplay but will be buffered.
The extension is very easy to use. Click on it and select Turn off autoplay. You will have to reload your current page. It will show you the number media element And Autoplay count.
image block
Block Image is another simple Chrome extension to block images. Nothing much in it. You just need to click on it and it will disable images on the particular site. Or you can choose to keep it on. It’s much better than the manual method I showed above.
Stop automatically downloading images and videos in Firefox
Disable images manually
Just like in Chrome, you also have configuration options to disable images in Firefox. Go About: config from the address bar and search permissions.default.image. Now double click on the option and change the integer value to 2 and press ALRIGHT. That’s it.
Disable Images and Videos with Plugin
Like Chrome, Firefox also has a lot of plugins to achieve our purpose. Speaking of turning off videos, there is a plugin that allows you to play videos only when you click on them.
StopTube HTML5
The StopTube HTML5 plugin intercepts all HTML5 videos and allows you to play it when you click on it. It’s very handy and user-friendly experience as I said before. Also, it doesn’t buffer the video.
Image block
The image blocking plugin works just like it does on Chrome. You click that and all web pages will not show the image. You click again, and it will reverse the process.
Play on right click is an inbuilt feature
Popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox should have these features available. Because, not everyone wants to load videos or images when the website loads. Especially in the case of videos. Let us know what you think in our forum.
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