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Pause all HTML5 videos on load

Pause autoplaying HTML5 videos on load. In Firefox just go into about:config and look for media.autoplay.enabled and set to false.

  1. // ==UserScript==
  2. // @name         Pause all HTML5 videos on load
  3. // @author       Scuzzball
  4. // @namespace    http://userscripts.org/users/Scuzzball
  5. // @description  Pause autoplaying HTML5 videos on load. In Firefox just go into about:config and look for media.autoplay.enabled and set to false.
  6. // @version      1
  7. // @include      *
  8. // ==/UserScript==
  9.  
  10. var videos = document.getElementsByTagName('video');
  11. window.addEventListener('load', stopVideo, false);
  12. function stopVideo()
  13. {
  14.     for (var i=0; i<videos.length; i++)
  15.     {
  16.         videos[i].pause();
  17.         video.currentTime = 0;
  18.     }
  19. }