As you know when a YouTube link is clicked it takes you to the video page and starts playing it, which is of course fine if you have a fast connection, if not it will get stuck until it gets buffered. This method shows you how to stop the video from being played automatically so it will buffer the video only. This is also convenient for people who open multiple videos on YouTube at once as well as you don’t have to pause each and every video manually. Greasemonkey should be installed on Firefox for this to work.
How to install the script:
First of all if you don’t have greasemonkey, install it and restart Firefox.
Go to this page http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38553 and click on the install button.
Click install in the Greasemonkey script install prompt.
Now videos in youtube will not get played automatically.
Thanks, will try out today. I’m exactly the kind of user who opens lotsa videos at once.