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Disable autoplaying videos in Chrome and Firefox

Chrome Open Chrome > Settings > Advanced > Privacy|Content Settings > Plug-Ins | Click To Play . OR In your address bar, copy and paste - chrome://chrome/settings/content . Scroll down until you reach the Plug-ins listing there. Here you need to switch from Run automatically to Click to play . Firefox Open FireFox. Type about:config into the address bar and hit Enter. If you receive a warning about modifying settings, click the I'll be careful, I promise button to proceed. In the search bar that appears at the top of the page, enter plugins.click_to_play . The configuration setting should appear on a single line. Right-click the configuration setting and select Toggle. The value column should change from false to true . Restart Firefox. Opera Go to Settings (Alt+P) page and search for " plug-ins ". From there select Click to play .

Automatically download subtitles using VLC

Latest version of VLC has a feature to download subtitles automatically using the file name or hash. It saves you the trouble to go through manually downloading the subtitle. It uses addon VLSub which requires VLC version 2.2 To use this feature click on View tab and select Download Subtitles . It will open VLSub addon with options to search for subtitles by file hash or file name. Choose either option and it will search opensubtitles.or g for subtitles. Choose your subtitle of choice depending on your file and clicking Download selection . It will download and save the subtitle in your current working directory. The default language is English but you can change it to other languages as well from the Show Config window.