How to Enable Click To Play Plugins in Google Chrome

howtogeek.com · October 15, 2012

Have you ever opened a webpage only to have all sorts of multimedia on the page just start playing? Chrome has a hidden setting that was designed to prevent situations just like that. Read on to find out how to enable it.

Enabling Click To Play Plugins in Chrome

Click on the settings wrench and select the settings menu item.

Scroll down until you can see the privacy section, then click on the Content settings button.

A new Window will pop-up, scroll down until you see the Plug-ins section. Then change the plug-ins option from Run all plugin content to “Let me choose when to run plugin content”.

Now navigate to any website that requires a plugin, like YouTube, and you will have to click on the content to activate the plug-in.

That’s all there is to it.

howtogeek.com · October 15, 2012