# Stopping videos from embedding themselves in my browser

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 6, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939 "2004-06-06T10:47:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939/1 "2004-06-06T10:47:43Z")

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I used to have Win98, and when I clicked on a direct link in a webpage to a video, it would come up with a dialog box that asked “do you want to save this file, or play it in your media player?” or something along those lines.

Now I have WinXP, and it is no longer doing this. Instead it loads the video, with no visual indication it’s doing so, until it is fully downloaded, then it creates a page with Quicktime embedded in it and plays the video on that.

XP Home  
IE6  
Media Player Classic (my player of choice)

I have checked all file associations, and they are definitely correct (when I doubleclick a file in Windows it plays in the correct media player).

The multimedia settings in IE6 are to play everything in webpages except videos (but I’ve not noticed that that setting has ever made a difference).

None of the media players have any settings that affect this, as far as I can see.

I know I can right-click and save to disk, which works fine, but sometimes I don’t want to save to disk - sometimes I just want it to play/stream/load, just not embedded in a new browser webpage, and not in Quicktime.

Help?

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939/2 "2004-06-06T11:43:54Z")

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Open the Quicktime player, click **Edit/Preferences/Player Preferences** , and uncheck “Automatically play movies when opened”. Then open **Edit/Preferences Quicktime Preferences** , select “File Type Associations” and uncheck “Windows type files” and “Internet type files”; leave “Macintosh type files” checked.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2004, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939/3 "2004-06-06T12:11:18Z")

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Thamks for the suggestions, but they’re already set like that.

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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stopping-videos-from-embedding-themselves-in-my-browser/248939/4 "2004-06-07T20:03:02Z")

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something to try while waiting for the techies to check in:

uncheck “enable install on demand (ie)”  
uncheck “enable install on demand (others)”  
uncheck “enable 3rd party browser extensions”

note that one of these will turn off things like the google toolbar for example.

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bump card - go directly to top of page, do not pass the stickies, do not feed the hamsters.