How to disable video auto-play on MacRumors front page?

I opened MacRumors.com just now and a video about the new iSteve movie began to play. How do I prevent this from happening?

I am using Safari 6.0.3 on Mountain Lion 10.8.3. I tried it with all extensions turned off and it still happened. I do not have Flash installed. (If I need Flash I open Google Chrome which has a Flash player embedded within it.)

I've gone through all the all the Preference options and Menu options but cannot see what might be contributing to this behavior as I am certain it was not happening a day or two ago. I do have the Safari "Develop" menu turned on, but I have not selected any of the options.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Drew.

kryten2 said:

Try ClickToPlugin & ClickToFlash Safari extensions.

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Thanks for your help! I think I will submit a feedback request to Apple to add a new feature to Safari to disable HTML5 auto play if selected. This happens on quite a number of sites and I find it extremely annoying, to the extent that I no longer visit those sites.

barkmonster said:

You could switch to a more customisable browser. I use Firefox for just that reason.

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Thanks for your input. Safari is not perfect, but one thing I really like about it is that all my bookmarks and open tabs are available across my devices: MBA, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, via iCloud without me having to organize anything.

Cheers,
D.