How do I prevent flash videos from automatically playing?

Whenever I open a new link to youtube, collegehumor, various tv websites, etc. firefox always automatically starts playing the video even before i even look at that tab. Sometimes when firefox freezes I have a few video tabs open and when it starts back up, a few videos start playing at once.
Is there a way to turn this off? I'd like to manually control when these videos play.
== URL of affected sites ==
http://youtube.com

Using [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 Flashblock] solves that.

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