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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote |
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> > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. |
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> > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer |
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> > versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube |
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> > html5 firefox" I find that "Google will enforce the use of HTML5 |
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> > video on YouTube for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer", |
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> > "FYI: Firefox 35 uses the HTML5 video player in Youtube by default" |
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> > and "Firefox 37 Released With Native HTML5 YouTube Playback" |
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> I've picked up a few tricks that seem to work some of the time. This |
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> is with Seamonkey, but should work with standard Firefox... |
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> 1) Set up a separate profile for Youtube, and disable the Flash plugin |
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> only for that profile (never thought I'd say that). |
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> 2) If a video won't play, remove "&hd=1" at the end of the URL. That |
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> sometimes helps. |
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> 3) Warning... bleeding edge & crash-prone. In about:config toggle |
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> media.mediasource.enabled to "true". |
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I think this is the default. Also, I have had several occasions where |
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the profile somehow got corrupted and the video would not play, I had to |
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create a new profile and then it worked. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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