On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. > > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer > versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube > html5 firefox" I find that "Google will enforce the use of HTML5 > video on YouTube for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer", > "FYI: Firefox 35 uses the HTML5 video player in Youtube by default" > and "Firefox 37 Released With Native HTML5 YouTube Playback"
I've picked up a few tricks that seem to work some of the time. This is with Seamonkey, but should work with standard Firefox... 1) Set up a separate profile for Youtube, and disable the Flash plugin only for that profile (never thought I'd say that). 2) If a video won't play, remove "&hd=1" at the end of the URL. That sometimes helps. 3) Warning... bleeding edge & crash-prone. In about:config toggle media.mediasource.enabled to "true". -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
