Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> 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".
I think this is the default. Also, I have had several occasions where
the profile somehow got corrupted and the video would not play, I had to
create a new profile and then it worked.
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