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youtube videos play with FP disabled

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arejfour
arejfour

Something odd happened today. I have FP disabled (never activate) but, yet on some videos on YouTube it will actually play them without prompting me activate FP. Most other videos will, correctly, tell me that FP needs to be activated. Could someone explain this to me. Thanks

Something odd happened today. I have FP disabled (never activate) but, yet on some videos on YouTube it will actually play them without prompting me activate FP. Most other videos will, correctly, tell me that FP needs to be activated. Could someone explain this to me. Thanks

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hello, firefox is able to play html5 videos natively without the need of any plugins: youtube.com/html5

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philipp
philipp
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hello, firefox is able to play html5 videos natively without the need of any plugins: youtube.com/html5

cor-el
cor-el
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If you want to disable the HTML5 media player then you can accomplish this by toggling these two media.*.enabled prefs to false on the about:config page

  • media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
  • media.directshow.enabled

Modified by cor-el

arejfour
arejfour Question owner

Thanks for the reply. As long as HTML is secure than I don't have to deal with FP crashing/freezing FF