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YouTube uses flash if it thinks you have flash. Otherwise if no flash installed or plugin disabled it defaults to HTML5 (Firefox on GNU/Linux and Mac)
by JupiterMoon 11y ago
YouTube uses flash if it thinks you have flash. Otherwise if no flash installed or plugin disabled it defaults to HTML5 (Firefox on GNU/Linux and Mac)
- a3n 11y agoI use flash blocker specifically for youtube, so that it doesn't start playing when I queue up a tab. When I get to the tab I enable flash for that player. Gonna be annoying when that doesn't work. Not that I don't want flash to disappear.
- coldpie 11y agoFirefox provides the "media.autoplay.enabled" setting to turn off autoplaying HTML5 media. Beware, it is slightly "buggy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135004
- cpeterso 11y agoFor Firefox users, YouTube is supposed to prefer HTML5 video if an H.264 platform decoder is available and then fall back to Flash. YouTube should be serving HTML5 video to OS X, Windows Vista+ (except for some variants without codecs like Windows Server 2008), and Linux (if ffmpeg is available).
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI think when this came up a few months ago someone checked and found it was a bug -- it may have been fixed by now but I haven't checked recently since I don't have flash in ff anymore.