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Firefox and html5

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anuswara
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Hi, how to do (without installing addons) to let Firefox opening YT videos with the "old" flash player, instead of html5, as default setting? there are some keys in about:config or it is compulsory to accept html5 with firefox?

because I dont appreciate that html5, after 11 years developing, is still unable to support GPU acceleration (on a machine capable up to 4K at 30p via dxva2).

thanks. regards,

Hi, how to do (without installing addons) to let Firefox opening YT videos with the "old" flash player, instead of html5, as default setting? there are some keys in about:config or it is compulsory to accept html5 with firefox? because I dont appreciate that html5, after 11 years developing, is still unable to support GPU acceleration (on a machine capable up to 4K at 30p via dxva2). thanks. regards,

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anuswara
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A solution maybe: let block googlevideo.com with noscript, and the video starts with flash, as in the past. good. but I have to wait 15 seconds for the switching process html5 to flash.. if there is a more efficient way, welcome.

cor-el
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This extension allows to switch between the Flash player and the HTML5 media player on the YouTube website. YouTube Flash Video Player: