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Why is Firefox slow and incompatible with Youtube?

YetiManetti
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After reinstalling FF it seems very slow now. After trying to get Firefox to work with youtube for a year STILL no luck. Reading that Youtube needs H264 but I am not seeing that in the Firefox Applications. Why is this after reinstalling Firefox?

After reinstalling FF it seems very slow now. After trying to get Firefox to work with youtube for a year STILL no luck. Reading that Youtube needs H264 but I am not seeing that in the Firefox Applications. Why is this after reinstalling Firefox?

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James
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Are you really using Windows server 2003 ?

Microsoft only prvides media feature packs to Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10 but not WinXP and I guess server 2003.

You can see what you can support HTML5 player at say https://www.youtube.com/html5/ as all check marks should ideally be blue.

Not sure if this guide for WinXP will work for server 2003. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175591-enable-mp4-h264-aac-html5-video-in-firefox-on-windows-xp-without-flash/

YetiManetti
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I am using XP Pro 

What is in blue is :

HTMLVideoElement Media Source Extensions WebM VP8 MSE & WebM VP9\