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how can I set Firefox to launch native android YouTube app instead of opening link in YouTube mobile Site.

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in addition to flv links of YouTube videos, other sites with video links starts to download video instead to playing video inside browser or asking to open a native android app set to handle video files.

in addition to flv links of YouTube videos, other sites with video links starts to download video instead to playing video inside browser or asking to open a native android app set to handle video files.

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We've had some trouble with YouTube recognizing the Tablet version of Firefox for Android.

Your browser identifies as "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Tablet; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0" YouTube is looking for Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0

We are working on resolving this shortly by forcing Tablets to use the Mobile identifier for YouTube. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786623

Hopefully we can get this fix in your hands shortly.