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Vine videos aren't working in Firefox

BettieJander
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Hi,

I can't play vines in firefox. I've tried everything suggested here, but still isn't working.

Any suggestions? :(

Hi, I can't play vines in firefox. I've tried everything suggested here, but still isn't working. Any suggestions? :(

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Jordan Delgado
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  1. about:config > I'll be careful, I promise!
  2. Search: media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
  3. Change value to false
  4. Refresh Vine and voilà

Modified by Jordan Delgado

cor-el
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media.windows-media-foundation.enabled is for Vista and later. The OP is using Windows XP, so needs to look at media.directshow.enabled

See also this thread:

BettieJander
BettieJander Question owner
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Jordan Delgado said

  1. about:config > I'll be careful, I promise!
  2. Search: media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
  3. Change value to false
  4. Refresh Vine and voilà

I tried it, but nothing happened.

cor-el said

media.windows-media-foundation.enabled is for Vista and later. The OP is using Windows XP, so needs to look at media.directshow.enabled See also this thread:

What should be the value there?

cor-el
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If you want to disable the HTML5 media player and make the website possibly fallback to Flash then you need to set the pref to false.

  • media.directshow.enabled = false

Note that this will prevent Firefox from using the HTML5 media player to play MP3 files.

BettieJander
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It doesn't work either.

I tried Google Chrome and it worked just fine. :/ Well, it's not important, really, I don't use it very much, but... And I've seen it's a common problem amongst Firefox users...

Thank you for your anwers, anyway :)