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my screen saver cuts in on youtube videos

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When a video is playing on youtube my screen saver on my desktop cuts in and I cannot view the youtube video because of my screen saver coming on. It is a rolling one that has different pictures and it interferes with youtube.

When a video is playing on youtube my screen saver on my desktop cuts in and I cannot view the youtube video because of my screen saver coming on. It is a rolling one that has different pictures and it interferes with youtube.

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I'm not sure what changed in Firefox 40 that is triggering YouTube to serve Windows XP users an HTML5 player when it previously served the Flash player. ??

Anyway, a possible workaround is to use one of these extensions to force YouTube to serve the Flash player:

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Hi sandraelden, please refer to the same issue I posted the other day, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1077405 and select "I have this problem, too" so as to raise awareness for this problem. Thank you.

தீர்வு தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்பட்டது

I'm not sure what changed in Firefox 40 that is triggering YouTube to serve Windows XP users an HTML5 player when it previously served the Flash player. ??

Anyway, a possible workaround is to use one of these extensions to force YouTube to serve the Flash player: