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Re: YouTube video plays in TB9 with ThunderBrowse but not in FF9

by Alan Beagley-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On 01/25/12 09:59 am, Alfredo Fernández Díaz wrote:

> Alan Beagley wrote:
>> On 01/24/12 06:23 pm, Peter Brown wrote:
> ...
>>> Try restarting playback ie pause and drag the indictaor back to the
>>> start then press play - seems to be a necessary step in Seamonkey 2.6
>>> with html5 vids.
>>
>> Ah, yes. I had forgotten about that trick.
>>
>> But it still won't play in FF9.0.1 at all: It says I need Flash.
>
> According to YouTube, SeaMonkey and FireFox/2 seem to opt out of the
> HTML5 trial for no reason at all. It's so frequent that most times I
> visit Youtube (not that many anyway) I stop at the trial page first to
> make sure it may work, since I try to live without Flash.

Something must be broken in FF9.0.1 because other YouTube videos that
I've played many times over with earlier versions of FF now will not
play. Yes, it does show that I am in the HTML5 trial. E.g.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQS6XQOhNh0

Alan

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