
The result is that you can select between the HTML5 video player and the Flash Player on YouTube.
#How to install html5 on firefox install#
Next, install all media codecs for the latest Chromium browser by installing the chromium-libs-media-freeworld package: rpm-ostree install chromium-libs-media-freeworld.
You should not run into (many) compatibility issues doing so, and you may want to keep the user agent registered permanently for the time being if you visit YouTube regularly. Install Chromium version from the official repositories: rpm-ostree install chromium. Press the Alt-key to display it and switch to the new user agent whenever you are visiting YouTube. You can switch to that user agent using the Tools menu.
Select New > New User Agent and enter FF31 as the description, and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1 WOW64 rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 as the user agent. Load about:addons and click on options next to User Agent Switcher. 6.Now,you will need to download the offline installer for firefox,downloading won't work. Press 'Set Compatible Registry' and 'Set UserAgent'. Download and install User Agent Switcher or a comparable add-on for the browser. 5.Launch the file.Go to the right,and press Firefox. One of the better ways to do so is to fake your user agent so that YouTube detects Firefox 31 when you connect to the site. If you notice that some videos won't play anymore because of the change, you may want to force YouTube to use the Flash Player instead. If videos play fine on YouTube you do not necessarily have to change anything. The text "is currently used when possible" suggests that the site will fall back to other playback options, Adobe Flash more or less, when videos cannot be played using HTML5. Open new file on Notepad or ++ or your favourite text editor and save as filename.html now you can open that in any browser installed on your PC.
HTML5 do NOT need to be installed on PC to use it.
HTML5 player is useful when Adobe Flash is disabled by your company or school. CPU and RAM) and offers more resolution choices comparing to HTML5 Player. Note: I have no insight into how YouTube handles this. Answer (1 of 3): I really appreciate your interest towards HTML5. Flash player consumes less resources (i.e.