A way to view HTML5 videos from Firefox
I discovered for myself a method that allows you to view videos on YouTube and Vimeo encoded in H.264 via HTML5 directly from Firefox (only under Windows).
In principle, this way you can view videos not only on YouTube and Vimeo, but anywhere else.
I hasten to share this recipe with you, maybe someone else has not figured this out, although everything seems very simple and logical.
The essence of the problem: Fx and IE do not support H.264 codec in HTML5, and the most popular video hosts (YouTube and Vimeo) use it. But this codec supports Google Chrome (actually, not surprising, because Google is the owner of YouTube)
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Solution: Coral IE Tab allows you to use IE engine directly in Firefox tabs, and Google Chrome Frame allows you to practically turn IE into Google Chrome, and it will show us the video in H.264 through the <video video> tag described in HTML5.
So immediately to the point, here is what needs to be done:
1. Install Firefox or Minefield.
2. Install for it the addition of Coral IE Tab .
3. Install the add-on for IE - Google Chrome Frame .
After you install all of the above, you just have to
4. In the Coral IE Tab settings, add a match for YouTube, Vimeo, etc., so that they open immediately using the IE engine.
5. In about: config set html5.enable to true
6. On YouTube, you need to manually enable HTML5 beta mode by clicking on the link “Join HTML5 beta” on this page.
In principle, this way you can view videos not only on YouTube and Vimeo, but anywhere else.
I hasten to share this recipe with you, maybe someone else has not figured this out, although everything seems very simple and logical.
The essence of the problem: Fx and IE do not support H.264 codec in HTML5, and the most popular video hosts (YouTube and Vimeo) use it. But this codec supports Google Chrome (actually, not surprising, because Google is the owner of YouTube)
')
Solution: Coral IE Tab allows you to use IE engine directly in Firefox tabs, and Google Chrome Frame allows you to practically turn IE into Google Chrome, and it will show us the video in H.264 through the <video video> tag described in HTML5.
So immediately to the point, here is what needs to be done:
1. Install Firefox or Minefield.
2. Install for it the addition of Coral IE Tab .
3. Install the add-on for IE - Google Chrome Frame .
After you install all of the above, you just have to
4. In the Coral IE Tab settings, add a match for YouTube, Vimeo, etc., so that they open immediately using the IE engine.
5. In about: config set html5.enable to true
6. On YouTube, you need to manually enable HTML5 beta mode by clicking on the link “Join HTML5 beta” on this page.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/87413/
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