Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

By Andrea at 11/26/2009 - 11:37

Hi,

recently Firefox has become capable of playing video directly without plugins.
It's the big HTML5 + <video> saga.

I'm running Fedora 11 super up to date and I have to say that this things works a bit but not very well.

Take for instance the home page of firefox and click bottom left

<a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/" title="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/">http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/</a>

It's a good example of what does not work.

If I pause the video there is no way of starting again.

And the same for all other HTML5 videos I've seen.

Has anybody tried <a href="http://www.youtube.com/html5" title="http://www.youtube.com/html5">http://www.youtube.com/html5</a>, this is even worse as it does not work even without
pressing pause.

7 comments

Works fine for me.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5

Ditto. Does not start.

I've got the same exact version, but as soon as I press pause, nothing works anymore...

Maybe you have an extension loaded that's causing a conflict.

2009/11/26 brian < ... at logi dot ca>:

Having now tried this on two up to date F11 x86_64 systems I've found
that the same pause problem happens there (after cleaning my
~/.mozilla directory and disabling any system-wide plugins that
remained). This leaves me wondering whether Andrea is using 64bit or
32bit Firefox.

Versions:
firefox-3.5.5-1.fc11.x86_64
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105
Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5

Think I'll file a bug once I get time...

32 bit for me.

post here the link please.

The first one works under 3.5.5 while second video not even
initializes.Compared to Google chrome released last week both are
running just great.
<a href="http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/" title="http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/">http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/</a>

2009/11/26 Andrea < ... at googlemail dot com>:

Not on a Fedora system right now, but the
<a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/" title="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/">http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/</a> example is working for
me on Firefox 3.5.5 on Slackware (pausing, backwards and forwards,
etc.), so that might be a Fedora-specific problem. The
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/html5" title="http://www.youtube.com/html5">http://www.youtube.com/html5</a> example does not work, right clicking on
it to 'save as' shows it is an mp4 file, which is probably not
supported without extra plugins. The failure to specify a basic codec
support for HTML5 was its major failing.

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