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Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

Hi,

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

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/

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 http://www.youtube.com/html5, this is even worse as it does not work even without
pressing pause.

Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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.

  • By brian at 11/26/2009 - 12:53
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Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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

  • By Andrea at 11/26/2009 - 13:05
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Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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

  • By brian at 11/26/2009 - 14:19
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Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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...

Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

32 bit for me.

post here the link please.

  • By Andrea at 11/27/2009 - 12:50
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Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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.
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/

  • By Sawrub at 11/27/2009 - 12:37
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Re: Your experience of Firefox + HTML5

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

Not on a Fedora system right now, but the
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/video/ 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
http://www.youtube.com/html5 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.