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How to make Firefox and Chromium play video in tab instead of downloading?
I am wondering is there special plugin needed? For chrome it is fine as the video immediately play inside the tab (streaming) instead of asking me to download it.
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Videos sometimes look striped in Chrome
My laptop has i5-7200U cpu and AMD Radeon R7 M440 gpu. Sometimes when I try to play videos in Chrome, it looks like this:
I do not have this issue in firefox.
I checked the codec on the youtube video ...
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How to get youtube like timed-bookmark effect on local mp4 files?
Youtube or most other video sharing site take a URL parameter that specifies the time in mm:ss format from start of video, from where playback should start if the link is clicked ? Preferably ...
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Can a browser modified or create extension to give option to save playing videos?
Nowadays, most sites encrypt or use DRM for playing videos. But browser can not play the file directly, it must be decrypted. Whatever the process is, ultimately browser need an actual playable video ...
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Use Flash Player after 12 Jan 2021
I would like to use Flash Player to show web contents but since today (12 Jan 2021) Adobe is blocking it.
Is there a way to use it?
I've tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Brave browsers.
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Youtube videos play, not BBC, in Firefox. Chrome OK
Ubuntu 10.10, 32 bit. Firefox 3.6.14
Why don't BBC videos play in Firefox if Youtube has no problem? Moreover videos play fine in Chrome. Another strange thing: there seem to be two flash plugins in ...
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How can I disable HTML5 content in popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome?
The bad thing about Flash video was that it required a third-party plugin to play the content. The good thing was I could select which content to play; using the click-to-play feature in Firefox and ...
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Is there a quality difference between YouTube videos on Chrome vs. Firefox?
YouTube videos played back in Chrome seem not as sharp as compared to Firefox (on Windows XP).
Is this just my imagination or is there a technical reason for this?
It seems like Firefox spawns a ...
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Setting for Chrome/Firefox/etc to auto-block video/audio
We've all seen the browser features that ask permission to use flash, display notifications, popups, etc.
In some cases, there's not even a popup - just an icon is shown and you have to manually go ...
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Does chrome load videos in a different way than firefox?
When trying to load videos onto a Three.js texture, I noticed that the Chrome is loading a video in ~2Mb chunks and playing the video once the chunk loads.
I am comparing this with firefox where a ...
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Cannot play (most of) Brightcove player videos
I cannot play any documentary from Aljazeera website (for example, this one. All of these are embedded in a Brightcove player (I can play the live stream though, which is also in Brightcove).
I have ...
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Disable autoplay of BBC videos [closed]
In the UK the BBC News website (and many others of course) have dropped Flash and use HTML5 to play videos. Unfortunately they also use a continuous-play plugin which can not be disabled, only turned ...
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YouTube speed increase only works in Firefox, not on Chrome or Opera
I recently started to watch some videos, and I want to watch them at 1.25x speed or 1.5x speed.
When I try this on Chrome or Opera the video lags, freezes and it is impossible to watch. But on ...
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How to stop onload play html5 video on websites?
Anyone know how stop automatic play on page load unwanted html5 videos?
This is importnant for me because I use limited bandwith transfer, and that unwanted media eat my amount of limited transfer.
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Why does Firefox 33 present a YouTube source URL while newer browsers such as Firefox 44 and Chrome do not?
Firefox 33 allows downloading of YouTube videos by simply right clicking Save As. Moreover, upon inspect element, it reveals the source where the file is hosted (Googlevideo, etc.). It is right there ...
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