Youtube/Firefox Foulup??

[Ric Moore]

On 01/21/2012 07:15 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 20 January 2012 19:23, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>> So does this mean if you have flash enabled you can't watch H.264?
>
> To be honest, I am not sure. I found out about this trick via a tip
> for PowerPC Mac users - Adobe Flash is no longer supported for PowerPC
> Macs, so users of the back-ported Firefox (TenFourFox) can't use Flash
> so can't watch YouTube. This H.264 thing is a work-around.
>
> More info here:
> http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
>
>> I don't watch that many Youtube videos but have never had a problem there.
>> I'm curious because I have had the OP's problem on other sites. Yahoo and
>> ABC News come to mind.
>
> I don't know about those 2 in specific, but I have met quite a few
> video-embedding sites which seem just not to work on Linux. It is
> getting rarer but it is not unheard-of, even now.

PBS was always tricky to use, until I removed all the "blocker" types of 
addons. Now, I can view "Frontline" videos without a hitch. Ric