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		pswenson on May 26, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat sadly and inexplicably, youtube still uses flash for video on the desktop...

kuboa on May 26, 2015 | [–]

They had HTML5 video as a beta option for quite a while, and actually dropped Flash in favor of it as the default player about 4 months ago: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flas...

the8472 on May 26, 2015 | [–]

check https://www.youtube.com/html5

I get full <video> playback capability in FF nightly on windows and linux

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