Mozilla Firefox 37.0 Officially Released with Native HTML5 YouTube Playback, Firefox 40 Pushed to Nightly Channel | Linux Today

Mozilla Firefox 37.0 Officially Released with Native HTML5 YouTube Playback, Firefox 40 Pushed to Nightly Channel

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Marius Nestor
Mar 31, 2015

It appears the infamous subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API has been finally implemented to allow native HTML5 video playback on the YouTube website. However, please note that Mac and Linux OSes support only 720p, at the moment.

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Marius Nestor

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