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This is really annoying. Yesterday everything was working fine, now I wake up only to realize that all the videos on YouTube are using the HTML5 player.

Here is what I see when I try to play a video on YouTube: enter image description here

I tried what was suggested by the accepted answer in this question, but it didn't work, even after restarting Firefox.

Also I would like to note that YouTube works fine in Chrome (HTML5 player) and Internet Explorer (flash player).

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Check if the latest version of Flash is properly installed on your browser. If not, download the latest version and install it.

Then, install the YouTube Flash Player extension:

This add-on forces YouTube to play videos using Flash Player instead of the HTML5 player.

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  • this worked like a charm, thank you. Still kind of makes me wonder what went wrong with this HTML5 player,but I will accept your answer.
    – jsguy
    Apr 2, 2015 at 15:52
  • @jsguy Was the HTML5 player working in Firefox (for YouTube or other sites) before you encountered this issue? Apr 2, 2015 at 16:45
  • I am not sure, I never made a check since I was thinking that I was using flash all the time. The first time I heard the term "HTML5 player" was today.
    – jsguy
    Apr 2, 2015 at 17:25
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    This worked for me! When i installed firefox i nearly threw the laptop out of the window when youtube didn't work. So i just reinstalled latest version. WORKING :D
    – user531558
    May 30, 2016 at 11:48
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You can force YouTube to play a video with flash player by adding &nohtml5=1 or &nohtml5=True to the URL.

Found this after I had uploaded a video to YouTube and there was "&nohtml5=False" automatically added by any reason.

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    In May 2016, this suggestions does not work.
    – Criggie
    May 26, 2016 at 10:06
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    I can say that &nohtml5=1 works, but true does not. This is an answer and should be treaded like it @Criggie ... +1 from me
    – user531558
    May 30, 2016 at 19:18
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    I can confirm that &nohtml5=1 still works. +1, saved me a bit of frustration.
    – insaner
    Jan 23, 2017 at 5:58
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    This is may 2017 and the nohtml5=1 no longer works neither does nohtml5=true work May 18, 2017 at 22:48
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    I can confirm: nohtml5=1 does not work anymore. May 23, 2017 at 11:47
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Firefox has release MSE support for HTML5 playback. This uses the system hardware decoders unless the driver is blacklisted. Setting media.windows-media-foundation.use-dxva=false in about:config will use software decoding.

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