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Firefox 40 Defaults to HTML5 Player on Linux, but There's No 1080p

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Mozilla released Firefox 40.0 yesterday, and it brought a lot of new interesting features for Linux, including a few that haven't been publicized all that much. One of them is defaulting to the HTML5 video player in YouTube.

Mozilla was one of the companies that boycotted the use of Flash player and added a warning in the previous version of Firefox. You could still use the Flash player, but after you accepted the fact that it poses a security risk. Since then, a lot of other online services have announced that they are dropping support for the Flash player, and it looks like it's finally going away.

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