[SOLVED] Can't select Youtube HTML5 page.

Higgsboson · 02-10-2015, 06:12 AM

I'm using a Debian distro with Iceweasel browser and Noscript add-on.
I don't have Adobe Flash, so every time I want to watch Youtube I go to the Youtube html5 page, select html5 player, and then I can watch the videos.

But just today, the html5 page is not accepting my selection for the html5 player.https://www.youtube.com/html5
The page just keeps reloading to the top.
I've looked to see if there are any Noscript blocks - but there aren't any.

Does anyone know why this problem has suddenly occurred? Thank you.

cepheus11 · 02-10-2015, 06:22 AM

Do you block cookies? This setting is saved in a cookie.

If you cannot solve the immediate problem - youtube defaults to HTML5 for recent browsers since some weeks ago. "Recent" means "Version 36" in case of firefox, iceweasel and co. You could trick youtube into thinking you have firefox 36 by overriding your user agent string: Edit or create a string value "general.useragent.override" in about:config with the following content:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0

Replace "x86_64" by "x86" if you have a 32bit system.

This will be global, for all sites. Recommended, but requires firefox addon: Do it site-specific, only for youtube, for example with the addon "UAControl".

There is no guarantee that youtube works correctly, because it might expect some modern functions from the browser it does not have, or behaves buggy.

Higgsboson · 02-10-2015, 06:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cepheus11

Do you block cookies? This setting is saved in a cookie.

If you cannot solve the immediate problem - youtube defaults to HTML5 for recent browsers since some weeks ago. "Recent" means "Version 36" in case of firefox, iceweasel and co. You could trick youtube into thinking you have firefox 36 by overriding your user agent string: Edit or create a string value "general.useragent.override" in about:config with the following content:

Code:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0

Replace "x86_64" by "x86" if you have a 32bit system.

This will be global, for all sites. Recommended, but requires firefox addon: Do it site-specific, only for youtube, for example with the addon "UAControl".

There is no guarantee that youtube works correctly, because it might expect some modern functions from the browser it does not have, or behaves buggy.

I had cookies blocked.
I allowed cookies on the browser Preferences and set Noscript to allow googlevideo - and it worked!
Thank you very much!