Closed Bug 1280171 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Prefer HTML5 always over Flash

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
47 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1277346

People

(Reporter: karana, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0 Build ID: 20160604131506 Steps to reproduce: I went to a website like http://video.golem.de/games/17294/e3-2016-los-angeles-tagesrueckblick-tag-3.html with the flash plugin enabled on a recent version of firefox. Actual results: The website loaded the video in a flashplayer. Expected results: The browser should have used the html5 version of the player because the site falls back to html5 if the flashplugin is set to disabled. Many websites only use HTML5 if they do not see the flashplugin active instead of only using flash if the browser is too old and can't use HTML5. I therefore ask Firefox to not expose flash capability to websites where we can see html5 standard for videos and sound being used already.
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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