701217 - Firefox 8 Beta keeps playing flash videos even if plugin is disabled (only youtube videos embeded on 3rd party websites and NOT youtube videos itself)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[User1314]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111102223350

Steps to reproduce:

I disabled the ShockWave flash 11.0.1.152 in Firefox 8 beta and as normal youtube didnt play video and plugincontainer.exe isnt listed in taskmngr. However I went on site with embeded youtube video and I clicked and after few re-trys (automatic, like some white icon bouncing in corners of video) it started playing!!!!! I tried to play same video on youtube.com and as "normal" it displayed 'Plugin Disabled' then overlay youtube info (that black screen).


Actual results:

They ask me what happened? Why do I act funny? I stay braindead like I got bitten by a rat monkey... wtf is purpose of this field anyway...


Expected results:

It shouldn't have played and even if it did play(like now) plugin-container.exe should be running but its not so is there some other thread able to play multimedia content in firefox.exe?

Comment 1

[therube]

You must have been running into "HTML5 Video".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2BQM0D01M&html5=True

Note the "html5" in the URL.
You may (?) be able to force all/some (?) youtube video's to use html5 by appending the "&html5"?

http://html5video.org/

Comment 2

[User1314]

Correct, it wasnt appending html5 to "Ext" view when I clicked yotube logo so It got me but now I saw it with firebug.