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Quite a few player embeds on the pages I visit still default to Flash, rather annoyingly. That's been my experience at least.


You're supposed to use an <iframe> to embed these days, but some sites still use the flash-only <object>/<embed>.


no-flash is a Firefox extension (written by a Mozilla employee) to rewrite Flash-only object embeds to use YouTube's HTML5 player:

https://github.com/hfiguiere/no-flash/

Mozilla may include this functionality in Firefox directly:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769117


Mobile Safari did this from very early on! (iPhone OS 2 or earlier) Though they didn't use YouTube's official HTML5 player.




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