On my system (without Flash), Facebook is one of the last sites where I encounte...

cpncrunch · on July 13, 2015

They now have an html5 video player, which I think they just introduced a week ago. BBC is about the only site I've seen that requires flash video, but I'm sure they'll get with the program soon.

1ris · on July 13, 2015

So far I know NPR and Spiegel (german tabloid). All these sites work fine without flash if you set your useragent to that of a iDevice. Somebody implemented the switch between html video and flash in a foolish way.

TD-Linux · on July 13, 2015

I so far have not gotten Facebook to serve me the html5 video player, for whatever reason.

cpncrunch · on July 13, 2015

Stupid question perhaps, but have you disabled the flash plugin? It seems to work fine on latest Chrome.

TD-Linux · on July 13, 2015

I don't even have it on my system. I wonder if it's some sort of UA detection thing? I tried appearing as Chrome 41 on Windows 7, but no luck. (firefox nightly on linux user here, with h.264/aac support provided by gstreamer)

cpeterso · on July 13, 2015

I think that Facebook only serves HTML5 video to Windows 7+, so I'm not sure why your Chrome 41 on Windows 7 test didn't work.