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		cpeterso on Aug 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by defaul... For Firefox users, YouTube is supposed to prefer HTML5 video if an H.264 platform decoder is available and then fall back to Flash. YouTube should be serving HTML5 video to OS X, Windows Vista+ (except for some variants without codecs like Windows Server 2008), and Linux (if ffmpeg is available).

JupiterMoon on Aug 30, 2015 [–]

I think when this came up a few months ago someone checked and found it was a bug -- it may have been fixed by now but I haven't checked recently since I don't have flash in ff anymore.

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