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by Tloewald 4252 days ago
Firefox's hopeless video and audio implementation (especially on Mac OS X) remains a deal breaker for me. It means resorting to Flash in a lot of cases, which means I use another browser.

I'm glad to see strides being made in JavaScript performance, but basic browser functionality is far more important.
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dbcooper 4252 days ago
Media Source Extensions are a high priority right now, so problems with html5 video (esp. with youtube) should be solved soon.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778617

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1083588

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kevingadd 4251 days ago
HTML5 video and audio in Firefox works perfectly in every site I visit. What problems do you hit? I haven't used it on Mac so perhaps the support is less good there.

Some sites don't attempt to use <video>/<audio> in Firefox for me, but that's a site issue, not a browser issue - h264 and webm both work fine.

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dbcooper 4251 days ago
There are a few google related ones in Karl Dubost's list:

http://www.otsukare.info/2014/10/28/google-webcompatibility-...

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Tloewald 4251 days ago
MP4 video support is completely absent on Mac. And MP3 audio is also not supported.
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