On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > > > Switching my FF user-agent to claim it was my tablet's chrome let > > these videos play fine. > > > > It appears that Apple's view is that page designers shouldn't be > > coding to require the plugin -- see bottom of: > > > > <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205081> > > > > so it's somewhat amusing that their site is doing just that. > > So, I followed that link and installed and set up the user agent > switcher, as described there, and now firefox 38.5.0 ESR plays > apple trailers! the other posts there indicated you also needed a > bug fix from mozilla, but they're also speaking of OSX, so I don't > know (nor have a lot of interest) if it's OSX specificially, or > just FF 4x or what, but it's working fine today for me on Centos 7.2. > > Also, I had no clue that apple served them up in anyform other than > quicktime. HTML-5 rocks! > Sweet, I didn't realize that either. I suppose if you were picky (and cared about your user-agent for browsing other than Apple's site), you could create another FF profile [0] which you use just for Apple and modify the UA for it and it only. ;-) [0] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Shortcut_to_a_specific_profile -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //