The future version of Youtube might not support Firefox
Recently, YouTube has opened its TestTube HTML 5 service to allow users to experiment with HTML 5 version of YouTube. Unfortunately, TestTube only uses H.264 codec to display the video which Firefox doesn’t support. H.264 is a non-free, licensed codec. In order to use the codec, video content publishers needs to pay $5 million license fee every year. Mozilla supports free and open solution. Its Ogg Theora codec is similar to H.264 codec. Not only its video quality is the same as H.264 (sometimes maybe better), but also it can easily convert to a large variety of video formats. According to “Will Idealism be Firefox’s Downfall?“, Google might use On2 codec on the future version of YouTube, which is better than H.264. If not, YouTube users will be switching to other web browsers that supports H.264 and Firefox will be history.
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What a lack of understanding!
Flash support is there to stay. So, IE, Firefox, Chromium and Opera users will still be able to enjoy youtube
Hello, nephersir7. Thank you for the comment. This blog is primarily used for improving my writing skill, and discuss about Linux news and other open source related news based on my opinion.
In response to your comment, I also think that Google will implement some sort of backward compatibility using HTML 5 standards and JavaScript.