So Firefox 87 Beta completely broke html5 video

[whatisthemoztricks]

Don't suppose anybody knows of a workaround?

[Snake4]

yeah, try a New Profile, or tell us what other troubleshooting you have done, if any

[whatisthemoztricks]

Well there's not really any troubleshooting to do. I already tried a new profile, and going back to firefox86 restores the functionality. The bug is already listed on the bugzilla. I was just wondering if anyone who is aware of the bug knew if there is anything I could do to fix it. For elements that are handled better, like on Youtube or most video sites, it works fine. The major point of failure is adult material. Some of the most popular adult material sites use the bad way. It makes it very difficult to consume my daily 80TB of videogame parody adult material.

Go here

https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html

For me the video elements fail. Do they work for you on 87+?

[malliz]

Works for me on this test page
https://tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page

[whatisthemoztricks]

Works for me on this test page
https://tekeye.uk/html/html5-video-test-page

Yep, that one works for me too.

[Fanolian]

https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
For me the video elements fail. Do they work for you on 87+?

The videos linked in the page are not present in the server (404 not found).
It does not work on any browsers, at all.

The bug is already listed on the bugzilla.

Care to share the bug number?

[whatisthemoztricks]

https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
For me the video elements fail. Do they work for you on 87+?

The videos linked in the page are not present in the server (404 not found).
It does not work on any browsers, at all.

The bug is already listed on the bugzilla.

Care to share the bug number?

The players for them load on browsers which aren't broken. I'd share better links, but I can't.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693379

[Snake4]

porn sites?

[Fanolian]

The players for them load on browsers which aren't broken. I'd share better links, but I can't.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693379

The bug you quoted is about valid videos not showing in a flash fallback. If the sites you visit use flash, you may add them to the bug report to raise awareness.
https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html shows some cases where the controls are not shown when native videos are missing, which is a different issue.

Do you want something like the 2nd video in this pic? (4th is a valid video for comparison.)

[whatisthemoztricks]

The players for them load on browsers which aren't broken. I'd share better links, but I can't.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1693379

The bug you quoted is about valid videos not showing in a flash fallback. If the sites you visit use flash, you may add them to the bug report to raise awareness.
https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html shows some cases where the controls are not shown when native videos are missing, which is a different issue.

Do you want something like the 2nd video in this pic? (4th is a valid video for comparison.)

Yes it does seem to have something to do with specific fallback scenarios in the context of the Flash schemes of previous years. I guess that's why it breaks on some sites but doesn't break on more.

But to your examples though, yes, the 2nd example is closer to what I see on other browsers, but without the text and icon. However it seems like that's just what a broken video link looks like in Firefox. So, sorry for that. I tested that page in Edge and Falkon and the player controls will load just without a video. So I thought the page was triggering the Firefox bug and the broken link was not related. But in response to your post, I checked out the page in Firefox 86 (which doesn't have the family friendly bug), and it looks the exact same as 87. So that's just what that looks like in Firefox. Again, sorry for the confusion.

But in this case that's still just a broken link then. In the actual valid case, the videos are not broken links, but they still look exactly like your examples 1 and 3. It still works if you can put it in Reader mode in Firefox 87, but otherwise doesn't.

[whatisthemoztricks]

So an update, they (or the webmasters) have done some work on this because only one of the sites that didn't work still remains non-functional.

I consider this thread something of an eyesore so if a mod wants to get rid of it you have no arguments from me.