{"id":268,"date":"2014-12-05T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/?p=268"},"modified":"2024-11-25T21:40:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T21:40:16","slug":"where-can-i-enable-the-youtube-html5-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/browser-extension\/where-can-i-enable-the-youtube-html5-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Where can I enable the YouTube HTML5 player in 2 easy steps?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><div><div><a href=\"#introduction\">Introduction<\/a><\/div><div><a href=\"#update-you-tube-html-5-player\">Update YouTube HTML5 player<\/a><div><div><a href=\"#html-5-supported-browsers\">HTML5 Supported Browsers<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"introduction\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The easy instruction steps explain to you on how to enable the YouTube HTML5 player. You can enable the HTML5 player by following the steps here below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open the YouTube HTML5 website:<br><a class=\"rank-math-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/html5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/html5<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And click on the button <strong>Enable HTML5<\/strong>, that is all<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next time you open a YouTube video, it shows automatically the video in the HTML5 video player from YouTube. Now&nbsp;you are no longer dependent on the Adobe Flash plug-in, that said every month to download and update this to the new Flash version. Also an important note, in the year 2020 Adobe Flash plug-in will be discontinued because of performance and security reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-1024x608.png\" alt=\"Youtube HTML5 player in supported web browsers\" class=\"wp-image-5444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-1536x912.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-2048x1215.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-60x36.png 60w, https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/youtube-html5-video-player-supported-web-browsers-150x89.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">YouTube HTML5 player in supported web browsers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"update-you-tube-html-5-player\">Update YouTube HTML5 player<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTube recently announced in January 2015 that they will show default the HTML5 version of his YouTuber to all users. This for Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge web browser. From this date on your YouTube HTML5 video player will be better than the previous player. It buffers fast your favorite video and not a glitch or obstruction between each frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"html-5-supported-browsers\">HTML5 Supported Browsers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many browsers support both the video element in HTML5 and either the H.264 video codec or the <a href=\"http:\/\/webmproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WebM<\/a> format. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list bulleted\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Google Chrome<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Microsoft Edge<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Firefox<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/browser\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Opera<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Apple Safari<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of the year 2015, you can not disable the YouTube HTML5 player. Because the HTML5 video is part of the web rendering and does not use a plugin, extension, or NPAPI to detect this element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you still have an issue or question about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turnoffthelights.com\/browser\/\">Turn Off the Lights browser extension<\/a> that is available for Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox, Maxthon, Yandex, and Microsoft Edge. Do not hesitate to contact us from the &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; hyperlink here on the right sidebar. From that page, you can contact us directly with your own email. And will try to answer your question or feedback as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction The easy instruction steps explain to you on how to enable the YouTube HTML5 player. You can enable the HTML5 player by following the steps here below: The next time you open a YouTube video, it shows automatically the video in the HTML5 video player from YouTube. 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