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		shakna on June 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switc... Because generic support for H264 in Firefox came in Firefox 43, four years ago. If Firefox finds ffmpeg, it uses it.

carlsborg on June 3, 2019 [–]

True but it’s a poor experience getting it to work. It breaks every few upgrades, poorly documented and mainly in the the bugtracker, and is unofficial hack because it’s not a licensed decoder.

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