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Question

How ro install html on Windows XP to play videos on Mozilla?

Mar 23, 2018 9:12AM PDT

I know my OS is old. But it works fine on my old computer. Recently I found that lots of sites with video, for example Youtube live stream, tend to use html5, my Mozilla refuses to play it, I wrote them and they said I have to install html5 support on WinXP. But how to install?? Someone advised Primetime html5 content decryption module. But it's not supported by Adobe anymore. So is there other way to make my Mozilla on Windows XP play html5 videos?

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You'll be shortchanged.
Mar 23, 2018 9:29AM PDT
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Rae: html5 on Windows XP
Mar 23, 2018 9:41AM PDT
https://msfn.org/board/topic/175591-enable-mp4-h264-aac-html5-video-in-firefox-on-windows-xp-without-flash/ makes me think you need an old unsupported version of Firefox (or Chfome) anyway. But then it might work. Or not. It's up to you to try.

But assuming you want to keep using XP on this PC, it's easier to use a (cheap) Android tablet to view the sites you can't see in XP anymore. If it has hdmi output, you can even see the video on your TV or HD monitor.
Or to boot into Linux on this old PC. Or add some RAM to it PC so you can install Linux in a virtual box and use that.
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I'm leaving the reservation....
Mar 23, 2018 9:49AM PDT

Last year I installed the ChromeOS on an old XP laptop. It was pretty nice to see almost every web site work compared to XP SP3.

This year I found I couldn't find the ChromeOS x86 or x64 and will try again after tax season but I did manage to find the Android x86/x64 project and that worked out well. Yes, there is Linux too but for some reason folk seem adverse to that so ChromeOS and Android on the PC gives us more options.