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How not to open YouTube videos in its app?

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Whenever I view a video page on YouTube, when I click the play icon, the YouTube app on my phone opens. How can I configure it to play directly in Firefox? I could only find questions about how to configure it the other way around...

Whenever I view a video page on YouTube, when I click the play icon, the YouTube app on my phone opens. How can I configure it to play directly in Firefox? I could only find questions about how to configure it the other way around...

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You would need to pretend to be desktop Firefox. You can do this by clicking on the menu button and selecting request desktop site.

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But surely there is also a way to view videos in the regular mobile site without using the app? (As in: I want the same behaviour in Firefox as there would be if I did not have the app installed.)

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No. If the YouTube app is not present the site will fail to work. The only known work around is to use the desktop YouTube site.

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It depends on your phone but on my galaxy I can go to the settings and set the default app to firefox or whatever other app is able to play a video. What device are you using?

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Thanks kbrosnan, I'm afraid that's that then.

@jjsalzano I'm using a Fairphone (Android 4.2), but I can find no such option in either YouTube's, Firefox's or the system settings.