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When a video is playing on youtube my screen saver on my desktop cuts in and I cannot view the youtube video because of my screen saver coming on. It is a rolling one that has different pictures and it interferes with youtube.

When a video is playing on youtube my screen saver on my desktop cuts in and I cannot view the youtube video because of my screen saver coming on. It is a rolling one that has different pictures and it interferes with youtube.

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I'm not sure what changed in Firefox 40 that is triggering YouTube to serve Windows XP users an HTML5 player when it previously served the Flash player. ??

Anyway, a possible workaround is to use one of these extensions to force YouTube to serve the Flash player:

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Hi sandraelden, please refer to the same issue I posted the other day, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1077405 and select "I have this problem, too" so as to raise awareness for this problem. Thank you.

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I'm not sure what changed in Firefox 40 that is triggering YouTube to serve Windows XP users an HTML5 player when it previously served the Flash player. ??

Anyway, a possible workaround is to use one of these extensions to force YouTube to serve the Flash player: