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How to get Twitter gifs and short videos working on Firefox on Fedora
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How to get Twitter gifs and short videos working on Firefox on Fedora

Note: This is for Fedora 28, however the process should be similar for other recent Fedora versions as well.

  1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and check if all boxes are checked. If gifs or short videos don't work for you, you mostly do not have H.264 and MSE & H.264.

  2. There are a bunch of repositories you need to setup.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-vaapi gstreamer1-plugins-{good,good-extras,ugly} -y
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled fedora-cisco-openh264
sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 mozilla-openh264
sudo dnf install compat-ffmpeg28 # only for fedora 28
  1. Reopen your Firefox window and go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 again. All boxes should be checked and gifs should work fine! ✨
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