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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon simonlindholm

Support for Twitter

Open simonlindholm opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Twitter uses their own custom form of GIFVs rather than true gifs. The videos can be detected by class="animated-gif", but some custom code is probably also needed to play nice with twitter's play-when-scrolled-into-view UI.

(MP4 needs to be enabled, otherwise it falls back to Flash which is harder to control. As a note to self the prefs needed for this are media.gstreamer.enable-blacklist;false, media.fragmented-mp4.exposed;true, media.fragmented-mp4.gmp.enabled;true).

simonlindholm avatar Aug 28 '15 21:08 simonlindholm

http://simonsoftware.se/temp/toggle-gifs.xpi is an (unsigned, so will stop working soon :( ) XPI with the above commit. It's slightly buggy but might be useful still.

Solving this fully seems like relatively low priority, because it's quite a bit of work, not that much value in it, and fragile because of possible Twitter changes. I'll think more about what to do the next time I poke at this addon.

simonlindholm avatar Aug 28 '15 22:08 simonlindholm

That's why it's not working in tweetdeck I guess :( why did they do such a thing? :'(

Geobert avatar Apr 09 '16 15:04 Geobert