How to Force BBC News to Play HTML5 Videos

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Tutorial how to get BBC News to Play HTML5 Videos instead of using Adobe Flash on a desktop computer with Firefox web browser.
Note: This will break iPlayer.

I have found you can use this Android User Agent trick on some other Websites that use Flash videos, or even Flash based security authentication.


Addons Required:
UAControl https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uacontrol/?src=userprofile
User-Agent JS Fixer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-js-fixer/

Custom User-Agent String:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.4; Nexus 7 Build/KTU84P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.117 Safari/537.36



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