Vimeo video can now be embeded in posts.

Great. Now we Firefox users can look forward to lots of posts with nothing but black boxes in them (including mclemore's post above):

Firefox 4 cannot play vimeo videos
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/796279

Vimeo broke playback on all versions of Firefox several months ago.
They have implemented a work-around for Firefox v3.6, but all other versions of Firefox (older or newer) do not work.
The problem has been reported numerous times, but Vimeo still have not fixed it.

http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:35399
http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:35904
http://vimeo.com/forums/topic:34227



It's a Vimeo problem (although they tried to blame it on Firefox).

Vimeo made a change to the web site about 3 months ago and it broke video playback for all versions of Firefox. Later (after many complaints from users) Vimeo finally got round to putting a fix in place, but the fix only works for Firefox v3.6. Vimeo video is still broken for all other versions of Firefox (including FF 4.x).

Firefox 4 works perfectly fine with video from ANY site other than Vimeo (e.g. YouTube, Daily Motion, SmugMug, etc.) it's only Vimeo where video doesn't work in FF4.

It's clearly a Vimeo problem, but they won't take the issue seriously and fix it. Maybe not enough people have complained to Vimeo.


Problem has persisted through all recent Firefox releases: 4.x, 5.x, and now 6.0. Seriously, screw Vimeo.

And the first person who tells me to switch to that godawful Google Chrome BS gets a punch in the nuts.
 
Um... never figured there would be any issues.

I read your post, except....

Vimeo offers both a 'Universal Player' and a 'Flash "Moogaloop" Player'.

http://vimeo.com/api/docs/player

I configured the pages for the 'Universal Player'.

I clicked on the first link in your post and the first comment talks about the Flash player, which we are not using...

I'm using Firefox 6 at the moment and it works fine for me.
 
You can try IE if you can't figure Chrome out. :)

Edit: BTW, it works fine in FF6 for me as well.
 
Uh... I've been a Firefox user and Vimeo user for years and this is the first I've heard of it not working...

Funny because I embed Vimeo videos on one of my websites and have never had a problem... ;)

Works fine for me with the latest FF6.
 
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