# Flash Video Player for Facebook™

> Flash Video Player for Facebook™ is a powerful tool that will let you choose Flash video player as default Facebook video player.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-flash-video-player](https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-flash-video-player)

## Overview

- **ID:** `facebook-flash-video-player`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Baris Derin
- **Category:** photos-music-videos,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 3,471
- **Weekly downloads:** 11
- **Rating:** 4.01 / 5 (116 ratings)
- **Version:** 64.1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-01-19
- **Size:** 72 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/facebook-flash-video-player/)

## Description

**Flash® Video Player for Facebook™** allows users to set the Flash video player as the default for watching Facebook™ videos, enabling automatic playback with higher resolution (HD) options compared to the HTML5 player. Users can also switch back to the HTML5 player from the extension's settings if preferred.

This extension supports Firefox's MultiProcess Electrolysis feature and serves as a handy tool for Facebook™ video enthusiasts seeking improved video quality and playback options. Please note, this tool is not officially affiliated with Facebook™ or Adobe Inc.

## Rankings

- #1,505 — Overall
- #163 — Social & Communication
- #255 — Photos, Music & Videos
- #6 — flash player
- #8 — video player
- #9 — facebook

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `management`
- `activeTab`
- `downloads`
- `contextMenus`
- `<all_urls>`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`
- `cookies`

### Content script matches

- `*.facebook.com`
- `*.barisderin.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users report that the Flash Video Player for Facebook™ add-on helps improve video playback and game functionality on Facebook for some games, which would otherwise have blacked out videos. However, its performance is inconsistent and only partially effective, as many games still fail to work with this add-on. While some appreciate the partial success, several users point out that it doesn't work reliably across all content, limiting its overall usefulness.

### Pros

- Helps run/play some Facebook games that otherwise have blacked out videos.
- Provides partial functionality where many games do not work at all.
- Improves video playback compared to no functionality.

### Cons

- Does not work consistently across all Facebook games.
- Some games still won't run with either HTML5 or Flash video player on Firefox.
- Limited effectiveness, only helps a subset of games out of many tested.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/facebook-flash-video-player)