# YouTube use Flash Player

> Force YouTube to use Flash player over the HTML5 player

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-use-flash-player`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** James Fray
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos,other
- **Daily users:** 766
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.43 / 5 (172 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.3resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-08-13
- **Size:** 62 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-use-flash-player/)
- **Website:** [http://add0n.com/youtube-tools.html?from=flash](http://add0n.com/youtube-tools.html?from=flash)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-use-flash-player/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-use-flash-player/privacy/)

## Description

The "YouTube use Flash Player" browser extension allows users to force YouTube to use the Flash player rather than the default HTML5 player. This can improve performance on low-end devices where Flash performs better. The extension only requests Flash on YouTube's website itself, keeping embedded YouTube players on other sites to use HTML5 for lightweight operation. Users can watch embedded videos in Flash by opening them in a new tab. To activate the extension, simply refresh any open YouTube tabs after installation. This tool is part of a suite of YouTube utilities designed to enhance user experience, including options such as YouTube HD, no annotations, no autoplay, and ad blockers. Note that the FAQs for the extension use Google Analytics with linked terms for user privacy.

## Rankings

- #3,849 — Overall
- #7 — flash player
- #15 — flash
- #21 — player
- #23 — adobe flash
- #26 — usb

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** 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

### Cons

- Does not work on older versions of Firefox (e.g., 52.9.0)
- General statements indicating it doesn't work for multiple users

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