PM on Freebsd wont play videos

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blind-sighted
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PM on Freebsd wont play videos

Post by blind-sighted » 2026-08-04, 11:18

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Hi all,

First post.

I have PM running on freebsd 14.4, version 34.1.0 64bit gtk2.

Did nothing to install except to unpack then double clicked palemoon with resulting directory to run - it seems to run fine apart from being unable to play online videos - thing is the version of firefox on freebsd does play online content = but firefox is bot the browser I use - I use PM on linux with no issues.

Does anyone know how to overcome the problem?

Many thanks in advance.

blind-sighted (because I am)

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Re: PM on Freebsd wont play videos

Post by andyprough » 2026-08-04, 13:11

First of all your Pale Moon version is out of date by five months, you should download and use the new version 34.3.2 from here: https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml

Secondly, you have to tell us which site you are trying to play videos from. Most of them like youtube and rumble are reported to work, but I know that odysee.com videos aren't playing right now without the fix in this thread: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=33489