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When will Firefox for Windows 10 PC support Chromecast?

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Currently only Firefox seems to work on Windows 10 with the Now TV app, however there does not appear to be any support for Chromecast from Firefox so I am unable to use Chromecast. Anybody got a work around so that I can watch Now TV on my tv??

Currently only Firefox seems to work on Windows 10 with the Now TV app, however there does not appear to be any support for Chromecast from Firefox so I am unable to use Chromecast. Anybody got a work around so that I can watch Now TV on my tv??

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hi Splashm, you might want to try the following (haven't tested this myself): enter about:config into the firefox address bar (confirm the info message in case it shows up) & search for the preference named browser.casting.enabled. double-click it and change its value to true - then there might be a "send video to device" entry in the context menu,when you right-click on html5 videos. since the feature is behind a pref by default, it is in an experimental and probably buggy state still though...

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Thanks Phillip, but that does not appear to work. I made the changes recommended, closed Firefox and restarted. Opened Now TV and selected a movie, but there was no way to cast it to Chromecast, and no right click sub menu either. Thanks for the suggestion though.

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See also;

  • bug 1142521 - disable video/tab casting in Firefox 37 and later

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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

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Thanks Cor-el, Afraid I could not follow all the bug reports, but summarising it seems that casting causes an issue in Windows firewall with the casting pref. enabled. After I set it to true and restarted Firefox I did not get any form of firewall warning, just no option to cast the video. Is there a context menu that should be active? The only thing that appears with the right click option is the text "Silverlight"? If you click on this option / message, nothing appears to happen other than Firefox then hangs with a message that Firefox is waiting for Silverlight to respond, whichever option you take to this message Firefox has departed this world and ALT+ CTR+ DEL appears to be the only way out of the deadly embrace.

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On the basis that I still cannot use Firefox to cast to chromecast, I will ask the question again:

When will Firefox for Windows support Chromecast?