Hey, it turns out that FF is allowed into the Google YouTube HTML5 beta (finally). For the longest time, it was only Safari or Chrome since they were the only two browsers that supported HTML5.
Now, you can download a special version of Firefox with some extra plugins installed that will allow you to view the videos. Only the ones encoded with WebM (a Google property), though... not the industry standard h.264 versions.
Quote:
Supported Browsers
We support browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the h.264 video codec or the WebM format (with VP8 codec). These include:
* Firefox (WebM enabled version available here)
* Google Chrome (h.264 supported now, WebM enabled version available here)
* Opera (WebM enabled version available here)
* Apple Safari (h.264, version 4+)
* Microsoft Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)
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http://www.youtube.com/html5
Edit: Someone should really create a thread about h.264 vs WebM. I'm interested in figuring out why Google thinks we need a whole new video codec. How much of this is really just about not siding with Apple on something? At which point do the end-users themselves wind up paying the price for these companies not being able to work together on something? I'm not creating it, though. I don't have time to piss around with that kind of drama anymore.