Motioneye: Motioneye streaming not working on Firefox 75.0

Created on 10 Apr 2020 · 5Comments · Source: ccrisan/motioneye

Hi, I have just found out today, 10-04-20, that my motioneye viewing on raspian stretch was not working on two camera I use it on, when I tried to view the stream on Firefox. Thinking something had changed I updated raspian and updated motioneye to latest version. It made no difference. I then decided to use my phone. It worked ok on both cameras. One uses a webcam and other uses the raspberrypi camera. So I then realised it was probably firefox. I then used a laptop I hadn't used for a while and firefox worked ok. It was version 74.01. I let it update to version 75 and tried again. It then did not see the stream from motion eye. So latest firefox has broken the viewing capablity from moitoneye. I noticed a workaround for chrome and tried similar with firefox. That is: about:config and change the lazy-image flag to false. Guess what... it worked. So for now this workaround works.

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glyderman8

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Hey guys, you can get rid of the manual hack by upgrading MotionEye 0.41 or later. See #1428.

zagrim on 2 Jun 2020

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Hi, I have the same issue on firefox 75.0 straming not working, Straming working on other PC with firefox 73.0. By the way, everything is going well! Still images OK, motion detection OK, take a snapshot OK.
lazy-image flag to false not working for me...
Does anyone have a solution?

Rouzic6666 on 17 Apr 2020

@Rouzic6666 the full name of the flag is dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled. Setting that to false fixed this for me.

clnhlzmn on 18 Apr 2020

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@Rouzic6666 the full name of the flag is dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled. Setting that to false fixed this for me.

Gosh... thanks! I had searched some time how to fix this. It was really annoying that it worked fine in waterfox, but did not in firefox. I couldn't figure out the difference and would never have thought of something like this after trying to investigate this with the developer console.

Anyway... thanks!

Gonna write this down somewhere and hope i can find it again when i need it. I hope this behaviour gets somehow improved (I don't know though whether it has to be firefox or motioneye) so that manual hacks in about:config are not necessary in the near future.