I can tell you what I noticed while using it, albeit for a short time. The fx_cast project page doesn't mention what exactly doesn't work right now. This can be done by right clicking anywhere on a webpage, or on the extension button in the Firefox toolbar, and selecting Cast. Edit: with fx_cast version 0.0.5 YouTube now works.Ĭasting a tab or screen works as well (requires enabling the screen mirroring option in the extension settings), but without sound, or that was the case for me, using fx_cast on Linux. There's some explanation as to why that's the case, on Reddit. There's one major website that doesn't work with fx_cast right now though: YouTube. I tried it with Twitch and DailyMotion - my Chromecast showed up immediately for DailyMotion, and I was able to cast from Firefox without any issues, while for Twitch I had to reload the page a few times to get the cast button to appear.Ĭontrolling the video worked too, allowing play/pause or changing the volume with the two websites I tried it (Twitch and DailyMotion). Using Firefox to cast a DailyMotion video to a Chromecast deviceįx_cast allows casting web apps like Netflix or BBC iPlayer, and non-DRM HTML5 media in general, with no guarantees it will work with anything else right now.
#Chromecast for mac plugin windows#
Right now there are bridge companion app binaries for Linux (RPM and DEB), Windows and macOS. To work around Google's proprietary protocol, fx_cast needs a companion bridge application that has to be installed on the computer, which then connects with the receiver devices. Its developers say it's currently incomplete and likely buggy.įx_cast is made of two parts: a Firefox extension and a companion application that needs to run in the background. While Firefox doesn't natively support Chromecast on desktop, there's a new third party tool called fx_cast, that adds Chromecast support to Firefox, on Windows, macOS and Linux.įx_cast is currently " very work in progress".
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