Prevent firefox from using HTML5 player in Youtube.

How do I prevent firefox from using HTML5 player in youtube and use flash player instead? I am not sure what advantage HTML5 has over Flash. I noticed that Flash plays smoother than HTML5 and there is also a difference in quality of the video at low resolution. HTML5 does not seem to have smooth streaming compared to Flash. I may be wrong and I am ready to learn the advantage of HTML5 over Flash. But until then I wish to revert FF to its previous behavior of playing in flash.
If there is no way of bypassing this player (html5), how do I set it to ask before I allow it to play the video? I dislike videos playing automatically as soon as I open the link or any websites (reason why I set Flash player to 'ask to activate').
Thank you for your generous help. :)

I found info here
* http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/17/google-enforces-html5-youtube-firefox-33-newer/ <blockquote><snip> .... What this means is that Google will enforce the use of HTML5 video on YouTube for all Firefox users who use Firefox 33 or newer on their system to do so (Note this means Firefox Nightly currently, but on Tuesday also Firefox Aurora).
Update: Google seems to have delayed the change. Firefox 34 users can switch players right now on the site. .... <snip></blockquote>
In fact must choose earlier than 33 so I used
''Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0''
Other add-ons are available I used
User Agent Quick Switch 5.0.2
From https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/user-agent-quick-switch
(It does not even report correct homesite)
* A Search <s>[https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search
/?q=user+agent+switch&appver=35&platform=WINNT]</s>
* '''2nd edit''' fixed link [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=user+agent+switch&appver=35&platform=WINNT]
View from Fx37 & View spoofing Fx32 attached
P.S. Left click thumbnails to view larger version. <sub>Modified January 31, 2015 2:10:40 PM BST by John99 </sub>

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