Bug#784356: iceweasel: OpenH264 plugin constantly reports that it "will be installed shortly"

[Jack Henschel]

I can confirm this bug.

I tried the same fixed like you did, as well as some other workarounds found on the net, but unfortunately none of them worked.
I did also try to launch IceWeasel as superuser, but this didn't do anything as well.

On another note: why isn't OpenH264 included in the main repos? AFAIK it is licensed under BSD, therefore free software (or am I missing something here?)
https://github.com/cisco/openh264

System information:
Debian stretch/sid (testing)
iceweasel 38.2.0esr-1-strech