Re: Firefox (and Iceweasel) are unable to play Youtube videos
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:10:28 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:44:54 -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:11:37 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> One is Flash Player, needed as much as hated, but it's a matter of fact
> >> that for todays browsing is a "must have".
> >
> > Disagree. I do most of my browsing in an IW profile without Flash. It's
> > easy enough to download YouTube video using youtube-dl or clive /
> > cclive, and the only sites that seem to really require Flash are flashy
> > game or advertisement sites, which I can generally do without. I don't
> > deny that Flash can be useful, but I wouldn't call it a "must have".
>
> Some animations, multimedia applications or control buttons for
> validating user input data that are embedded in a flash container need to
> call external (x)html code (remote javascript, XML files or action
> script) to be properly managed and displayed so you can interact with
> them.
>
> Not all the flashes out there are just "movies" :-)
Understood, but my point stands: I do most of my browsing without Flash
enabled, and don't seem to suffer much for it.
Celejar
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