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Why can mozilla not put these videos on youtube :-/ air is horrible. Can't watch without downloading.

• jhasse 11y ago
  YouTube has quite a few bugs in Firefox. I actually prefer air, what's wrong with it?
  • idbentley 11y ago
    YouTube works fine in Firefox. I use it all the time. It works well in mobile firefox as well.
    • jhasse 11y ago
      I was affected by this bug for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877810
      • cpeterso 11y ago
        That bug was YouTube's fault.
        • jhasse 11y ago
          That's why I said that YouTube has quite a few bugs in Firefox ;)
    • ossreality 11y ago
      really, you use Firefox and you use YouTube a lot? are there more people like you???
  • coldtea 11y ago
    Outside of places like the us? Crappy streaming for starters.
    • jhasse 11y ago
      Hm ... works fine here in Germany.
  • CaptSpify 11y ago
    Agreed. youtube is terrible on my FF compared to air.
  • greggman 11y ago
    Youtube lets me watch at 1.5 to 2x speed.
    • jholman 11y ago
      So does all HTML5 video, it just doesn't show the controls. Here's my bookmarklet (doesn't work on embedded videos in iframes, I assume because of same-origin-policy) javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();
      • masklinn 11y ago
        > So does all HTML5 video When there's the bandwidth to serve it, air often fails to load fast enough for 1x.
        • jhasse 11y ago
          YouTube isn't the fastest here in Germany either. For example the Telekom (Germany's largest ISP) has bandwidth troubles with YouTube from time to time (because of some backbone bottleneck). I could only find a German blog post about this, but I have definitely experienced this myself: http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/telekom-aeussert-sich-zu-youtube-ladezeiten/ http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/telekom-aeussert-sich-zu-youtube...
• frewsxcv 11y ago
  Does your browser not support <video>?
  • the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
    > Does your browser not support <video>? It does. But the server is not responding fast enough for me. Both on my home ISP nor the one on my phone. So my assumption is that they have either not enough bandwidth or bad peering with my country.
• icebraining 11y ago
  There's also a link underneath the video to download it.
  • masklinn 11y ago
    > Can't watch without downloading.
• jeena 11y ago
  I'm happy that they try to push the open web forward instead data silos like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. And for that you don't only need a great browser but also the content in different places to counter attack the monopolies. Only this way you can find the bugs and fix them.
  • the_mitsuhiko 11y ago
    > I'm happy that they try to push the open web forward instead data silos like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. And for that you don't only need a great browser but also the content in different places to counter attack the monopolies. Only this way you can find the bugs and fix them. They could mirror it to youtube and keep their own thing as a backup. If anything I trust content on youtube to survive the times better than Mozilla's own service. There have been too many videos going offline because the were on tiny services.
    • jeena 11y ago
      > If anything I trust content on youtube to survive the times better than Mozilla's own service. I don't there have been to many videos going offline which I embeded on my own website because YouTube took them down for various reasons. And my MySpace content is gone, the content from 2004 in my blog is still served without problems. Example: http://jeenaparadies.net/weblog/2004/apr/ersteintrag http://jeenaparadies.net/weblog/2004/apr/ersteintrag