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Unfortunately, Flash still plays Youtube videos more efficiently than HTML5. On weak hardware this can make a difference between smooth playback or choppy video

Unfortunately, Flash still plays Youtube videos more efficiently than HTML5. On weak hardware this can make a difference between smooth playback or choppy video or watching videos in much lower resolution that you normally would with Flash.

erikb 11y ago
Maybe that's true on Windows? On Linux the HTML5 version of youtube is way more reactive, feels(!) to download faster, and the GUI itself is broken less often (flash player often had some broken lines, or some elements that seemingly haven't been in the right place)
- super_mario 11y ago
  My experience is for Mac OS X only. I don't use Windows much and don't watch Youtube on Linux.
danbee 11y ago
In what browser? I find Safari with HTML5 video much better than Flash.
- super_mario 11y ago
  I use Firefox latest version and Safari 7.1.x (most recent version available on Mavericks).