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Imagine my surprise when I go to watch something on youtube and it plays in mplayer rather than flash.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
In about:config change html5.enable to true.

Under the video are these options:
Download | Low 5 | High 34 | High 35 ♦ View without Flash | Low 5 | High 34 | High 35 ♦ View Flash

This is how I've been watching YouTube videos for some time using Iceweasel as described here. Well if it can be done in FF/3.6.7 without greasemonkey scripts, then I think it must be preferable.

kedaha wrote:This is how I've been watching YouTube videos for some time using Iceweasel as described here. Well if it can be done in FF/3.6.7 without greasemonkey scripts, then I think it must be preferable.

lol oh snap! I totally forgot about installing greasemonkey from that howto.

craigevil wrote:Imagine my surprise when I go to watch something on youtube and it plays in mplayer rather than flash.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
In about:config change html5.enable to true.

Under the video are these options:
Download | Low 5 | High 34 | High 35 ♦ View without Flash | Low 5 | High 34 | High 35 ♦ View Flash

It's odd that you can't enable the html5 parser in iceweasel 3.6.10-1 in about:config; it's not there.

ca one assume the betas have this as default?

The option exists in 3.6.12pre, which is what I'm using.

roseway wrote:The option exists in 3.6.12pre, which is what I'm using.

Can't find an iceweasel 3.6.12pre even in experimental.

kedaha wrote: Can't find an iceweasel 3.6.12pre even in experimental.

It's Firefox, not Iceweasel:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... fox-3.6.x/

Just to comment that I've found that, on my Testing desktop, Iceweasel 3.6.10-1 plays YouTube without flash well in GNOME-MPlayer using the greasemonkey userscript with very low CPU use, about 10%.

w3 announces that html5 still is not finished and should not be used yet.
They says that the goal is to be finished at 2013.

Just wanted to notice that

With regard to html5, just to say that it works very well in Squeeze with Gnome Web Browser 2.30.6 (Epiphany). For details, please see this post.