Why not strip out the entire need for a browser on Youtube and use Minitube or Youtube-dl, both are privacy respecting Free Software.
Unless you want to wallow in that cesspit of the youtubes comment section. :D -- Sent from my GNU/Linux-Libre box. Run free. http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html Come Visit Free Software Australia - http://freesoftware.org.au/ [email protected] On Fri, Mar 27, 2015, at 23:37, Craig Sanders wrote: > I gave up on flash / youtube / other videos in firefox/iceweasel > ages ago. mostly because i don't want to enable all the scripting > that video sites "require" on my main browser. recent versions of > iceweasel in experimental have great support for HTML5 videos but I > still don't want to watch videos in my primary browser. > > instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome. > this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone > linux version which works with firefox). Watching youtube etc videos > is pretty much the only thing i use Chromium for, so i'm not too worried > about the tracking spyware. > > I use the adblock and NotScripts plugins for chromium, so javascript > is disabled on sites by default unless I turn it on. > > > BTW, i use yet another browser (Midori) for facebook, which > (unfortunately) is the only way i can keep in touch with some > friends....and, again, I never use that browser for anything else. Of > course, I enable the adblock plugin for midori too. > > i also use epiphany (ugh!), konqueror, and an ancient iceape for some > other sites I visit occasionally (like my online banking) and want to > keep isolated from everything else. epiphany used to be my facebook > browser but gnome stuff has been getting crappier and crappier and > hostile to non-gnome desktop environments over the last few years so I > don't use it much any more. > > craig > > ps: the version of midori in debian (0.4.3+dfsg-0.2) is truly ancient, > so I downloaded an updated version (0.5.8-1~precise~ppa1) from the > midori web site: > > http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html > > this is much newer and nicer with many bugfixes and improvements. it > also supports HTML5 video. highly recommended. Midori's become quite a > decent web browser. > > yes, that is an ubuntu-ish sounding version number but it is the debian > package that i downloaded and installed. it installs and runs in debian > sid with no problems. > > $ dpkg -I midori_0.5.8-1_amd64_.deb > [...] > Package: midori > Version: 0.5.8-1~precise~ppa1 > Architecture: amd64 > Maintainer: Ryan Niebur <[email protected]> > Installed-Size: 5180 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= > 2.22.0), > libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), > libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.1), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), > libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsoup-gnome2.4-1 (>= 2.27.4), > libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.33.92), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 > (>= 1.7.92), > libx11-6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxss1, dbus-x11 > Recommends: gnome-icon-theme > Conflicts: libsoup2.4-1 (<< 2.25.2) > Provides: www-browser > Section: web > Priority: optional > Homepage: http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/pages/midori_summary.html > Description: fast, lightweight graphical web browser > Midori is a lightweight web browser based on WebKit. > . > Its features include: > . > * Full integration with GTK+2. > * Fast rendering with WebKit. > * Tabs, windows and session management. > * Flexibly configurable Web Search. > * User scripts and user styles support. > * Straightforward bookmark management. > * Customizable and extensible interface. > * Support for extensions (written in C). > * Custom context menu actions. > > > -- > craig sanders <[email protected]> > > BOFH excuse #268: > > Neutrino overload on the nameserver > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
