I ran into the same problem over the weekend, with youtube asking to upgrade
the flash player. I installed greasemonkey and both scripts following the
directions on the Trisquel manuals page but could still not play videos. I
checked the settings for greasmonkey under tools and both scripts (youtube
perfect and the embedded version) were there.
In searching around the web for help I ran across a discussion related to
this stating that Google wants to use the H.264 (patent issues) standard for
youtube to move users from firefox (open source) to chrome (closed source)
since there's an issue with firefox supporting the H.264 standard. The
reasoning this being that since google and youtube are the #2 and #3
websites, users will switch to whatever browser gives them the best access
the sites they want. I am not sure why there couldn't be a plugin to handle
H.264 the same way that flash is handled, although with flash there are libre
alternatives, where as with H.264 I don't think so. There are other people
that must know more about this and perhaps another thread is the best place
to discuss it... just my thoughts. In any case, another reason to support
free (libre) software and standards.
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