How to watch youtube (and others) without flash
Posted: Fri 28 May 2010, 11:10
Ok guys
how to almost completely ditch Adobe Flash
I have only tried this with Firefox but I can't see why it shouldn't work with SeaMonkey.
first thing you'll need are 2 firefox addons: greasemonkey and unplug. Now restart firefox
I couldn't get this to work with the gxine plugin but it works with the old mplayer plugin and newer gecko/mplayer plugin so you'll need to install mplayer and mplayerplug-in pets
I haven't tried vlc but that should also work, with the moz plugin.
Now go to userscripts.org and install youtube without flash.
Right, that's it you can now watch youtube and none of that crap adobe flash chewing your cpu to death
When you first use it, it is set to use the highest quality by default, so I'd set to a lower quality in preferences for a quicker response and if you're using vlc you might need to change player from generic to vlc
So that's youtube sorted, now other sites, there are thousands of userscripts to choose from so to narrow it down you can install greasefire Right-clicking on the monkey icon will show you all the scripts available for the site you're on, popular sites like facebook, google and youtube have hundreds
alternatively you can use unplug (the little fish in the top right). Click on it and a window will come up showing all the alternative versions (mplayer can play just about everything), you can download or view in a new tab or window.
unfortunately some sites are exclusively flash so you'll still need flash for some
here's a script that might help low power cpu's with flash content: flash quality changer.
ps this also works on other linux's and windows (with vlc)
and thanks for sorting the url's whoever did that, still can't work it out (see above edit)
how to almost completely ditch Adobe Flash
I have only tried this with Firefox but I can't see why it shouldn't work with SeaMonkey.
first thing you'll need are 2 firefox addons: greasemonkey and unplug. Now restart firefox
I couldn't get this to work with the gxine plugin but it works with the old mplayer plugin and newer gecko/mplayer plugin so you'll need to install mplayer and mplayerplug-in pets
I haven't tried vlc but that should also work, with the moz plugin.
Now go to userscripts.org and install youtube without flash.
Right, that's it you can now watch youtube and none of that crap adobe flash chewing your cpu to death
When you first use it, it is set to use the highest quality by default, so I'd set to a lower quality in preferences for a quicker response and if you're using vlc you might need to change player from generic to vlc
So that's youtube sorted, now other sites, there are thousands of userscripts to choose from so to narrow it down you can install greasefire Right-clicking on the monkey icon will show you all the scripts available for the site you're on, popular sites like facebook, google and youtube have hundreds
alternatively you can use unplug (the little fish in the top right). Click on it and a window will come up showing all the alternative versions (mplayer can play just about everything), you can download or view in a new tab or window.
unfortunately some sites are exclusively flash so you'll still need flash for some
here's a script that might help low power cpu's with flash content: flash quality changer.
ps this also works on other linux's and windows (with vlc)
and thanks for sorting the url's whoever did that, still can't work it out (see above edit)