Feature #5753

Feature #5476: Easier access to YouTube

benchmark YouTube HTML5 addons

Added by Tails 9 months ago. Updated 9 months ago.

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Type of work:Test

Description

Roadmap

  1. test the Permanently Enable HTML5 on YouTube greasemonky userscript, that Tails used to ship (before commit 167946958).
  2. also, test the YouTube HTML5 Switch iceweasel add-on.
    • needs to be patched to accept running with FF17
    • correctly adds &html5=1 to YouTube urls
    • this appended URL parameter seems to have no effect (with Tails 0.17.2's browser)
  3. test viewtube

Test reports

ViewTube Greasemonkey userscript

With Tails 0.18, I first ran apt-get install xul-ext-greasemonkey, that installed the version 0.8.20100408.6-1. Iceweasel said that this extension is not compatible with iceweasel 17.0.6.

So apt-get remove --purge xul-ext-greasemonkey

Then from iceweasel, I installed both https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/ (1.8) and https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011 (version 2013.05.21)

The page http://isebaro.com/contact/?ln=en&sb=viewtube reads "Videos don't play on secure URLs (HTTPS)", but even with HTTPSEverywhere and Noscript desactivated, the video quoted in the Test repot #1 is not working: "The video should be loading. If it doesn't load, make sure a video plugin is installed."

It's however possible to download the video, by clicking on "Get" in the top-right corner of the video.

Left to test:

History

#1 Updated by Tails 9 months ago

  • Parent task set to #5476

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