[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#772421: xul-ext-video-without-flash: on YouTube, some videos are not played, other videos are shown partially

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:44:17 Francesco Poli wrote:
> > You might be interested in another related extension:
> >     https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-html5-switch/
> 
> Is it included in Debian?
> I failed to find the xul-ext-* package...

No, last time I checked it was not in Debian...


> > > Can you reproduce the bugs I am experiencing?
> > > Please investigate them and fix them or, maybe, forward my report
> > > upstream.
> > 
> > Please do not hesitate to discuss the matter with upstream. I rarely use
> > this extension and I don't have time to get into details.
> 
> Could you please forward my bug report upstream?
> I don't have a github account and I cannot register an account on the
> issue tracker for each and every piece of software I use...

Indeed. I asked upstream and he replied:

    Hi. I do not plan to maintain the video detection for sites that can play
    video without flash. When I started this project, the youtube HTML5
    experiment only worked for a few videos but now it seems to me that every
    video can be played natively. On youtube comments and suggested video
    click do not works because it's in AJAX. I will eventually remove the
    youtube parser when no video will be detected at all.

So according to upstream it is "wontfix". Luckily YouTube is making 

Luckily we won't need anti-flash plugins on youtube much longer since they've
made HTML5 player default, according to

    http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html

-- 
All the best,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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