Firefox 3.6 in Ubuntu 10.04 Beta Youtube Issues

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The description and user profile don't show up. This is also the area where the youtube video downloader extension that I use is supposed to go. I already tried disabling the ubuntu extension packages, and only left the addons that I have running in windows enabled. ABP is not the issue. Can anyone explain how to fix this or suggest a different browser that will support firefox addons? Should I try 3.5?

I've ruled out all my addons.

roll back to 3.5 to see what happens. You can always upgrade again. DIdnt Ubuntu 9.10 jusr come out? You are already on 10! Do you Beta test all of them?

Youtube has been changing a lot lately.

I don't like to do this on my machine but to use youtube
you have to enable java and javascript and use whatever player
they want you to install... there are 2 chromes, the browser and
a plugin, at least that's what I see. Since Youtube's owned by
google, it should work with chrome, which I prefer not to use.

Youtube was formerly very slow BECAUSE flashplayer was
turning on webcams and microphones (or trying to).

They are (suppose to be) switching from FLASH to
H.264 and OGG. No ogg yet but the H.264 is much faster
when it works. Who knows if they are replacing the illegal wiretaps
that were in FLASH. My guess is... why wouldn't they do whatever they want?

I recommended Ubuntu to a friend, and he installed it on his computer last year. He had nothing but trouble playing some sound files and all Youtube videos. I've tried removing Ubuntu's flash aand even Mozilla Foirefox and installing Firefox from source and the Macromedia (Adobe) flash. Even this did not cure the problem. After weeks of trying to resolve the issue, I gave up and recommended my friend try Mandriva Linux. He has had not a bit of trouble with it and everything runs smoothly. I recommend that you do the same and save yourself a bunch of frustration.

I would also like to plug Mint- it is built on Ubuntu and a few other Linux distros, and I am on it now. I had my own frustrations with Ubuntu. I am a little bit Linux obsessed, so messing with it was not as painful as it could have been- I took it as part of the learning process. But at the end of the day I needed my laptop to work. I needed sound and Internet Wifi to work in all modes and at the same time. After I installed mint and my wireless card driver everything worked, and I went on the Internet and watched Youtube without having to enable Javascript or download a Flash player- it just worked.

I currently run Mint 8, "Helena"

try the html5/h264 version, no flash!
http://www.youtube.com/html5

incompatible with firefox as of yet since mozilla insists on pushing theora instead of h.264 (and google insists on h.264 for youtube)

ahh, the ogg theora issue, bunch of mozilla hypocrites the developers...
Get a mac

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And I wont give him the dollar.

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Unless you insist on using firefox, just switch to google chrome to run your html5 applications. Safari also supports html5.

The linux community provides two choices for open source flash viewers. Gnash is the one, and I dont remember the other name.

Actually the contents are still encoded in h.264. What's new is the html5 based player. It may be faster now because of the saving of not loading flash, but there won't be hardware assisted decoding any time soon. Adobe oth already has a beta version of flash that does. In terms of cpu utilization and quality (because of post-processing), the flash based player using the new version of flash is actually better. Well, at least for Windows users.

Mind you I'm not advocating flash. I'm actually in opinions that Adobe's plugins are more exploitable than IE. It's just that the current status of html5 video is not all that rosy. May be thing will change if google open up VP8. But we'll have to see what google really have in mind for On2.

Go back to 3.5 I had the same problem on 9.10 Ubuntu
by the way how is the 10.04 beta?
I tried to virtual box it but it didn't seem to work.
Try Chrome. Do you get this message that says Go Upgrade?