I'm happy that they try to push the open web forward instead data silos like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. And for that you don't only need a great browser but also the content in different places to counter attack the monopolies. Only this way you can find the bugs and fix them.

> I'm happy that they try to push the open web forward instead data silos like YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. And for that you don't only need a great browser but also the content in different places to counter attack the monopolies. Only this way you can find the bugs and fix them.

They could mirror it to youtube and keep their own thing as a backup. If anything I trust content on youtube to survive the times better than Mozilla's own service. There have been too many videos going offline because the were on tiny services.

> If anything I trust content on youtube to survive the times better than Mozilla's own service.

I don't there have been to many videos going offline which I embeded on my own website because YouTube took them down for various reasons.

And my MySpace content is gone, the content from 2004 in my blog is still served without problems. Example: http://jeenaparadies.net/weblog/2004/apr/ersteintrag

Does your browser not support <video>?

> Does your browser not support <video>?

It does. But the server is not responding fast enough for me. Both on my home ISP nor the one on my phone. So my assumption is that they have either not enough bandwidth or bad peering with my country.

There's also a link underneath the video to download it.

> Can't watch without downloading.

YouTube has quite a few bugs in Firefox. I actually prefer air, what's wrong with it?

YouTube works fine in Firefox. I use it all the time. It works well in mobile firefox as well.

I was affected by this bug for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877810

That bug was YouTube's fault.

That's why I said that YouTube has quite a few bugs in Firefox ;)

Outside of places like the us? Crappy streaming for starters.

Hm ... works fine here in Germany.

Agreed. youtube is terrible on my FF compared to air.

Youtube lets me watch at 1.5 to 2x speed.

So does all HTML5 video, it just doesn't show the controls.

Here's my bookmarklet (doesn't work on embedded videos in iframes, I assume because of same-origin-policy)

javascript:void%20function(){document.querySelector(%22video%22).playbackRate=parseFloat(prompt(%22Set%20the%20playback%20rate%22))}();

> So does all HTML5 video

When there's the bandwidth to serve it, air often fails to load fast enough for 1x.

YouTube isn't the fastest here in Germany either. For example the Telekom (Germany's largest ISP) has bandwidth troubles with YouTube from time to time (because of some backbone bottleneck). I could only find a German blog post about this, but I have definitely experienced this myself: http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/telekom-aeussert-sich-zu-youtube...