Re:Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
by k-mcgrady on Friday June 29, 2012 @04:24AM
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I would like to do this but I've found that YouTube's HTML5 player is terrible. Buffering is always erratic and just loading the page causes my browser to freeze for 5-10 seconds (it usually starts working again once the video is loaded into the player). As much as I want to see Flash go away it's still the best choice for web video on a desktop machine (at least on YouTube).
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Re:Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
by Synaesthesia on Friday June 29, 2012 @04:51AM
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Yes, the Youtube HTML5 player is bad, but the Safari plug in mentioned (I think it only works on Mac) is great. It's called youtube5 btw
Re:Adobe confirms it won't support Flash on Android 4.1
by 2muchcoffeeman on Friday June 29, 2012 @07:04AM
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Yes, unfortunately it is for OS X Safari only http://www.verticalforest.com/youtube5-extension/.
But it does show you can get on just fine without Flash. There is no equivalent Chrome extension. I don't know why. A completely Flash free experience is the reason I use Safari.