AW: Firefox problems

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/10/2012 07:49 PM, Tim wrote:
> YT = "YouTube"?
>
> I've noticed, lately, that YouTube no longer streams the whole thing to
> you, just a certain amount.  I can see that the loading bar below the
> picture never keeps on going all the way through on a paused video, like
> it used to.  Probably done to make it hard(er) for people to download
> videos.  But, probably, making it impossible to watch videos on slow
> networks.

FWIW, I've only seen that behavior if the video being streamed is flash.  I just
paused an 8+ minute video in html5 the loading bar completed.  A paused flash video
stopped loading after about 55 seconds of video.

The download extensions to chrome and firefox don't seem to be affected.  So, I don't
think the theory of making downloads harder holds true.

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