Quoting Craig Sanders (cas@taz.net.au):
I gave up on flash / youtube / other videos in firefox/iceweasel ages ago. mostly because i don't want to enable all the scripting that video sites "require" on my main browser. recent versions of iceweasel in experimental have great support for HTML5 videos but I still don't want to watch videos in my primary browser.
instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome. this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone linux version which works with firefox). Watching youtube etc videos is pretty much the only thing i use Chromium for, so i'm not too worried about the tracking spyware.
I use the adblock and NotScripts plugins for chromium, so javascript is disabled on sites by default unless I turn it on.
BTW, i use yet another browser (Midori) for facebook, which (unfortunately) is the only way i can keep in touch with some friends....and, again, I never use that browser for anything else. Of course, I enable the adblock plugin for midori too.
The logic of this approach is compelling. Nothing like total process separation among multiple browsers for preventing cross-site tracking.
i also use epiphany (ugh!)....
As penance? You must have been very bad. ;-> Every five or so years, I look around to see what Linux graphical Web browsers exist, alongside Firefox[/Iceweasel] Chromium/Chrome, and Konqueror. My latest survey is comically out of date, and can be seen here: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#linuxbrowser Of those, I see these are still around: http://conkeror.org/ http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (bloatware alert!) http://www.dillo.org/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/brx/ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web (ex-Epiphany, now called 'Web' - GNOME brain-damage alert!) http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ (FSF religion alert!) http://www.twotoasts.de/?/pages/midori_summary.html (but you have that one) https://code.google.com/p/arora/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/ (no releases for 5 years) https://rekonq.kde.org/ http://www.opera.com/computer (proprietary) http://getswiftfox.com (proprietary) ...just in case you wanted a dozen or more additional Linux graphical browsers to play with. -- Cheers, A Spanish todo list has everything. Rick Moen -- Matt Watson (@biorhythmist) rick@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80)