YousableTubeFix

By Mindeye — Last update Feb 2, 2012 — Installed 594,838 times.

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Aug 8, 2009 1:19am
Mindeye Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

- The script respects now the user settings about comments ratings and filters when the option to show more comments is active
- The Install link of the update notification hides the notice if you click on it
- Two separate improvements have make the autoselection of the best/fastest quality available faster1
- The code to stop the video autoplay have been rewritten to be simpler and more stable. Please post your feedback

Note 1: The improvements to the code are:
- The script doesn't wait to get the availability of all the video formats to change to the best/fastest quality. For example, if format 22 is available and the user has selected to get the best quality available, it doesn't have to wait to see if format 35 or 18 are available, because they have less quality
- The script assumes now that if a format is in the original fmt_map variable of the video, then it is available. It seems to work well, but please notify me if you find a false positive
 
Aug 9, 2009 12:31pm
Karsonito Scriptwright
FirefoxWindows

Very useful update!
Now flash isn't disappear when opening youtube - earlier flash was being replaced by movie thumbnail.
 
Aug 10, 2009 12:54am
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxWindows

Hey, the new update is great. Unfortunately, the prevent only autoplay is only partially fixed for me. The youtube player does prevent autoplay but won't buffer, i.e. I have to press play to get it to start loading. Any ideas? (I reenabled flashblock and noscript. Could this be the problem?)
 
Aug 10, 2009 1:39am
Mindeye Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

The problem with Flashblock isn't solved in this update, I will try to find a way around it.

You can try editing the script and substituting:


function reloadPlayer() {
if (isVideoIcon()) return;
var playerParent = player.parentNode, playerNextSibling = player.nextSibling;
playerParent.removeChild(player);
playerParent.insertBefore(player, playerNextSibling);
}

...with...


function reloadPlayer() {
if (isVideoIcon()) return;
player.src = player.src;
}

That change may solve some problems, but it will bring other ones (it breaks the script in Firefox 2, for example). I will try to find a better way.
 
Aug 10, 2009 2:00am
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxMacintosh

Is the problem only with flashblock? I can live without it being installed.
 
Aug 10, 2009 3:05am
Mindeye Script's Author
FirefoxWindows

I think so, but you can test if it's the problem. Disable Flashblock, restart Firefox and check if the problem is gone.
 
Aug 10, 2009 7:48pm
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxMacintosh

The disabling flashblock fix works. Is there any way for the script to autoplay if playlist autoplay is enabled?
 
Aug 10, 2009 10:59pm
leecovuk User
FirefoxWindows

Hello,

I haven't used this script for a while, but after trying it now for a few days, 'no autoplay+buffer' seems to work consistently, so well done Mindeye!
(I'm not using Flashblock and never have)

Lee
UK
 
Aug 14, 2009 2:35am
Nintendo Man... User
FirefoxWindows

Dark_Rak3r, just put youtube in FlashBlock's whitelist.
 
Aug 14, 2009 4:38am
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxWindows

The problem with flashblock did not have to do with the whitelist. Somehow the actual flashblock addon itself was preventing the autoplay from working, you'll have to ask around to find out how though.
Also, the autoplay seems to have broken again. I'm currently using my home profile which has a bunch of addons and scripts, so I will need to test it on a new profile to verify whether it is my computer or the script itself. (youtube has recently made some changes to the ui, maybe something there broke it.)

EDIT: I have tried this on my clean FF profile and it is still broken. As I said before, youtube has been doing work on the "masthead", the navigation bar near the top of the page. They may have been doing work elsewhere that has broken the script, but I'm not sure why it would. Can anyone else confirm whether or not the script is working?

EDIT: The expand info automatically seems to have broken as well.
 
Aug 14, 2009 11:03pm
leecovuk User
FirefoxWindows

Hello Dark_Rak3r,

I've just tested a little on a new clean Firefox profile, and 'prevent only autoplay' is working fine for me. (I'm assuming you are meaning that same setting.) I can see the buffering 'red bar' progressing automatically without me pressing any buttons.

'Automatically expanded' however is broken for me.

Lee
UK

In case relevant, I'm using Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP.
 
Aug 15, 2009 1:34am
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxWindows

The prevent autoplay is fixed. I was replying to Nintendo Maniac 64. Just having flashblock installed broke the script.
 
Aug 15, 2009 2:48am
leecovuk User
FirefoxWindows

OK, I see, Dark_Rak3r.

In general, I'm a little mystified why those of you having a clash with the Flashblock addon keep using it. I know it isn't a solution as such, but couldn't you use another addon such as NoScript instead? I'm no expert on NoScript but I assume you could set it to only block/restrict Flash, if that's what you are using Flashblock for. (add an exception of course for Youtube)

Lee
UK
 
Aug 15, 2009 5:06am
Dark_Rak3r User
FirefoxWindows

I stopped using flashblock. Still use noscript though. Flashblock was mainly for preventing autoplay on tabbed flash games and youtube vids, but now yousabletubefix does that for me and I don't play many flash games.
 
Aug 17, 2009 7:17am
LordJon User
FirefoxWindows

Finally the thumbnail preview is fixed when stop autoplay! Thank you! =D
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