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You can set up the addon "Open With" to provide a context menu option that will download the url you're right clicking using youtube-dl, among other possibilities.
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Powered Descent posted:Seconding this. It's a little less convenient to use than a couple of mouse clicks, but it gives top quality results in terms of audio and/or video quality. And despite the name, it works with "every" video host
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Is there a spreadsheet where I can get a list of WebExtension alternatives or something? I've got about 5 addons I'm going to need to replace: TinyTinyRSS Ping SALR Imagus HTTPS Everywhere Decentraleyes If anyone has alternatives, I'm all ears, too.
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I don't know about the others, but HTTPS Everywhere already exists as a webext so you don't need to look for a replacement.
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Read posted:You can set up the addon "Open With" to provide a context menu option that will download the url you're right clicking using youtube-dl, among other possibilities. Does youtube-dl also grab 1080p videos? I thought places like YT do dodgy stuff like breaking the clip into a bunch of smaller files to stop people from downloading the decent resolutions.
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Sep 5, 2017 11:09
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Youtube-dl can do 1080p and beyond. And despite its name, it also works with plenty of other video streaming websites.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Does youtube-dl also grab 1080p videos? Here's the output when I ask youtube-dl to list the available formats for a random video. pre:marceline ~ $ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwV_mA2cv_0 [youtube] gwV_mA2cv_0: Downloading webpage [youtube] gwV_mA2cv_0: Downloading video info webpage [youtube] gwV_mA2cv_0: Extracting video information [youtube] gwV_mA2cv_0: Downloading MPD manifest [info] Available formats for gwV_mA2cv_0: format code extension resolution note 139 m4a audio only DASH audio 49k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.5@ 48k (22050Hz), 6.64MiB 249 webm audio only DASH audio 63k , opus @ 50k, 7.72MiB 250 webm audio only DASH audio 81k , opus @ 70k, 10.01MiB 171 webm audio only DASH audio 127k , vorbis@128k, 16.03MiB 140 m4a audio only DASH audio 128k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k (44100Hz), 17.73MiB 251 webm audio only DASH audio 154k , opus @160k, 19.01MiB 160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 126k , avc1.4d400c, 30fps, video only, 8.58MiB 278 webm 256x144 144p 140k , webm container, vp9, 30fps, video only, 10.93MiB 133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 279k , avc1.4d4015, 30fps, video only, 18.58MiB 242 webm 426x240 240p 288k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 18.36MiB 134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 640k , avc1.4d401e, 30fps, video only, 31.73MiB 243 webm 640x360 360p 894k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 34.89MiB 135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 1166k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 60.95MiB 244 webm 854x480 480p 1722k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 58.09MiB 136 mp4 1280x720 720p 2328k , avc1.4d401f, 30fps, video only, 117.17MiB 298 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 3505k , avc1.4d4020, 60fps, video only, 243.53MiB 247 webm 1280x720 720p 4042k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 116.87MiB 137 mp4 1920x1080 1080p 4419k , avc1.640028, 30fps, video only, 358.27MiB 299 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 5816k , avc1.64002a, 60fps, video only, 460.27MiB 302 webm 1280x720 720p60 7308k , vp9, 60fps, video only, 176.18MiB 248 webm 1920x1080 1080p 7390k , vp9, 30fps, video only, 232.63MiB 303 webm 1920x1080 1080p60 13219k , vp9, 60fps, video only, 377.20MiB 17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k 36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2 43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k 18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k 22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best) So for instance, if I wanted to rip just the audio out of a video I could use the command "youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=mp3 <my-url>". If available, youtube-dl will just grab the audio in the highest bitrate, but if not it will grab the video with the best audio muxed in. Then it will rip the audio out if necessary, and output it in the requested format. Although I don't think ripping the audio out is really necessary on youtube anymore, it's always (?) available as two separate streams.
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BoyBlunder posted:Is there a spreadsheet where I can get a list of WebExtension alternatives or something? I've got about 5 addons I'm going to need to replace: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TFcEXMcKrwoIAECIVyBU0GPoSmRqZ7A0VBvqeKYVSww/edit#gid=0
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But can't that command line app be rewritten as a browser extension?
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Ola posted:But can't that command line app be rewritten as a browser extension? At the very least, you could probably put together a lightweight extension which makes it simple to pass the video URL to the command line as a sort of 'open with' button. Actually having youtube-dl installed would be an exercise for the user.
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Ola posted:But can't that command line app be rewritten as a browser extension? Why would they want to rewrite it when it already works really well?
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Avenging Dentist posted:Why would they want to rewrite it when it already works really well? If you are nitpicking the word "rewrite", let me rephrase as "why not make it work as a browser plugin instead of a command line tool?". If it's a variant of "but the command line is cool", then why use a browser at all? Just curl everything and grep for what you want. I suppose the answer could be that browser plugins have limited API access which the external application haven't.
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Ola posted:If you are nitpicking the word "rewrite", let me rephrase as "why not make it work as a browser plugin instead of a command line tool?". If it's a variant of "but the command line is cool", then why use a browser at all? Just curl everything and grep for what you want. Browser plugins (Flash) are being rapidly phased out on all platforms. You mean extensions. Why the command line? Legacy - YouTube-dl comes from Linux & BSD users who were originally unable to watch any YouTube videos at all in-browser. There has never been a flash plugin for some platforms which YouTube-dl works on. Performance - JavaScript extensions aren't as efficient as native binaries, and some of the things which YouTube-dl can do (transcode, separate audio) would be entirely impossible in JavaScript. The command line is
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It's written in Python (and uses ffmpeg) so you'd have to rewrite pretty much everything (or use emscripten, which sounds like a bad idea here) and add UI for it. In theory, WebExtensions can talk to desktop applications (sort of), but in practice that makes distribution really hard, since you can't just distribute arbitrary native code with your WebExtension.
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Sep 5, 2017 19:41
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An extension to generate the optimal youtube-dl options string sure would be nice.
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Right, extensions. I think javascript addon things used to be called plugins at some point, it stuck. Anyway, the original question wasn't if you could grab a video with an extension, obviously you can, but I guess they aren't maintained by the same level of enthusiasts as youtube-dl.
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BoyBlunder posted:Is there a spreadsheet where I can get a list of WebExtension alternatives or something? I've got about 5 addons I'm going to need to replace: Decentraleyes has a version in the development channel that supports Firefox 57, so you won't have to replace that one.
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BoyBlunder posted:Is there a spreadsheet where I can get a list of WebExtension alternatives or something? I've got about 5 addons I'm going to need to replace: You can get the webextension version of HTTPS Everywhere from here, though it's still in development.
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Ola posted:Right, extensions. I think javascript addon things used to be called plugins at some point, it stuck. Anyway, the original question wasn't if you could grab a video with an extension, obviously you can, but I guess they aren't maintained by the same level of enthusiasts as youtube-dl. For anything above 720p30, YouTube videos are generally split into tiny chunks and reassembled by the browser in real time. An extension will have a really hard time doing that, since the API in the browser is meant for playback. Also, they are split into separate audio and video streams, which further complicates things. FFmpeg already has all that complicated code built-in, so all you need to do is feed it all the parts, and it will combine them together into one synced-up file with zero quality loss. Obviously, a WebExtension can't call FFmpeg because a browser calling arbitrary programs is a huge security risk. If you're fine with 720p30 videos, then I'm sure it would be trivial to have an extension to download those videos.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Firefox doing some weird poo poo that makes no sense? Must be Tuesday. Well, I've managed to "fix" Ebay. By accident. I thought I had my extensions pretty well sorted out, with everything getting the green light from the Firefox Compatibility Reporter. Well, everything except for a few old extensions which I had disabled after finding replacements for them, or just weaning myself off them altogether. But I noticed that multithreading was still disabled. Weird. So I disabled everything and still no go. Then I thought, it can't possibly be that simply having older extensions installed - even when they're disabled - stops Firefox from enabling multithreading? Turns out that's exactly what was happening. So I uninstalled all those disabled extensions, restarted and now multithreading AND Ebay are working fine. Still makes no goddamn sense to me. Removed disabled extensions, now website works properly 
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Gorilla Salad posted:Still makes no goddamn sense to me. Removed disabled extensions, now website works properly This won't be a problem after all those legacy extensions are eliminated in 57! 
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isndl posted:This won't be a problem after all those legacy extensions are eliminated in 57! Can't wait for that! Hopefully this thread will clean up as a result from this as well. We do have a Chrome / Waterfox / Firefox Fork Thread ready to go for people to go to right? RIGHT? Gorilla Salad posted:Still makes no goddamn sense to me. Removed disabled extensions, now website works properly Probably has something to do with uBlock / legacy stuff. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/6ydseb/having_trouble_with_ebay_in_specific_pages_not/
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So it was totally unrelated to anything I did 
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Any goons here actually using Firefox 57 yet? I've been using it on my laptop since Nightly switched over to 57. I like it.
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I'm on the beta channel, so I will be getting it 9/26. I only have a little over two weeks of SALR left. I don't know how I'm going to cope after that.
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Nalin posted:I'm on the beta channel, so I will be getting it 9/26. I only have a little over two weeks of SALR left. I don't know how I'm going to cope after that. Short-term: ESR, Dev, Nightly, and any unbranded builds should all still allow legacy extensions to work 57+, though parts of the extensions may be broken as stuff is stripped from Firefox itself. Mid-term: When I have some time I'll reach out to the SALR Chrome guys about the idea someone posted of repackaging their chrome extension version for Firefox. If that works out, data migration shouldn't be too challenging, but may involve an extra step if people are already on 57 by then. Long-term: Xenforo will want a very different SALR, if any. astral fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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astral posted:Short-term: ESR, Dev, Nightly, and any unbranded builds should all still allow legacy extensions to work 57+, though parts of the extensions may be broken as stuff is stripped from Firefox itself. Honestly, losing the "show threads with new posts first in the bookmark list" is going to be the one thing that will make me cry.
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Nalin posted:Honestly, losing the "show threads with new posts first in the bookmark list" is going to be the one thing that will make me cry. If you bookmark threads, that's exactly what shows up here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/usercp.php I'm sure SALR does some stuff that the forum doesn't, but the forum does do the basics.
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Ola posted:If you bookmark threads, that's exactly what shows up here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/usercp.php That option moves all bookmarked threads that have unread posts to the very top, so you don't have to scroll down the page to find what has been replied to.
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Nalin posted:That option moves all bookmarked threads that have unread posts to the very top, so you don't have to scroll down the page to find what has been replied to. They're sorted by last-replied-to, so the only ways to not have threads with unread posts on top are to have threads you don't read in your bookmarks or to open the top one and then refresh the list.
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Nalin posted:Honestly, losing the "show threads with new posts first in the bookmark list" is going to be the one thing that will make me cry. if by some tragedy all else fails, little things like that can get popped out into user scripts pretty easily
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Avenging Dentist posted:I've been using it on my laptop since Nightly switched over to 57. I like it. Yeah it's really surprisingly nice. So what exactly have they done over the past year or so to make it so much faster and more responsive? The lack of jank is really astonishing compared to this time last year.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Yeah it's really surprisingly nice. So what exactly have they done over the past year or so to make it so much faster and more responsive? The lack of jank is really astonishing compared to this time last year. Multiple content processes is a big one (although that's on Release already). Also, the devs have spent a lot of effort on moving things out of the main thread, which is a major source of jank in the browser chrome (e.g. doing some blocking database transaction). On the visual side, a lot of the Photon project is about improving "perceptual performance" so that animations just feel snappier and the like. And they still haven't preffed on Stylo by default (their new CSS engine that processes styles in parallel so you can get like a 3-4x performance boost). e: Apparently they just preffed it on today, so presumably everyone on nightly will have Stylo tomorrow. e2: I should also note that a lot of this stuff is possible because they decided to break add-on compatibility. There are a bunch of areas where they couldn't make positive changes for a long time because it would have broken add-ons. Multi-process is a good example; lots of add-ons assumed that chrome and content were in the same process, which meant that Mozilla had to add shims for old add-ons, and even those shims didn't work 100% of the time. The shims are gone on Release now, I think (and definitely gone in 57). Avenging Dentist fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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astral posted:Short-term: ESR, Dev, Nightly, and any unbranded builds should all still allow legacy extensions to work 57+, though parts of the extensions may be broken as stuff is stripped from Firefox itself. Losing the ability to colour code goons is going to kill me. I turn good posters gold, lovely posters brown and really lovely trolls I just make their posts black so I don't have to read their bullshit even if someone quotes them. Not to mention the million other cool things SALR does.
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Avenging Dentist posted:Multiple content processes is a big one (although that's on Release already). Also, the devs have spent a lot of effort on moving things out of the main thread, which is a major source of jank in the browser chrome (e.g. doing some blocking database transaction). On the visual side, a lot of the Photon project is about improving "perceptual performance" so that animations just feel snappier and the like. Pity they just couldn't compete with the speed and responsiveness of the other browser and still retain the extensibility of old Firefox. Still, most of the extensions I use are now available as WebExtensions and the browser is on its way back to being my daily driver. Is it safer to let Firefox save my passwords and sync them to the cloud compared with LastPass?
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what the gently caress is firefox screenshots and why did it just add itself next to ublock
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It's a cool new feature that you can Google, Mozilla also likes to do staged rollouts, tag your it.
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It's the new feature for the Pocket apologists to defend.
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You used to be able to take screenshots through the F12 dev tools (or through the shift+F2 console). Now you have a handy button with user UI for doing it. It lets me get rid of addons like Awesome Screenshot Plus, so that's a win for me. If you don't like it on your toolbar, drag it off.
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