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#41 Post by backi »

Hi greengeek!

Open your Add-Ons Manager in Pale Moon and drag and drop this xpi onto the opened Add-Ons Manager Site .....install it .

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#42 Post by greengeek »

Thanks backi - that method works well. cheers!

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#43 Post by Dorothée »

Hello,

with firefox I am used to browse, I can't see youtube.

But I go to http://www.tonvid.com which has the same interface than smtube. http://www.tonvid.com allows to search youtube videos, and to visualize them in a special tab.

After visualizing the video (or the beginning), I copy the link into http://telechargerunevideo.com in order to download it.

If it can help...

In relation of smtube and smplayer, I never could use them properly. But the portable versions (with wine) work fine.

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#44 Post by Mike Walsh »

backi wrote:Hi greengeek!

Open your Add-Ons Manager in Pale Moon and drag and drop this xpi onto the opened Add-Ons Manager Site .....install it .
The other, 'official' way to do this is to go into Add-ons->Extensions, look for the little config button to the left of the 'Search' bar, and left-click it. This gives you an option for 'Install Add-on From File...'

Just follow the sequence through.


Mike. :wink:

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#45 Post by backi »

Add-ons->Extensions, look for the little config button to the left of the 'Search' bar, and left-click it. This gives you an option for 'Install Add-on From File...'
Never seen before ......quite comfortable .......

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#46 Post by Semme »

Never really noticed it but good to know. I usually just drag one into the browsers window when manually installing.
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#47 Post by norgo »

If you want to stream Youtube videos only, actual you need no separately browser.
SMtube is able to do this.
Launch SMtube click "View" and select "Toolbar".
Now SMtube will show you an address bar. Type youtube.com or what ever you want ...
Right-Click at the picture of the desired video and select the player you want to use.

What's the different of this method ?
Less CPU load in comparison to usage of Firefox ......
You can use an external player with hardware decoding
ability to play all thinkable video formats
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#48 Post by Ananda98 »

@norgo

It is SMPlayer? I familiar with it

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#49 Post by norgo »

@Ananda98

in the post above you can see two windows.
The left window is SMplayer and the right one is SMtube.

SMtube is a kind of browser where you can search and select videos.
For playback you can use different players, SMplayer is my favorite.
But it's no problem to use MPV or VLC for playback instead.
As I mentioned above the advantage is ( hardware and driver dependent ) the hardwaredecoding
In a webbrowser I've never managed to get hardwaredecoding to work

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