
Flash is lighter on system resources such as CPU and RAM, and it keeps buffering the video even if you stop. YouTube Flash PlayerĪgreed that HTML5 is the future of video playback, but Flash isn’t dead yet and for a good reason. Interestingly, if you don’t like the current theme of YouTube, then this extension also lets you apply custom themes that will surely please your eyes. The extension also removes ads from the YouTube player, and you can enlarge the size of the player as well. Some of the notable actions it adds include the ability to control volume and playback with the mouse wheel, remove annotations automatically, loop videos, and play videos in your preferred quality. Enhancer for YouTube™Īs the name suggests, Enhancer for YouTube™ is created to enhance your overall YouTube experience with different tweaks.

You can find the full release notes here.Many people today spend most of their time on YouTube, whether for learning purpose or watching some cat. Most of the other additions to Firefox 19 are mostly geared toward developers and include support for the CSS element and updates to the built-in debugger for add-on and browser developers.

Still, this is a welcome addition to Firefox’s feature set and works very well overall, though the font rendering sometimes seems a bit off and could be smoother by default. Google’s Chrome, of course, has long featured a PDF viewer, and it took Mozilla quite a while to land this feature in its browser. This new PDF viewer, which is the result of a research project named PDF.js, makes use of the standard HTML5 APIs to allow the browser to quickly render standard PDF files without the need for a plugin like Foxit Reader or Sumatra PDF.

Previously available in the Firefox betas, the HTML5-based PDF viewer has now made it into the stable release with the launch of Firefox 19 for Windows, Mac and Linux today. It’s been a long time coming, but Firefox now finally features a built-in PDF viewer.
