FireFox 64bit 60.0.1 stinks

[wizard10000]

...Those at Google’s store block that feature for YouTube.

That's because the only legal way to download YT videos is with a paid subscription. Since Google owns YouTube I guess they wouldn't want YT extensions messing with their revenue stream

[oldgeek]

That's why I use Firefox-based browsers.

[GreyGeek]

That's because the only legal way to download YT videos is with a paid subscription. Since Google owns YouTube I guess they wouldn't want YT extensions messing with their revenue stream

Not exactly. Sites not connected to Google are charging for Chromium extensions that DO download YT videos. One in particular is asking $9.99. They do not mention a financial relationship to Google or YT. The same extension for FF is available for free. The extension author is, in the best tradition of capitalist, exploiting the ignorance or laziness of Chromium users.

[SpecialEd]

youtube-dl works great for me. There is also a modifier to just d/l the sound.

[GreyGeek]

youtube-dl works great for me. There is also a modifier to just d/l the sound.

Most of the time youtube-dl -k works great for me as well, but larger videos often fail.

$ youtube-dl -k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Extracting video information
WARNING: unable to extract uploader nickname
ERROR: Signature extraction failed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 905, in _decrypt_signature
video_id, player_url, s
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py", line 797, in _extract_signature_function
raise ExtractorError('Cannot identify player %r' % player_url)
ExtractorError: Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vflBI1oYt/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
(caused by ExtractorError(u"Cannot identify player u'/yts/jsbin/player-vflBI1oYt/en_US/base.js'; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

[chimak111]

With that same video,

$ ytl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7EAlTcZFwY
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Downloading video info webpage
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Extracting video information
[youtube] t7EAlTcZFwY: Downloading js player vflBI1oYt
[download] Destination: /home/chimak/Downloads/Symbols of an Alien Sky (Full Documentary)
[download]  10.3% of 270.97MiB at  5.96MiB/s ETA 00:40^C

where ytl is

youtube-dl -f 43 -o "/home/chimak/Downloads/%(title)s"

My youtube-dl version: 2018.05.18

I don't use the youtube-dl from the repos or any ppa. I get it from the GitHub page.

If a download fails, I run

sudo youtube-dl -U

and that works unless the video is geo-restricted.

[wizard10000]

And the fourth FF60 build since Sunday hit Sid repos today. Somebody must have really messed up

[chimak111]

And the fourth FF60 build since Sunday hit Sid repos today. Somebody must have really messed up

Nothing like that with Kubuntu 18.04. Same as what's here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

Version: 60.0.1
Build ID: 20180516032328
Update Channel: release
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
OS: Linux 4.15.0-22-generic

[wizard10000]

Nothing like that with Kubuntu 18.04. Same as what's here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

Version: 60.0.1

Same version as in Sid, Debian has just repackaged it four times this week

[GreyGeek]

And, just like that, after several updates FireFox runs without problems. I should learn to be more patient.

[wizard10000]

And, just like that, after several updates FireFox runs without problems. I should learn to be more patient.

Debian's maintainer for chromium can be a little quick to release; I keep a copy of Chrome installed just in case chromium breaks, which happens far too often in Debian if you ask me. I will say that my chromium cache and config directories are just symlinks to their google-chrome counterparts so I really don't lose anything if chromium breaks.