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I enabled the new UI and was disappointed to right-click on a video and still find Flash player. Isn't it about time for them to move on?

That said, it's a decent looking visual improvement.

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Separate experiment. http://youtube.com/html5

I like it when you right click-> Click on Save as video.. and get RickRolled

I like it when you right click-> Click on Save as video.. and unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights. Sorry about that.

You might appreciate this link to start your weekend..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niJWmdnxEFc

I like it when you are using firefox, and have disabled the option that allows javascript to disable or change context menus. Then you get the real "Save Video As" option. Although, it does try to save it as "videoplayback.htm", but it is the full video.

I like it when I copy the link, go to the command line, and just write `youtube-dl link` and I'm done :)

(apt-get install youtube-dl

brew install youtube-dl)

YouTube will not move away from Flash until they figure out how to get adwords to display with videos outside the Flash player. I also think this contributed to them dropping h.264 and that they might be working on a WebM player that supports ads and text overlays.

They already offer an embed script that is a iframe, with that they can easily display ads however they want and use html5 video. It's probably only a matter of time untill the iframe embed becomes the default one.

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