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Am I the only one that dislikes twitch because you need adobe flash player to do anything and is on generally a javascript bloated website?

Have you tried using livestreamer? You can just ignore the bloated website and watch streams in vlc with it.

It also allows me to have my 30 tabs open and watch a stream on the second monitor without troubling firefox.

Had no idea this exists, thanks!

When watching streams, put /popout at the end of the URL. It'll strip away the navigation and chat (basically everything but the video player.)

The player itself requires Adobe flash to run and I haven't had that installed since youtube started experimenting with HTML5.