My mbp and my knees don't like new youtube interface
Posted Jul 11, 2011, 7:28 PM UTC
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Anyone have this problem with new youtube interface?
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Flash (with the new interface) only weighs 35-60MB on my 2007 iMac.
With 1080p video, it weighs around 120MB. There's probably some more Flash on those few tabs you have open.
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Mb is nothing for me, because i have 8gb on my mbp. But cpu consumption make my mbp very hot
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I've noticed (Okay, just this once.) that Flash on Lion isn't as bad as everything before it, actually. Maybe it's Chrome (Using 14.0.803.0) but I don't know. On SL Flash would usually consume 50% or so of CPU, now it's around 14% and 30% when switching to 720p.
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My biggest problem with it is that it stupidly assumes that you have your window maximized all the time. That’s not how I watch videos. YouTube is usually half the width of my screen or less. I want to be able to have another window next to it at all times.
If you do that there are all kinds of visual bugs and the video might even be moved of the page without any way of scrolling to it.
I’m ok with having to scroll, really. Two finger scrolling is awesome, horizontal scrolling no problem. I don’t demand a website where I don’t have to scroll horizontally, really not. But at the very least I should be able to scroll if I make my window narrow and there should be no visual bugs.
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Not entirely sure what you're saying there, but I did find one of the size controls makes it very similar to old youtube where the video scrolls with the page.
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I don't have this new YT interface... YET. Looking at the new one, I guess I should thank my lucky stars for now.
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youtube and Facebook, kings of fucking up design
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Meh. 2011 13" MBP.
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Or, you could also join the HTML5 beta. Videos don't heat things up nearly as bad.
They also haven't got ads working on HTML5, so its a double advantage.
If the video you are playing has not been converted to HTML5, it will just default to flash.
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Type "about:flags" into the address bar.
Restart google chrome
Right click on a tab, enable side tabs, enjoy.
You may have to be using a beta version of chrome for this to work, but they update all the time so it may be in a normal build now
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Cool story but not everyone likes side tabs. I, for example, could never use them.
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it's not very effective.
[chrome on mac does not support side tabs, or site specific browsers. it's probably missing other features too]
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I don't think you have enough tabs open.
If you can still see the site icons in the tabs, let alone read the site names, it's not enough.
You're flying to close to the sun, man!
i have in avg. around 50 tabs open... thats normal.