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Watch YouTube videos with QuickTime embedded player
Authored by: vexingv on Thu, Apr 24 2008 at 7:28PM PDT

Using an older 12" PB, I found this hint to be really handy as flash video, and flash in general, really bogs down PPC processors. I think the next progression would be a greasemonkey script so I don't have to click the bookmark each time. Also, I've noticed that this does not work with all videos (probably because they were posted awhile ago and no HQ format conversion was made).

Watch YouTube videos with QuickTime embedded player
Authored by: packhater on Mon, Apr 28 2008 at 7:55AM PDT

Here is an example....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KJwQqkPekyM

I opened it in 2 tabs and refreshed the second tab with this link and you can clearly see that the qt version is much better! Great hint! :)