Ubuntu
webbrowser-app package

youtube search results give flash videos on desktop

Bug #1289012 reported by Jamie Strandboge
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I wanted to see how well webbrowser-app/oxide would do with HTML5 videos, so I went to youtube-- and it did great! Except that going to youtube and typing stuff into the search gave results for flash videos, which, of course, we don't (and won't) have the flash plugin. For my search it was about 90% flash and 10% html5 so I don't think this is a great experience for our users. Would using a different UA string would help?

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
tags: added: oxide
Changed in webbrowser-app:
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

@jamie
How do you tell on the device whether the search returns flash or html5?

Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in webbrowser-app:
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

When you encounter a flash video, it says "This video is not available on mobile...". Eg, I went to youtube.com in webbrowser-app, searched for Rush, then clicked 'Rush -Xanadu' by RushVEVO. There are plenty of other videos that do this.

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Bill Filler (bfiller) wrote :

right, I see this when running on desktop. but on the device I don't see such errors (but the video doesn't play due to other reasons)

tags: added: desktop
Changed in webbrowser-app:
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - youtube search results give flash videos
+ youtube search results give flash videos on desktop
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Changed in webbrowser-app:
assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon) → nobody
Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
tags: added: youtube
Revision history for this message
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Jamie, on my desktop this appears to be fixed. Can you still observe the issue? If so, feel free to re-open. Thanks!

no longer affects: webbrowser-app
Changed in webbrowser-app (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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