Comment 2 for bug 589012

added upstream bug.

i know this is off-topic, but as for why i would want to replace the flash player on youtube pages instead of using totem's youtube plugin:

90% of the time when i'm watching a youtube video it's because someone sent me a link to it. There doesn't seem to be a way to feed a youtube link to totem and have it show the video, and even then, to get the same level of convenience we'd have to work it out so that the browser opens totem when clicking on a youtube link, which of course are just http. And I still wouldn't do it if I could, because I prefer using youtube's interface to youtube over totem's for a variety of reasons. Frankly, with the greasemonkey script the youtube experience is pretty great, with the exception of this bug.

to bring this back on-topic: this bug also manifests itself using totem's youtube plugin.