new Youtube?

General Discussions
#1

I don’t know about other people, but I liked when youtube was simple and not glitchy.

It used to be so that when I change video quality, it changes in an instant. Now, you have to wait…
With the yesterdays youtube update, the first video I watch after starting up google chrome is glitched, and I need to reload the page. Then that video somehow ‘saves’ and when I try to watch other videos, I always see the first video I watched no matter what I do.

Nice job, Google!

PS

The fact that you can make awesome technology like google search engine, doesn’t mean you can make awesome video website…

#2

Classic example of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”…it’s not that the new layout is necessarily bad, but it doesn’t improve over the old one.

#3

HTML5, was fine when it was on flash. If you use legacy browser it still uses flash I think.

#4

The really annoying thing is that they did make an awesome video website, now they seem to be on a feature rampage which is trampling over all their original hard work. Whether you like the new features/layouts or not, it’s as if they have forgotten the meaning of debugging. Every single thing they do seems to cause problems for quite a lot of people.

What they need is some proper competition because at the moment they literally have a monopoly. Some competition will force them to put some proper thought into what they are doing and (I can’t believe I’m criticizing Google about this) inject some innovation into the mix.

#5

Mhm…

Didn’t Google buy Youtube at like 2010 or something? That is when shit went down hill…

#6

Although I have no technical basis to make a statement like that, purely from a user experience point of view, I think they did make it better before they started making it worse.

#7

Chrome sucks. I couldn’t make the switch, even after 2 months. No MRU tabs?! The “omnibox” doesn’t remember half the stuff I go to. Flash was always bugging out, I would have to duplicate the tab half the time, else I could only hear the audio and see black. Flash would render outside the page, over the toolbars, when scrolled. Moved back to Firefox a few days ago. Finally got the DPI and font sizes right. Had to use a plugin to adjust font sizes. Everything is better in FF. :slight_smile:

#8

I use GNU Mediagoblin. It isn’t fully mature but I’m happy with it.

#9

I actually really like Chrome, its the only browser I’ll use now…

But I’m starting to get sick of YouTube. Every change makes it less attractive and I seriously can’t stand looking at it because it just looks… Deformed. The new menu on the left side that pops out looks half assed and it only extends half way down my screen, which makes the rest of the webpage look huge and awkward.

#10

I have been using Chrome since it first hit the main stream of browsers, probably before that. I think I used it back when it was in development, like before Google started to advertise it the way they do now.

I like it for several reasons, it is literally “clean” no crap along the top, very little buttons, nice tab system and none of this toolbar shite you get with Firefox or (LOL)IE.

The only problem I have with it, it is a bit heavy on the RAM. I believe your initial Chrome window runs on 1 process, then every tab afterwards runs on a seperate process, at the moment I have 22 tabs open and here is my task manager :


http://s26.postimg.org/qy600hfet/task.jpg

#11

I do love the cleanliness and the huge search/website bar at the top, its very useful.

The whole RAM thing, eh I don’t know. The school computers all use chrome and most of them have tiny amounts of RAM but chrome still runs smooth as butter. My desktop has 8 gigs, so I don’t think that would ever be an issue for me!

My only issue with Chrome was back a little while ago it would randomly ask you if you wanted to save the webpage you were currently on. You know the window that comes up when you save something? Yeah, it would do that and try to save the webpage you were on. Annoying as hell.

#12

That is weird and sounds very annoying, well the RAM is not an issue for me as I am running 8gig on this laptop but still, that is a hella lot of RAM for 1 little application.

But as you can see some of mine are using around 100mb of RAM, highest is 107mb and lowest is 14.5mb. I tend to have a lot of tabs open, I have like a tab for every library documentation that I use, LibGDX, Scene2D, as well as Java Oracle Docs + stack overflow, this forum, crapbook etc etc.

Thank god this laptop can take it lol.

Also my college uses Chrome, most of the computers in there run 4gb of ram, the ones in the game design/programming rooms run between 8 and 16 with terrible GPUS (9600GT, even seen one with a nVidia 6600GT).

Free education does have it’s drawbacks -_-.

#13

No! It has no MRU tabs, which is completely unacceptable!
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=161960
MRU is most recently used, so ctrl+tab goes back through the last tabs used. In Chrome, it goes to the tab next to the current one, which is completely useless. Further, Chrome tabs are a tiny, fixed width and this can’t be changed. So I can see about 1.5 words of my tab titles. Then when I have too many tabs open, they get smaller, only show the icon and scroll left/right, which is useless.

For contrast, with the Tab Mix Plus plugin in Firefox, I control my normal and minimum tab size. The tabs scale from normal to minimum until they don’t fit, then they are shown on multiple rows. This is not possible on Chrome, as they don’t expose the functionality to plugins. It isn’t even possible to write an MRU tab switching plugin. The ones that exist are terrible.

Also, Chrome web font rendering is borked, it only renders SVG fonts correctly.

Chrome is like Apple-ware, it’s great if it does everything you need, but as soon as you want to do anything else, F-you, you can’t. Firefox is waaay more configurable than Chrome. If it is just looks you care about, you can configure it to have a minimal look, wide address bar, etc just like Chrome.

But seriously, no MRU tabs… it is mind shattering that the most popular browser chooses not to implement such a trivial, superior feature.

#14

What’s an MRU tab? Firefox is too heavy. Opera seems nice, don’t use it much. Chrome won me over ~2 years ago for most purposes.

Nate, how many tabs do you have open? Seems a bit excessive to me. I do fine with 3 windows with ~15 tabs (mainly use 2 monitors). Tab/Window switching with the default hotkeys (CTRL+PU/PD and ALT+TAB(+SHIFT)).

#15

I personally love firefox. It’s nice and simple and has plenty of plugins to use.
As for youtube, yes they are being absolutely ridiculous. As Jimmt said, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

#16

I write web apps with Dojo in my day job ( => many, many JS files), and one very small but very important feature that the Chrome developer tools has that othes don’t have is Ctrl+O to quickly open downloaded JS files by name.

With Firebug AFAIK I have to physically click, or tab to, the filename drop down to start typing a file name. And I avoid debugging in IE whenever possible since its dev. tools are markedly inferior than either Chrome or FF (though perhaps IE11 is better?), but having a shortcut to type a file name to view is worth its weight in gold. It’s such a small thing, I don’t know why don’t other browsers’ developer tools have this? Or am I just missing something?

#17

“MRU is most recently used, so ctrl+tab goes back through the last tabs used. In Chrome, it goes to the tab next to the current one”. This means you can’t control which tabs you are switching between. MRU tabs should be possible, even if they aren’t enabled by default.

I normally have 2 email tabs (pinned) and then whatever else. If I’m researching, I might open 2-6 tabs in the background, and then go through them. While going through them I often open more tabs in the background to go through. Chrome can fit 8 tabs (browser is 1920px wide) before they start shrinking. Even at the unshrunk size, they are two narrow:

By 15 tabs they only fit one word, by 19 they fit 3 characters and the ones stacking on top of each other can’t be read at all:

I have FF setup to fit 5 tabs so I can read them:

If I open more they shrink but I can still read them all:

I do like Chrome’s web tools, as much as I try to avoid web anything.

#18

I actually have exactly 20 Tabs opened right now (on a ~1000px wide window) and I actually don’t use what is written in the Tabs itself, but only the favicons. I agree that seeing only one character is somehow not so optimal, but I don’t need the webpage title’s anyways, personally :slight_smile:

#19

I can’t see any text on any of my tabs, got 25 or so open. But I know what they all are…lol

#20

Haha, ok but maybe you don’t read or care about the titles because you couldn’t even if you wanted to, you’ve learned to adapt to the suboptimal. :smiley: My favorite when researching is having 5+ tabs open on the same site, which of course all start with the same word so are indistinguishable. Burn, Chrome! BURN!