[tor-talk] Download Helper

[Olivier Cornu]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Lunar <lunar at torproject.org> wrote:

> Tempest:
> > don't use a plugin. i've had success with a simple url tweak in the
> > instances where youtube claims flash is required. you just need to place
> > "embed" in the url at the right place.
> >
> > for example, if you wanted to watch
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHsM10hhmIU and got the error saying you
> > needed to install flash in the tor browser, you need to use "embed" and
> > the video id to get it to play.  The url would be
> > https://www.youtube.com/embed/AHsM10hhmIU
> >
> > this should allow you to watch youtube videos that claim to ned flash
> > without needing to install any third party plugins.
>
> I am not an expert in Firefox tweaks, but it was my understanding that
> Greasemonkey could be used to turn nice hacks into scripts. We could
> then maybe improve the situation for all Tor Browser Bundle users by
> shipping the script with the bundle.
>
> Any Greasemonkey wizard reading that could come up with such script?


Something like this?