You must have shit standards if you really consider Firefox one of the best programs ever made. Everything is turning into epic Javashit webapp cloud engines and I don't see how that makes Firefox better than LLVM, mit-scheme or mplayer.
>>13-14 Then say "best browser", not "best software".
I use Firefox only because of Adblock/Pentadactyl. It's not as bad as the other browsers, but it's still pretty bad. The latest design choices like fucking up the downloads dialog and not being able to disable Javashit make me worried about the future of the project.
Don't kid yourselves; w3m is still the best browser on the market.
A site without a static fallback isn't worth your time. For all hip and cool JavaScript content delivery systems, w3m doubles as a trash filter. Youtube videos can be downloaded or streamed directly via VLC your favorite media player developed post-2005.
There is no reason to use a buggy, badly performing, overly complex mess of an operating system imitation in this day and age. This goes for Firefox, Chrome and friends alike.
>>16 You are insufferable. How am I supposed to check my bank/retirement accounts? All those websites have no static fallback. There are plenty of websites that require scripts these days. For those, you use firefox and are careful with your noscript whitelist.
>>20 Assuming you're talking about big-name video sites, write your own wrapper around their ``API''. Some guy called Flavio already made Minitube for Youtube, which is pretty decent, for example. In general though, that [ab]use of JS is just shit, and no web browser on earth will solve the problem of web sites being shit.
>>22 good points. i used minitube for a while but i kind of prefer smplayer, it has a similar feature but also a youtube scraper update script and less constipated interface than minitube. vlc sometimes works for youtube but it seems to use a lua script that needs updating. youtube-dl has never failed me in several months.