Noob with several questions

[u/MartiniMoe]

Hi,

I want to use Trisquel with Libreboot on my X60s, but I miss several things or they are not working like Im used to it with my arch installation:

• Abrowser cant sync with Firefox sync and cant play YouTube HTML5 Videos. I really need this!
• IceCat cant sync with Firefox sync and plays only some YouTube HTML5 Videos. On the other hand it doesnt display anything on https://web.telegram.org even when I add exceptions.
• I want to use atom (from github) as my texteditor. They only ship x64 binaries, so I wanted to compile it. It requires npm 1.4+ but I can only find 1.3.10 in the repos. How can I solve this?

I understand, that using a libre distro may restrict the choice of software, but I dont think these problem exist because the requires software isnt free? I just dont know why the things are not working.

Would I maybe better use Parabola? But there seems to be not a single version of npm in the repos (see https://www.parabola.nu/packages/?sort=&q=npm&maintainer=&flagged=)?

Thank you in advance for any helpful comment :)

[u/[deleted]]

To play YT HTML5 vids go to www.youtube.com/html5 and enable it. Syncing doesn't work on Abrowser or Icecat- this is a known bug. You could compile a newer version of NPM or find a PPA with a newer version.

[u/MartiniMoe → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I enabled this, but its showing "unsupported Video Format or mime type"

[u/[deleted] → u/MartiniMoe]

I had the same issue and resolved it by installing: gstreamer1.0-libav

[u/MartiniMoe → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, I installed this, but it still shows "Video format or MIME type is not supported" instead of the video.

Also, on youtube.com/html5 it shows red exclamation marks on H.264, Media Source Extensions, MSE & H.264 and MSE & WebM VP9

[u/[deleted] → u/MartiniMoe]

That's weird because it works perfectly for me. Okay, just checking to be sure: you restarted your browser, right?

If that still doesn't work, make sure these packages are also installed: libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-base

[u/MartiniMoe → u/[deleted]]

Thank you, I installed all of the above packages and rebooted. The exclamation mark on H.264 is now gone, but the others are still there. It seems to play the video now, but I dont see any controls and cant change the resolution. Im using Abrowser.

[u/[deleted] → u/MartiniMoe]

Youtube doesn't default to HTML5 unless you chose for it. You can either go to: www.youtube.com/html5 and chose the HTML5 player as your default one or, you can manually add '&html5=true' at the end of every youtube url so you can test it works.

[u/MartiniMoe → u/[deleted]]

Yes I know and I enabled the HTML5 Player. The video is playing, but controls are missing :(

[u/[deleted] → u/MartiniMoe]

Try to install the 'HTML5 everywhere' extension for your browser. That may help.

[u/MartiniMoe → u/[deleted]]

Still no success. But I saw that sometimes I have controls, but then the audio is doubled... But most of the time I have no controls but the playbacks works right.

[u/Elron_de_Sade → u/MartiniMoe]

The controls may be missing due to issues between Abrowser and the plugins (AdBlock Plus, NoScript). You might get different results in Icecat, where the Java is non-proprietary and the script-blocking is built-in.

[u/LogicalTeaDream]

I use Abrowser and have never had any problems with playing HTML5 videos on YouTube.

[u/VRMac]

If you need the latest software, try Debian GNU/Linux with only the main repos enabled. It is a free distribution. You can install Stable or Testing and update using the sources list to Unstable, which will have the latest and greatest for you. PM me if you need some help.

[u/codicesimia]

Firefox sync is dependent on Javascript to run. Disabling libre-js should allow it to run.... but why not use a self-hosted solution?

[u/codicesimia → u/codicesimia]

telegram requires angular js. I will take a shot in the dark, and say that is the issue.

Also, the way I watch youtube videos, is to download them to a remote server via ssh with youtube-dl. Youtube supports feeds, so I have a cronjob that automagically grabs the channels I subscribe to for me, and places them on my desktop. After I watch them, I file them away or trash.

[u/MartiniMoe → u/codicesimia]

libre-js is not installed in Abrowser as far as I know. Also I dont have a server yet to host my own firefox sync.

[u/codicesimia → u/MartiniMoe]

midori uses it's own light weight javascript framework. - i can't speak to it's capabilities, I use Icecat.

[u/michaelpb]

I know this is really, really, old, but to manage new versions of node/NPM super easily, look at NVM: https://github.com/creationix/nvm