Load Flash Video as HTML5 Automatically with FlashToHTML5 Safari Extension
FlashToHTML5 is a great Safari extension that will attempt to load all YouTube Flash videos as HTML5 at the highest possible resolution, helping you to maintain a Flash-free Mac OS X installation and thus giving portable Macs more battery life by reducing CPU usage.
FlashToHTML5 plugin is a free download from the developers site
The extension serves the same purpose as the manual HTML5 experimental setting in YouTubes preferences, but if you don’t have a YouTube login then you can’t force HTML5 video anyway.
If you do have to use Flash for other reasons, it’s highly recommended to install a ClickToFlash plugin for Safari or enabling the included click-to-load Flash feature in Chrome, both offer the same benefits that prevent CPU hogging Flash video from automatically loading in the browser.
Nice find this morning from 9to5mac.
uNfortunately… that is.
Ubfortunately YouTube meanwhile changed something, and the app doesn’t work anymore… :-(
One good reason to continue to use Flash video is the program MySpeed, which allows you to set the playback speed faster or slow-mo, as it suits you, and retains the audio without pitch-shifting.
Available for OS-X and windows, it makes YouTube and other internet video tolerable.
I’d just like to point out that the comment above by “Dan” to go to youtube/html5 is a “pfishing” attempt. Please avoid, and mods: please remove his comment.
The URL Dan attempted to post of http://www.youtube.com/html5 is valid and an official YouTube URL, we corrected his comment to include the full YouTube URL to prevent any confusion.
Like John, I’ve already joined the HTML5 program at youtube, so vids that can be viewed in HTML5 are. Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 to enable this for your account. Add ClicktoPlugin to Safari and you have all the Flash control needed for faster, Flash-free browsing.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD!, its still crappy, laggy and videos never charge, stick to flash, till apple comes with this native.
Flash blocker is good enough, use it when you need it and that’s it. The only use for Flash are annoying web ads, amiiright?
I already have this set in YouTube which to me is better than installing another plugin. HTML5 is faster for video anyway, I don’t know why Flash is still in use at all.