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kevincox / youtube-e2l

A Firefox addon to replace YouTube embeds with links to the video.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-embed2link/
Apache License 2.0
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Convert to URL #5

Closed mrarc2009 closed 11 years ago

mrarc2009 commented 11 years ago

Is it possible to convert the embed video into just a simple URL instead of a thumbnail? If you can add this feature it'll be great. The reason I am asking for this is that I am a member of many forums and often there are threads which contain lots of embed videos. This frequently results in the browser getting stuck for a certain time while the videos are loading.

kevincox commented 11 years ago

This is possible but I am worried about breaking the layout of the page. I could do a "lite" mode that doesn't load the video or the thumbnail. I could also add the text link as an option if you want it to collapse. I don't know why the browser is locking up as everything is asynchronous. I will look into that when I get a chance.

mrarc2009 commented 11 years ago

Thank you so much. I like the first idea. I think it'd be better if the videos don't load, only the thumbnails or the URL appear instead of it. Can you make a new addon instead of making changes to this one?

kevincox commented 11 years ago

If I could I would but I don't know of any way to do this. When I was creating the addon I was looking for a way to remove the iframe or embed before it loaded but couldn't figure out how to do it. If there is a solution let me know and I will implement it for sure, but for now it will have to stay like this.