My iBook Flash and Youtube Tips!

Welcome!
I noticed that a lot of people are having problems with Youtube/Adobe Flash, and I have managed to get it working at a fairly decent speed by doing the following things. This thread is just for the tips that I have gathered, and those of anyone who has something to contribute or say. So, here is what I have found.
Youtube:
For Youtube videos, I have found that using html5 really helps playback.
To enable it, go to this address in Safari:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
(It will not work in any other browser at this point in time) and click "Join the HTML5 trial" at the bottom of the page.
Only some videos (those without ads) will work in this trial now, but you will notice how much more smoothly and how much more quickly the videos load in the trial.
Another option is a Youtube video downloader like MacTubes, available here:
http://download.cnet.com/MacTubes/3000-2139_4-204278.html
Flash:
The best way I have found to use flash is a Browser developed by Mozilla, called Camino (Developed by the Firefox people at Mozilla, but only for Mac. You can go into preferences and disable flash entirely (you can view the flash item by clicking the little icon in the middle of it).
You can also block webpage ads which speeds up webpage loading a TON!
Get Camino here:
http://caminobrowser.org/
Thanks for reading, and I hope that this helps!
TheMacKid
If you have any thoughts or opinions or ideas on this topic, please comment!

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merci a tous pour les nombreuses réponse. j'ai dû mal a les lire vue que je ne lit que le français. je vous remercié encore une fois amicalement. Blanchette 2.
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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: I'm having problems with Flash Videos (Youtube and ESPN)
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