To be more accurate, there are at least 3 browsers which can play YouTube videos today on Haiku : Falkon, Dooble, Qutebrowser
It was one of the early article I’ve written on Haiku Insider (Access to YouTube – Haiku Insider)
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I am impressed !
Just installed Nightly and updated to latest nightly build.
I am writing this from Firefox.
But the amazing thing is that I am watching Brazilian Grand Prix on F1TV !!!
The video breaks but not the sound (which I lost after a crash 
!).
Even a pop-out window option on their page worked without issue ! My CPUs are close to 100% all the time but I find it amazing that it works !
Huge thanks to all involved, please keep pushing !
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There is also epiphany which is able to.
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Well, from my side it is again a bit of waste of time to revisit this thread - just as in 2023 - as new posts are not about
development progress
or
fixes done on bugs I had reported above …
When I see new post I always hope for that I am going to read some good news or bad news , but something about the porting
not opininions
or
sideways of usual inevitable rubber bones I could read through many times on different topics again and again …
“Oh yeah, wastin’ of time” :whistling_little_boy
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Not sure why you are complaining when you are doing the same thing here. If something is off-topic you can simply report it and moderators can move it to another thread.
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To my mind, it should be clear to new users that of the various browsers available on Haiku, this port of Firefox is the port of Firefox that people use on other platforms. The ability to sync with other Firefox installations on other PC and Mobile OSs (if implemented) should be implied by the name?
So my vote goes to something like “Foxfire“, “Firefoxy”, “Firefix” or something along such lines. It would be a mistake to hark back to BeOS or reference Mozilla since these brands do not mean anything to most ordinary people…
I don’t want to add fuel to the fire as there is a separate topic for this, but every choice of name that is made has consequences. With every choice of name apart from Firefox, new users will not be able to make a direct connection. The best way is probably to wait until the port is polished and then the developers decide which way they want to go.
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If I may chime in here a little belated, it appeared to me that the principal point in that comment about youtube, is that it is not any kind of comprehensive test of a browser. It seems to me that, a ways back, WebPositive could play youtube videos, and it wasn’t a better browser then.
I switch over to a Linux partition every day in order to access web sites that WebPositive can’t deal with. Not my NetBSD partition - I like NetBSD a lot better as a platform, and they both run FIrefox, but the NetBSD port of Firefox is built from a pile of Linux compatibility libraries and it doesn’t work as well. It will be interesting to try Firefox on Haiku, but for working software, native is the way to go.
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GNOME Web (Epiphany) works well for me in my Haiku VM to play YouTube videos. I only gave it 2 GB of RAM and the video playback was not too shitty.