Speed up YouTube - HTML5 and Feather

[Phrozen]

Have any of you guys used youtube with HTML5 turned on or used their Feather beta which loads the page in a "lightweight" version?

Feather speeds things up noticeably for me, but its not loading videos if I have both features turned on at the same time.

Check them out here:
YouTube - HTML5.
YouTube - Feather Beta.

 

[Bughead]

Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!)

• Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)
• On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTML5
• If you've opted in to other testtube experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player (Feather is supported, though)

According to them it's supposed to work.

It seems like it all works best in Chrome though. Is that what you're using?

 

[Phrozen]

Yea, latest version of chrome and turned them both on. The pages load with the feather format, but with html5 on it just has a big empty space where the video should be.

All addons disabled and it still doesn't work.

 

[JodoFett]

Been using HTML5 for a while - I don't care for Feather, youtube loads fast enough as it is.

 

[SuicideTaxi]

Feathers rule.