But is HTML5 really all that helpful? In the past few months, I have found that attempting to view vids running Firefox on the YouTube site after just a few views the browser comes to a complete halt and I must necessarily halt the process and restart it to view the rest of the video I wish to access.
Granted, that may be a personal computer problem with the setup I have here, but considering how careful I am about allowing upgrades to the system and only connecting to Stable repos, I am for the moment quite severely concerned about why this is occurring.
I am concerned that the HTML5 standard is beginning to cause more problems than solved with the elimination of the Flash standard.
I'd be far more suspest of Firefox than HTML5. Firefox has been developing some problems of late, so much that there have been some forks being developed by third parties and even, IIRC, by the originator of Firefox because he was not happy with the mess of a Christmas tree that Firefox has become with all the bells and whistles being hung all over it, with their potential for bolixing up everything. I saw one Firefox install the other day that had two and three differing versions of the same plug-ins all working at the same time. The owner of the Windows machine was wondering why it was so slow at browsing. She was one who always said yes to installing anything that "enhanced" her browsing experience. SHEESH. I deleted almost all of them and it was amazing how fast Firefox became. Now, why did the underlying FireFox framework allow multiple versions of plug-ins from the same vendor, doing the same identical things, to install without removing or overwriting the previous version? I don't know; I didn't have time to go exploring her system registry to find out what was screwed up there. She's buying a new computer soon so it wasn't worth the extra time to fiddle with.