Developer of Flashvideoreplacer states he's ceasing development and updating of FVR for firefox/iceweasel. Says Google has changed its policies regarding third party youtube apps and its too risky for him to keep developing it. It still works for me, but next 'update' youtube does that is likely curtains for FVR.

Hopefully this will not affect downloadhelper, minitube etc. I don't get a good feeling about this though. Gotta love Google, the Microsoft of the 20teens.

hey there...

I also made a post about this sad bit of news...
http://mintppc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1026

Did you ever see that video of Linus Torvalds cuss at nVidia? Well I'll follow his example and pull a "Linus" and cuss at Google/YouTube for this utter BS.

Sure, there are alternatives in the mean time.... but the one that comes bundled with the default installation of MintPPC (MiniTube) just totally sucks.... really because the original developer has no interest in giving users the ability to select 240p. And 240p is exactly what I need to play videos smoothly. FlashVideoReplacer gave me that 240p option and I was thus able to indulge myself with all the videos I wanted to see... sure, it made text hard to read and sometimes people's faces difficult to make out, but it's better than choppy, stop-motion playback and stuttering audio.

This is a real shame. I am a big fan of the FVR. Don't know what this change is all about. Lovinglinux has apparently removed the existing version so the addon just cannot be found anymore. But over at the minitube site it seems to be business as usual, hope that it is not affected. Hope to hear more clarification from lovinglinux eventulally.

In the meantime, I know two alternatives besides minitube, smplayer has a Youtube player (smtube) which works very well, it does have a 240p option. If you don't mind using a standalone player it is actially more resource efficient than FVR because it doesn't need to go through Firefox. There is also this wonderful greasemonkey script called Linterna Magica. It is like FVR but works on many more sites because it uses a more general, site agnostic approach to detect flash videos. It also works on many different browsers: Firefox, Iceweasel, Midori, Chrome, Chromium and Opera (a bit dodgy in Opera because it doesn't handle greasemonkey scripts very well). For Youtube it doesn't give you as much control as FVR (for Firefox) and you may need to disable flash first.It also supports many different resolutions including 240p. http://linterna-magica.nongnu.org/

Hope this information will be useful.