Qupzilla : blank bookmark toolbar icons & no full-screen view for YouTube videos

[gold_finger]

You mentioned Firefox as being "encumbered by extensions which make it pretty laggy ", so I'm guessing torreydale was referring to that, not QupZilla extensions.


I don't have individual icons for bookmarks in QupZilla either and have also not been able to do full screen Youtube videos.  It'll do "Theater mode", but not full screen.  Since I only use it as a backup browser I've never bothered to look for solution to full screen video issue.  Just did a search and couldn't find any solutions.  Apparently it's been a problem for a while as shown here:  https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/issues/1127.  Have a feeling it won't get solved any time soon because apparently the maintainer has decided to stop building Linux versions for some reason -- http://blog.qupzilla.com/2016/03/qupzilla-200-released-with-qtwebengine.html

[m654321]

Extensions can be removed.
It's possible that Firefox and Slimjet are viewing YouTube in HTML5 if flash and pepperflash are not installed.

Which extensions were you're thinking of? The only one I've chosen is the essential part of the 'Easy List' (for performance reasons) of Qupzilla's Adblock. Are there other extensions I could turn off?  I'm now thinking it might be a Qupzilla distribution release issue: version 1.8.9 is now quite old (but is the one available from the LL repo); 2.02 is now available but unfortunately today Qupzilla's website is down, so I'm unable to investigate that one for now. The version that works on Windows 7 (i.e. individualised icons show in bookmarks bar & you tube videos go to full-screen) is 2.02...
 
Yes, goldfinger mentioned that Slimjet comes with Pepperflash already integrated, as it's built on Chromium which has Pepperflash - I think the HTML5 may come by default with Firefox for YouTube videos.  Synaptic doesn't show either of these media players installed directly on my PCs.

[torreydale]

Extensions can be removed.

It's possible that Firefox and Slimjet are viewing YouTube in HTML5 if flash and pepperflash are not installed.

[m654321]

I've been looking at alternative open-source browsers to Firefox, as I've found opening Firefox browser is encumbered by extensions which make it pretty laggy on all our PCs, both old & new (2007-2014, see sig). I've found the lightweight Qupzilla to run snappily on all setups, using version 1.8.9 ~ dfsg1-3 from the LL3.2 repository.  However, two issues have come up, for which I haven't found any online solution for Qupzilla - these are:

(1) websites bookmarked in the bookmarks toolbar don't have an individualised icon - each bookmark has the same blank grey rectangular icon

(2) YouTube videos won't go to full-screen view when the full-screen view icon (in the bottom left of the video frame) is clicked

I should add that I don't have either Adobe Flashplayer or Pepperflash installed, though this doesn't appear to affect the smooth running of either Firefox or Slimjet on all PC setups.  Also, the above two issues  don't appear when Qupzilla is run on Windows 7.

Many thanks for any solutions to the the above...
Cheers
Mike