Mikasoft's Michael Sheldon has composed a Greasemonkey script that forces YouTube videos to play in a secondary, non-Flash player in Firefox.
The script strips out the Flash player code and replaces it with an embed tag. As a result, you can pass the video load over to a media player like mplayer, as Michael suggests, using the mplayer plug in for Firefox. This is a great solution for YouTube-potatoes who have problems getting Flash to play back correctly inside the browser.
The only downside: you have to wait for the entire video to load before you can start watching it. Just like the old days!
[via Digg]
