Whenever I find an interesting extension for one web browser, I try to find an extension with a similar functionality for others as well. Today I discovered the Chrome extension Video Viewer, which added the option to play linked videos directly on the pages they were linked from. That’s a time saver, considering that you do not have to click on the link to play it in a new tab.
There is no comparable Firefox add-on available to view videos that are linked on a page. The closest is GoogleTube, the YouTube Player. GoogleTube is only compatible with the most popular video platform of them all Youtube, and works only on search results pages in Google Search, Bing and Yahoo.
Video viewer, in comparison to that worked with three additional video sites and was not limited to search results pages either.
GoogleTube places visual indicators next to each video link. To be precise, three buttons are placed next to each video linked on a search results page offering to play and download the video as well as to display additional information about it.
That’s superior to Video Viewer, which does not indicate videos it can play at all on the page. A click on the play button opens the video player in a popup on the screen.
The player can be moved freely on the screen, and works independently from the rest of the browser. That’s interesting as it can be used to play videos in a small browser window on the screen while working on other things at the same time.
The add-on displays related videos and such, which means that it can be used to play new movies all the time with minimal interaction. The player can also be minimized, which is handy when listening to music that has been posted as video on Youtube.
The player can be started from any search results page that links to a video, or directly from the icon in the Firefox status bar.
The video player is fully re-sizable to fit any screen requirements.
While it does not offer the flexibility of Video Viewer, GoogleTube offers several interesting options like the ability to download videos directly from the search result pages. Firefox users who want to try the add-on, can download it from the Mozilla Firefox add-on repository. It is only officially compatible with Firefox 3, but can easily be forced to be compatible with Firefox 4. It appears to be working just fine in Firefox 4 as well.
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google Tube is in for the long haul. Much better than Youtube…Which google owns anyway.