An alternative to Watch-in-MPV, that works in Pale Moon Topic is solved

[validus]

Mhm... I admit it never entered my mind that one would want to open anything in Firefox, when being in Pale Moon. That´s on me.
I went to Open With´s Preferences and "unhid" Firefox. Then Firefox´s button appeared beside the mpv button.

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Thereafter I tried the firefox button. It worked fine.
Fingers crossed!

[SfdudePM]

Hi Validus!

When you say you "unhid Firefox",
I went to Preferences in "OpenWith".
My FF option is not hidden.

And yet, when you click on the addon icon,
it does not do anything...FF does not start.

btw:
The reason I need to sometimes display
a PM page in FF is that some web pages
will only work in FF.

So,
when I come across such a difficult page in PM,
I try to open it in FF.

This is where the "OpenWith" addon
would be useful (to me...).

Then I go right back to PM, of course!

SFdudePM
- Pale Moon 26.0.3 and FF 44
- Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (32-bit)
- Samsung Tablet Galaxy Tab3 / Android 4.2.2

[validus]

Thank you for explaining "why", SfdudePM!
Having ubuntu 12.04 on one partition, I went there, and installed PM (extracting it in /opt, for whatever relevance that may have), and installed the OpenWith.
To get the OpenWithFirefox button, I opened View-Toolbars-Customize, and dragged-n-dropped it in the toolbar. Better than clicking it in the drop-down list of View. When resting the pointer over the icon, it lit up. And when I clicked it ,it opened Firefox...

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Hmm... My version is palemoon-26.0.2-atom.en-US.linux-i686, though that shouldn´t make any difference, what?

[SfdudePM]

Hi Validus,

Yes,
when resting the pointer over the icon,
the "OpenWith" icon lit up.

But when I click on it,
FF does not open.
Nothing happens...

Yet, the Firefox browser
was added
in the "OpenWith" Settings as:
/usr/bin/firefox
(and FF is not "hidden").

Mystery...
("OpenWith" version 5.3.6.1 -last working v. in PM).

SFdudePM
- Pale Moon 26.0.3 and FF 44
- Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (32-bit)

[validus]

Say! Try giving the path to FF as /usr/lib/firefox/firefox

[SfdudePM]

on my FileSystem, there is no path:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox
also, not even:
/usr/lib/firefox

The only path to FF I can find is:
/usr/bin/firefox
but, it does not work in the addon.

The addon icon does not open FF when clicked...

SFdudePM
- Pale Moon 26.0.3 and FF 44
- Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (32-bit)

[validus]

So... Your FF is not in /usr/lib...
How about uninstalling FF, also the configuration files. And then install it anew. In my system, when I do so (using synaptic) it gets installed in /usr /lib.
Gadda go. Good luck!

[SfdudePM]

well, not important...
it was just an attempt to use a very old FF addon.
(not critical...).

The addon version which works in PM
was written 8 years ago,
but you are right,
it's time to move on.

Thanks a lot for your effort
and also have a super-nice day!!

SFdudePM

[ipsirc]

Use viewtube! http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en
It embeds the video window in browser and parses the url much faster than youtube-dl.

[validus]

SfdudePM, just a note. The first time I clicked on the OpenWithFirefox button, it took something like twenty seconds for FF to open. I´m not implying that you appear impatient! I, myself, thought "Nah, not working..." It nags me not to have mentioned it. Now I have.
Btw, the /usr/bin/firefox (in *my* setup) is a link pointing to a shell script in /usr/lib/firefox. Stay curious and happy!