That being said, YT videos seem to work for me in Otter when I turn plugins on. So something must be different with the configuration of my system. It's just that I hardly ever visit YT, FB, Twitter &Co in Otter.
I used the browser as it was. I never turned off plugins. If it came with plugins disabled, I can't have known that.
Also, the error it gave me for YouTube videos was "unrecognized/unsupported format", Twitch error was similar and I tried some videos from Openload - same issue.
This is actually the secondary issue - the primary one was how it struggled with handling some websites. Do you have an issue with that? Like freezing/stuttering of the whole browser? If not, like you said you didn't have such issues, maybe your hardware combination is doing it for you, while mine isn't.
It's not a new PC by any stretch, but I can play some relatively new games like Fallout 4 and GTA5 on it.
I've seen developers of games/software use high end computers and the game/program runs fine for them, but when a regular user with a run-of-the-mill configuration attempts to test it, the experience is far from good.
I knew about it for a while, gave it a whirl every now and then. It's like Pale Moon, but worse. I mean in the web content handling department. It seems highly customizable, but:
- it can't play YouTube videos - it can't play Spotify Web Player - struggles on Google Maps just to move the map - it can't utilize Ctrl+V on Imgur and doesn't play the videos there too - it requires me to switch the user agent to Firefox or Chrome in order to display YouTube and Google correctly - it can't play Twitch - it has built-in AdBlock Plus, which allows you to add custom filters, but it doesn't enable them like "I don't care about cookies" - on many websites it struggles and stutters when scrolling them, unless they are very simplistic
The good things are:
- very customizable - built-in pop-up blocker is on the level of extension pop-up blockers for Chrome and Firefox - has an UI that looks like the old days, which I really like
OVERALL:
A browser that is excellent on paper, but does a lousy-ass job at browsing - it's main purpose. It's like a car that can't drive, but has good stereo and seats, like a rifle that can't shoot, but has nice scope and laser sight.
I wish there was more work done on the rendering aspects of the browser and make it usable. I don't know why it doesn't play Spotify Web Player/YouTube/Twitch... is it because it doesn't support DRM or something? Using Chrome user agent on Twitch and YouTube results in the pages not fully loading. YouTube loads if Firefox user agent is selected, but Twitch only loads when the default user agent is used. Yet, in neither case they can play the videos. Same with Spotfiy Web Player. Imgur doesn't play the gif/videos either. Many websites cause Otter to lock up for a while or stutter like crazy.
