Thought I'd do some testing on my newly aquired 1.07Ghz G4 iBook with regards to Youtube, using the MenuMeters CPU gauge to compare and contrast.
TigerTUBE is quick to launch and navigate and in this example, the 360P video was running the CPU at 56% 17 seconds in.
ArcticFox, as a full browser, takes much longer to load up and navigate but the same video at 17 seconds in has slashed the CPU to 24%
The key difference here is that, with the Greasemonkey add-on, ArcticFox downloads the video prior to playback and in this case has the huge leverage of Coreplayer to ease the task of playback.
Where the video is movie length, the realtime playback of TigerTUBE would be preferable to waiting for the download.
TigerTUBE is quick to launch and navigate and in this example, the 360P video was running the CPU at 56% 17 seconds in.
ArcticFox, as a full browser, takes much longer to load up and navigate but the same video at 17 seconds in has slashed the CPU to 24%
The key difference here is that, with the Greasemonkey add-on, ArcticFox downloads the video prior to playback and in this case has the huge leverage of Coreplayer to ease the task of playback.
Where the video is movie length, the realtime playback of TigerTUBE would be preferable to waiting for the download.
