YousableTubeFix changes YouTube from a world of pain to a much nicer experience. The biggest improvements (IMO) are:

* the video window is a reasonable size (not fullscreen, but not too small either)
* any video is trivial to download
* switching to high quality is easy

It’s such a pain to track down the Flash or Firefox cache directory, for those cases when you want to download a video from YouTube… and it’s irritating to use third-party plugins or websites, when it’s clear that the browser is already capable of doing everything it needs to.

So you know, you must install Greasemonkey first, but you should already have done so since Greasemonkey is so damn cool.

RTFA: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13333

Removes ads and unwanted sections (configurable), allows downloading and resizing videos, displays all comments on video page, expands the description, can prevent autoplay and autodownload, adds a HD (High Definition) select, etc…

RTFA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (commonly abbreviated to IE6), is a graphical web browser developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 lines of operating systems. It was the most widely used web browser during its tenure (surpassing Internet Explorer 5.x), attaining a peak in usage share during 2002 and 2003 in the high 80s, and together with other versions up to 95% in 2003. It only slowly declined up to 2007, when it lost about half its market share to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox between late 2006 to 2008.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001, shortly after Windows XP was finished.

Oh no. Oh GOD no! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The carnage!

I checked the site stats, and fully 25% of RTFA visitors are using IE 6. I am on the verge of tears. RTFA doesn’t render properly on IE6, but more importantly:

IE 6 IS MORE THAN 7 YEARS OLD. THERE ARE 18 UNPATCHED VULNERABILITIES. THAT MEANS THE RUSSIANS OWN YOUR COMPUTER.

As usual, I need to plug Firefox. If your experience with “browser plugins” is that you get extra bars on the top of your browser, and you suddenly see all these new ads, then you should switch to Firefox; it has a useful plugin ecosystem that actually IMPROVE the browsing experience.

Some of you will want another Microsoft browser when you upgrade, and that is fine. Here is a link to IE 8. Without resorting to shouting capital letters again, let me reiterate: you must upgrade your browser. The Internet forgot about you almost a decade ago, and you are living in a world of pain. Please, for the love of God, please upgrade!