I am looking for minimal browser that doesn't use much storage and power. I know that playing a Youtube video does take a bit of bandwith and power to play. What is the most lightweight browser that can play Youtube videos?

Edit: I have a solution for Youtube involving connecting a Smartphone to a smart tv navigating the tv's Youtube app with that smartphone. Now I am just in search of for a lightweight browser that can run javascript, saves cookies, loads images, does not load videos, (or has an option to disable video loading.)
If it does load videos, I might try it if it runs very well and if it doesn't crash. If it helps to narrow it down, i'l be using the browser for Facebook, gmail, web searches on the DuckDuckGo search engine. (that's rare tho because I use the Links2 terminal browser for straight up research because it loads very fast due to the very low bandwith usage and it displays images in the command line.)

You might want to take a look at Vivaldi. It's fairly light-weight.

You might like to consider using youtube downloader instead, if you are tight on bandwidth/don't want to use a heavy browser.

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

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Midori works fine on my 15-year-old laptop and, unlike Vivaldi, has extensions like add-blocker available.

I do not want to use a Youtube download tool ever because it violates terms of service on Youtube. Also bandwith isn't really my concern. My concern is the storage taken by the browser and ram taken by the browser. I want a web browser that can play Youtube videos but the browser itself doesn't take a lot of resources to do that like Chrome or Firefox. I actually have been using Midori/Netsurf for a while on the same machine and was wondering if there was a smaller browser than that that could play Youtube videos a very minimal browser so that I could just use one light weight/minimal browser that can do everything online.

Viewing videos may still be possible from console in mplayer. May not need a browser. VLC should work too.

mplayer (version 2.0-728) does not do that. But both vlc and mpv play youtube streams.

jlinkels

I have vlc I didn't even know it could do that. Does it play the ads too?

https://www.ostechnix.com/mps-youtub...er-downloader/ maybe

I don't know. I see very, very few advertisements. So If I don't see them in VLC it does not confirm anything.

jlinkels

If it doesn't play the ads then I can't use it. Is there a browser that uses less power than Midori? Just wondering what the lowest requiring browser is that can play Youtube videos not looking for other options tho they are nice to note.

Might see if Dillo works. Not sure how far they got on the html5.

just tried dillo with youtube, after changing the useragent, it (youtube) didn't complain anymore, but i'm seeing only gobbledigook.

you will need a modern browser engine; which frontend you use is not all that relevant, but qupzilla (now falkon) is lighter, and so is surf, which is out-of-date.
there's also qutebrowser and a few more webkit frontends.
search around.

Thanks for the update on dillo.

Bummer.

A browser is downloading content anyway, just like any download tool, Google just wants you to use a browser so it could push its filthy ads to you.