and then you would still need to use a few workarounds for the movies to play smoothly.

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...QuickTime bookmarklet?

Code:

javascript:void(document.getElementById('watch-player-div').innerHTML='');

(this is not QTYoutube, it's the adapted output of some JavaScript Apple uses mixed with the download-in-HQ code, so it works on both "worlds")

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QTYouTube should work in most cases. In any case it will be faster than Flash, but sometimes the QuickTime version of the video is like 512x384 or 640x480 so that increased size slows it down again.