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i hadn't noticed any issue other than the cursor not going away, but i'd trade all of your gripes for the significantly decreased CPU usage (and heat output) of the HTML5 player vs the Flash player.

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That's a good point. However, the downside to HTML5 is that if your computer freezes for a moment, the video continues playing and you may have to rewind a few moments. Flash tends to pause the video when a computer freezes.

I haven't noticed my computer overheat nearly as much as it did with Flash, though, so that's great.

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