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He does mention tabs @ 4:18.

The click to play behavior doesn't have to be on the actual applet, it could be a popup just under the top bar or something. Use some imagination.

Dropping extensions is not antiethical. The people this browser is targeted for don't care about extensions.

I don't see any of the "inconsistencies to the central idea" you are talking about.

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In my experience with non technical people, they are always interested in that one addon that helps them download YouTube videos.

The browser could just bundle the functionality from popular add-ons like download YouTube videos. On Firefox's add-ons website, six of the top 20 add-ons are video downloaders! :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us...

That's the catch. I believe YouTube's terms and conditions don't allow you to download videos ( not sure ). If FF bundles such an addon, they could get into trouble ( again not sure, jus speculating ).

I'd be very happy with all animation/audio being click to play. I'd like to nominate a video player to play videos. Currently I can't play Youtube videos in Firefox, so I have to open Chrome for the task. I'd prefer to just switch to an app that played video, and did that one thing well, with controls that I'm comfortable and familiar with. Rather than a g'zillion bad implementations.

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