jadengeller/helium

A floating browser window for OS X

helium's Issues

Support for YouTube full screen?

Love the project! I would love to see the option to view a youtube in full screen (inside de app)

Black startup page and clear button

Add option for zero transparency

It would be nice to see the whole window by 100% (so that there is 0% transparency).

Netflix System Requirements Error

When trying to watch Netflix (running Yosemite), I encountered a Netflix error. Check out the screenshot below. Not sure what's going on here...

http://cl.ly/image/3e3Q1I3L392g

Privacy policy

Buttons to go back and forward in the location menu

Unable to Start on OSX 10.10

I'm getting a generic "Helium quit unexpectedly error" when attempting to start the app.

Problem Details and System Configuration

Possibility to change dns settings

Maybe It would be possible to add a setting to change the DNS settings so country limited content could be viewed.

change Opacity should trigger translucencyPress

If user change the Opacity setting should trigger translucencyPress function
and also change back to 100% Opacity, should didDisableTranslucency

Thank you

This is not a real issue, I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I've been searching for an app like this one for few months now.

I'll be sure to fill a real issue if I have any bug with the app :)

Have a great day sir!

Incredibly high CPU usage when watching a youtube video

Perhaps consequently, Helium becomes incredibly unresponsive in this situation, and trying to interact with the video player will take several seconds to register.

Hide YouTube controls when not in active state

When translucent and thus "inactive" of sorts, hide YouTubes controls for the video so its just a frame of video.

YouTube Videos External

So attempting to play a video from YouTube that doesn't support external mode (anything from Vevo), one is presented with the following message

This video contains content from VEVO.  It is restricted from playback on certain sites.
Watch on YouTube

Access local videos

Hi,

Will be great if you can also play local videos... something like file:///....

Thanks!
Great job!!

URL Queue

Hey Jaden! Great job with Helium. As we discussed on Twitter, I think it would be awesome if there was some way to queue URLs so you could have videos progress back-to-back. Cheers!

Rename "Translucency" menu to "Opacity"

Clicking 90% translucency would imply that it would be mostly transparent, and "translucency" in this scenario is used as if it meant "opacity".

Clicking links on youtube doesn't activate magic mode

Videos keeps buffering?

Anyone experiencing Youtube videos going into a infinite buffering mode after playing for like 10 secs or less?

Preset browser sizes

It would be nice to have a dropdown to select from common device sizes and have the browser resize to the correct dimensions. I don't know that this is intended for web development at all, but I see some potential uses for it.

Easy way to open links from a different app

Show up in mission control

Deep linking scheme

Would be great with a deep link scheme. something like helium:location:http://...

Decide if shadow ought to be hidden in translucent mode

Support for Mavericks (OS X 10.9)?

Is it possible to support OS X 10.9?

Option to hide helium bar in appearance menu

Disable floating as an option

Allow page resize

It would be nice to have an option to resize the page in percentage, so you can view the entire size in a small part of the screen.

Flash Plugin Blocked

Hi, awesome job on the app! I am trying to watch a live sports event through the Watch ESPN web application, but whenever I access the url through Helium, I am presented with a 'Blocked Plugin' screen. I have ensured that my flash plugin is up to date, but the problem still persists.

Analyze power usage

Multi-window support

Loading icon/indicator while Helium loads new URL

Hi,

First of all - thank you for Helium, it's really useful while coding and watching tutorial or conference in the same time.

It would be nice to implement some loading indicator while Helium loads new URL. Right now, after CMD+L and enter url, nothing happens and it looks like Helium doesn't work anymore :)

It's not a big issue of course, some nice-to-have rather than "killer feature" ;)

Analytics

Fullscreen not working on Vice.com

It seems that this app is not always honoring the fullscreen feature on some players. Here's one case: http://www.vice.com/en_se/video/vice-meets-nick-cave.

Silverlight plug-in not sensed

I have Silverlight installed and can use Netflix in both Safari and Chrome but in Helium I keep getting redirected to the "install Silverlight" page. What do I need to do to get it to recognize that Silverlight is installed?

Thanks!!

ETA running 10.10.2 Yosemite, updated to 10.10.3. Still the same issue. Hardware: Macbook Pro Retina, 3.0 GHz, i7

Use NSNotificationCenter less

Support for HTML5 Premium Video (Netflix & YouTube without plugins)

First, just wanted to say this app is fantastic! Thank you for creating it.

I was researching to see why Safari is able to go HTML5 video with Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), but Helium isn't — relegating us to installing Silverlight and Flash for Netflix and YouTube respectively.

It seems like there may be a way to make a UIWebView able to use EME. I found two resources, this Apple technote, and this blog article with example code.

The passage that makes me think this might be possible:

UIWebView does not provide any way for an app to customize its HTTPS server trust evaluations (r. 10131336) . You can work around this limitation using an NSURLProtocol subclass, as illustrated by Sample Code 'CustomHTTPProtocol'.

Thanks!

Remember window positions

Automatic updating

Not running on OS X 10.8.5

When I download and run the app I get an error saying the application requires OS X 10.10 or later. Is there a work around for this that would allow me to not update my operating system, but use the app?

Thanks.

Automatic parsing of youtube/hulu URLs

Fade out on hover

Add Opacity shortcuts

Hi,

Will be great if you add shortcuts to control the opacity, maybe using the numbers.

Thanks!

Favourite Locations Bar

It would be cool to have a favourite locations bar that we can add url's into. That would make it easier to navigate through videos and stuff since main function of this app is not navigation through web but watching / tracking static content.

Plug-in blocked

Plugin needed for viewing Youtube and Twitch is blocked on my instance of Helium.

Confusing UI w/ translucent button + opacity

Using Mac service to open URL link in Helium?

Open link from default browser into Helium instead of copy paste.

AVI / MKV files playback issue

The player loads up and the time starts in playback but no audio or video.

Code issues

HeliumPanelController:

• Should probably define your properties at the top of the class.
• Is NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() instant? If not you should cache it

Feature request: add a function [Request Mobile Version Web]

Feature request: add a function Request Mobile Version Web using user-agent spoofing

Request: drag the window by clicking anywhere

Particularly useful when watching a video and just want to move it a bit out of the way.