If you're a news junkie, I wrote an applet designed to work with any Linux. XBMC is interesting but not suitable for fetching live news online. Most of these work through context menus, requiring you to be at the computer with keyboard and mouse, but not from your living-room couch. Thank you, are you using any of these? There are many ways to play video from URLs but there is no substitute for the browser and its search capabilities. There is also an add-on (plugin) to use any external multimedia application, like 'SMplayer' as well.Ģ.) If you are using this PC as a Home Theater PC (HTPC), then why not use 'Kodi (xbmc)' or 'Plex' home theater applications which are designed for this? There are browser add-ons (plugins) available for this on the Firefox website and in your Mint repos (Software Manager or Synaptic Package Manager (SPM)).

1.) You might find better results and better memory usage by using an external multimedia player to open the videos from your browser, like 'MPV' or 'VLC', etc.

Universal media server memory usage