Old encryption used in academic websites

Two of the premiere educational institutions of Europe are using very old SSL ciphers. I disallowed some old ciphers in Firefox and the sites started failing.

• https://isa.epfl.ch/imoniteur_ISAP/isacademia.htm

• https://domino.mpi-inf.mpg.de/internet/studies.nsf/Applicant

HTML5 video in YouTube

After Firefox blacklisting all versions of Flash, YouTube started annoying me by asking to enable the plugin for the same. So, I decided to try HTML5 video. So, I requested for it. However, I was only getting 360p videos. After reading a bit about it, I found that I had to enable the following options in about:config page of Firefox.

media.mediasource.enabled
media.mediasource.mp4.enabled
media.mediasource.webm.enabled
media.fragmented-mp4.exposed
media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled

Also, to get H.264 codec, I had to install gst-libav package. That solved the issue and I can get all resolution options after that.

Ghostery messing up site

With Ghostery turned off.

When Ghostery is turned on.

I tried turning AdBlock Plus on and off but it does not impact the behaviour.