Here goes my 2 cents:
* You can use the player of youtube by enabling it www.youtube.com/html5
* You can use HTML5 Video Everywhere
* You can download the video and watch it after it finished
* Here you can get more info
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/internet-video-playback
* And here you can get more info https://trisquel.info/wiki/Internet_video
And here goes my Hundred dollar:
Get rid of Trisquel mini. Your system is not old nor rather old. Use Trisquel
7 64bits. 2.5 of RAM is nor good at all. That motherboard has support for
dual channel for sure.