diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
index e0a9bf5d4..6bd982575 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/Downloader.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import info.guardianproject.netcipher.NetCipher;
 
 public class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
     public static final String TAG = "Downloader";
-    private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0";
+    private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0";
 
     private NotificationManager nm;
     private NotificationCompat.Builder builder;
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ public class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
         String ret = "";
         try {
             URL url = new URL(siteUrl);
-            HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            //HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            HttpsURLConnection con = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection(url);
             con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", language);
             ret = dl(con);
         }
@@ -126,7 +127,8 @@ public class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
 
         try {
             URL url = new URL(siteUrl);
-            HttpsURLConnection con = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection(url);
+            HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            //HttpsURLConnection con = NetCipher.getHttpsURLConnection(url);
             ret = dl(con);
         }
         catch(Exception e) {
@@ -204,18 +206,15 @@ public class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Void, Integer, Void> {
             try {
                 if (outputStream != null) {
                     outputStream.close();
-                    outputStream = null;
                 }
                 if (inputStream != null) {
                     inputStream.close();
-                    inputStream = null;
                 }
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
             }
             if (con != null) {
                 con.disconnect();
-                con = null;
             }
         }
         return null;
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/VideoItemDetailFragment.java b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/VideoItemDetailFragment.java
index 77c1d5b78..e3a924c64 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/VideoItemDetailFragment.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/VideoItemDetailFragment.java
@@ -134,7 +134,16 @@ public class VideoItemDetailFragment extends Fragment {
                     }
                 }
             } catch (Exception e) {
-                progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
+                h.post(new Runnable() {
+                    @Override
+                    public void run() {
+                        progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
+                        // This is poor style, but unless we have better error handling in the
+                        // crawler, this may not be better.
+                        Toast.makeText(VideoItemDetailFragment.this.getActivity(),
+                                R.string.network_error, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
+                    }
+                });
                 e.printStackTrace();
             }
 
@@ -443,12 +452,6 @@ public class VideoItemDetailFragment extends Fragment {
         }
     }
 
-    private boolean checkIfLandscape() {
-        DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
-        getActivity().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displayMetrics);
-        return displayMetrics.heightPixels < displayMetrics.widthPixels;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
         actionBarHandler.setupMenu(menu, inflater);
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/services/youtube/YoutubeVideoExtractor.java b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/services/youtube/YoutubeVideoExtractor.java
index 84548539a..6477305cf 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/services/youtube/YoutubeVideoExtractor.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/schabi/newpipe/services/youtube/YoutubeVideoExtractor.java
@@ -64,12 +64,12 @@ public class YoutubeVideoExtractor extends VideoExtractor {
 
     public YoutubeVideoExtractor(String pageUrl) {
         super(pageUrl);//most common videoInfo fields are now set in our superclass, for all services
-        String pageContents = Downloader.download(cleanUrl(pageUrl));
-        doc = Jsoup.parse(pageContents, pageUrl);
+        String pageContent = Downloader.download(cleanUrl(pageUrl));
+        doc = Jsoup.parse(pageContent, pageUrl);
 
         //attempt to load the youtube js player JSON arguments
         try {
-            String jsonString = matchGroup1("ytplayer.config\\s*=\\s*(\\{.*?\\});", pageContents);
+            String jsonString = matchGroup1("ytplayer.config\\s*=\\s*(\\{.*?\\});", pageContent);
             //todo: implement this by try and catch. TESTING THE STRING AGAINST EMPTY IS CONSIDERED POOR STYLE !!!
             if(jsonString.isEmpty()) {
                 errorCode = findErrorReason(doc);
@@ -543,7 +543,10 @@ public class YoutubeVideoExtractor extends VideoExtractor {
         info.title = li.select("span.title").first().text();
         //this page causes the NullPointerException, after finding it by searching for "tjvg":
         //https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqg0aEhLFAg
-        String views = li.select("span.view-count").first().text();
+
+        //this line is unused
+        //String views = li.select("span.view-count").first().text();
+
         //Log.i(TAG, "title:"+info.title);
         //Log.i(TAG, "view count:"+views);
         try {