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I'm so tired of Firefox. I've been using this browser since before it was called Firefox, so I don't say this lightly. But for several months now, through numer
by mindcrime 6mo ago
I'm so tired of Firefox. I've been using this browser since before it was called Firefox, so I don't say this lightly. But for several months now, through numerous version updates, Firefox on Linux (on my box anyway) has been almost completely unusable on Youtube.
Start playing a video and make the mistake of tabbing away and then tabbing back to that tab? "An error has occurred".
Start playing a video, and pause it for any reason, then come back and try to unpause it? "An error has occurred".
Start playing a video and try to skip forward or back within the video using the playback slider? "An error has occurred".
Start playing a video and let it play some random amount of time? "An error has occurred".
Try to start playing certain random videos? "An error has occurred".
As much of a rabid open source ideologue as I am, I'm about "this" close to switching to Chrome. sigh
(And before anybody asks, yes, this has been reported. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1987042 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1987042)
- jaharios 6mo agoThis seems like a tiny percent of userbase if not personal issue. This can happen to any software for a specific config. Disabling hardware acceleration would most likely fix your issue but this is not a true solution. Also try forcing alternative encodings in youtube. Sadly if the issue is not widespread a fix from any company is not a priority.
- mindcrime 6mo ago> Disabling hardware acceleration would most likely fix your issue but this is not a true solution. Also try forcing alternative encodings in youtube. Yeah, I've tried every setting tweak, hack, or workaround I could find. Nothing has resolved the issue yet. A few tweaks seemed to at least partially alleviate it for a while, but nothing that would count as a real fix. > Sadly if the issue is not widespread a fix from any company is not a priority. Yeah, no doubt. :-(