CrayonRosaryFeb 15, 2024

YouTube hasn't worked in Firefox for me for *weeks*

https://lemmy.world/post/12005629

YouTube hasn't worked in Firefox for me for *weeks* - Lemmy.World

I start a video and it either doesn’t load at all of stalls within 5 seconds, never to recover. I’ve tried everything: * Deleting every Mozilla folder in AppData to completely refresh Firefox. (after backing up my profile) * Flushing DNS cache * Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox. (Which made me remember I had a policies.json file in the program folder to permanently lockdown the settings I want. So that wasn’t the problem either.) Even when using no extensions like an ad blockers it still won’t play videos. Besides, I’m a Premium subscriber. Once in a while a video will work, but it’s so, so rare. And often it’ll even stop after a minute. Meanwhile, it’ll work in the DuckDuckGo Browser all the time, which is Chromium based. What do you think the deal is? It broke rather suddenly a few weeks ago. Do you think it’s Mozilla’s fault, or Google’s?

Show threadSerious_Me

Try disabling hardware acceleration? I think it’s turned on by default.

If you haven’t already, try on a different youtube account.

If that doesn’t work, Have you tried doing all 3 of those things you’ve listed at the same time?

Do you have other devices in your household, and if so do they have the same issue?

  • If yes, you might want to check your router settings, or factory reset it. If that still doesn’t work it may be an issue with your ISP.
  • If no, you may need to reinstall Windows if no one else can provide a good solution. You can always try a virtual machine to test and see if it works there first.
Feb 15, 2024 at 11:56pmWeb
Show threadTheSparrowPrinceFeb 16, 2024
Yes, Hardware Acceleration was going to be my next suggestion as well.