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[Fixed maybe?] YouTube hasn't worked in Firefox for me for weeks (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: It's something to do with my VPN and/or EasyTether, but it only happens in Firefox, so I didn't think that could be it. I commented about my findings below: https://lemmy.world/comment/7585497

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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.