Google has probably handicapped YouTube for Firefox, so here's an add-on

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mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-classic/

In the last day or so, when I go on YouTube with Firefox and try to watch a clip full-screen, a white band appears at the top of the screen, forcing the video clip's bottom border to be clipped (and therefore the playback controls are hidden). On Chrome, the white band is populated with a YouTube search prompt (which then disappears) but it seems to stay put in Firefox. The add-on restores the old behaviour.
 
mikeymikec

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13Gigatons said:
Some people don't want the ONLY competition to Chrome to die off.
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If Chrome did manage to achieve IE's former monopoly position, I wonder if we'd end up with a similar situation of stalled development (or say more undesirable features).
 
clamum

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Hmmm. I don't see any white band when I watch YT videos full screen (I'm using Firefox 66.0.5, 64 bit). They're normal full screen videos. There is a "Scroll for details" on the bottom if you're moving your mouse but that just brings up the thumbs up/down and other stuff at the top of the video listing.
 
BarkingGhostar

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Can we get an example of what specific clip you were watching during one of these episodes? Also, was this in Windows, Linux, or something else, which version of the OS and which version of FF.
 
ImpulsE69

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I don't have whatever issue you are saying exists in firefox. That being said, firefox has been pretty bad with youtube for awhile now.
 
BoomerD

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pete6032 said:
There is a significant bug in Chromium-based browsers in Windows 10 that results in very high CPU utilization and poor performance. I don't have this problem in Firefox.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windo...-huge-chromium-performance-issues-fix-coming/
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I won't say you're wrong...but I haven't seen any issues.

I walked away from Firefox several years ago when it was such a terrible resource hog. They MAY have improved those issues. I dunno. Haven't used it since. (and yes, Chrome can also be a pig...but it's never bogged my system down the way FF used to do.)
 
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BarkingGhostar said:
Can we get an example of what specific clip you were watching during one of these episodes? Also, was this in Windows, Linux, or something else, which version of the OS and which version of FF.
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Stop with all your highly germane questions! What do you think this is, some sort of tech site?
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Red Squirrel

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Seems fine to me, I'm on Linux if that matters. I find Firefox on Linux works better than Firefox on Windows though.

I did notice a new thing now where videos don't play automatically before you click on it for it to start, that's a welcome change. Sometimes I might open a couple videos in separate tabs to watch after so it's nice that they don't all start at once.
 
mikeymikec

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Loading any YouTube clip in Firefox right now on my machine full-screen results in this white band:

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That's with a newly created profile just for the sake of this response.

I'm not the only one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bnrdwi

Maybe it's region specific?

- edit - OK, I just tried it in a Windows VM on my machine (host OS is Linux), and it worked fine there. Linux specific?
 
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mikeymikec

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Red Squirrel said:
I did notice a new thing now where videos don't play automatically before you click on it for it to start, that's a welcome change. Sometimes I might open a couple videos in separate tabs to watch after so it's nice that they don't all start at once.
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I noticed that and wondered whether I had left some autoplay about:config change in place despite never previously finding a fully working solution.
 
pete6032

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BoomerD said:
I won't say you're wrong...but I haven't seen any issues.

I walked away from Firefox several years ago when it was such a terrible resource hog. They MAY have improved those issues. I dunno. Haven't used it since. (and yes, Chrome can also be a pig...but it's never bogged my system down the way FF used to do.)
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I left FF several year ago as well due to it being a resource hog. I have been giving Firefox a chance ever since they released Quantum. I don't see any performance difference between Firefox and Chrome on newer machines. Using Chrome on my work PC and Firefox on my home laptop. My home laptop is a 2nd gen i5 and the difference is night and day in terms of CPU utilization. In Chrome my CPU utilization with a few tabs open can go up to 70-80% and the CPU fan spins up to max while in Firefox the CPU utilization is around 5-15% and no CPU fan.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/web/firefox-quantum-hands-on-review/
 
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BoomerD said:
People still use firefox? :confused_old:
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I was an early adopter of Chrome. But I've not used it in years. I currently use Firefox and have for the last two years.
Anyway, youtube fullscreen looks fine for me. I noticed a week ago or so that you can scroll down and see the rest of the page. I think that is new.
 
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