I see Google Broke YouTube On Firefox (Thanks, Jerks)

[John Connor]

About time and I hope flash dies. Firefox needs to step it up! I use Pale Moon anyway.

 

[Spacehead]

Well now this is interesting. Up until late November when I returned from vacation in January I had no issues using an older version of FF (24) with ADP&Flashblok. Any video on YT would be blocked until I clicked the 'f' to disable Flashblok for the video, but I cannot do this anymore. Clicking on the 'f' does nothing.

If I disable Flashblok everything is fine. I thought this was because YT forced HTML5, but installing a plugin this afternoon to force Flash video still yields nothing. I guess I may be forced to upgrade FF.

There was a fix for this. I'm trying to recall what i did. Let me dig around.


edit-
Add the following to Adblock Plus:
youtube.com##div#theater-background.player-height

There was a manual update fix for Flashblock but it forced you to whitelist YouTube to work. But then everything autoplayed. The above fix stopped that.
Read thru the comments on the Flashblock site if you want more info .
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flashblock/

 

[HeXen]

People still use Flash? ...eww.

 

[MongGrel]

calls firefox crap, uses ie...

there's a meme if i ever saw one.

+10

 

[tsupersonic]

I'm on FF35.0.1 (not my primary browser), but I'm still on Flash when playing back Youtube videos, and it works perfectly fine, including smooth 4k playback. On Chrome, ever since they switched to HTML5, Youtube can't playback 4k smoothly. It jitters and drops frames like crazy, even on desktop, which is what I consider a midrange PC (i5 4670, 8GB RAM, GTX 770)

 

[HeXen]

I'm on FF35.0.1 (not my primary browser), but I'm still on Flash when playing back Youtube videos, and it works perfectly fine, including smooth 4k playback. On Chrome, ever since they switched to HTML5, Youtube can't playback 4k smoothly. It jitters and drops frames like crazy, even on desktop, which is what I consider a midrange PC (i5 4670, 8GB RAM, GTX 770)

My laptop isn't quite 4k but 2880 and is smooth as silk with html5 and just an integrated gpu. Maybe the problem is Chrome or something else.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For the few videos on youtube that actually do come in html5 I find they do work in FF. Most of them still seem to use flash though.

Commenting is still fuxered. If you try to comment it pops up a popup window then it immediately closes. You need to enable 3rd party cookies for it to work. Yuck.

Someone needs to make a website that is a better front end to youtube. Kinda like the phone app. There is the youtube centre extension but that's not enough. Needs a complete revamp. Heck maybe even make it a desktop app. Something that just pulls the data, supports comments etc, without the crappy YT interface.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Odd, Firefox still defaults to Flash for me when using Firefox. The time I did force html5, performance waz still good.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Odd, Firefox still defaults to Flash for me when using Firefox. The time I did force html5, performance waz still good.

On my HP Stream mini FF was doing HTML be default because I hadn't installed Flash. I just thought I needed the YouTube Flash player, but then it promptly told me to install Flash first. Until I did this, it was HTML5 limited to 720P as best offering.