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Youtube Progress Bar buffering bug

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mercurrial
mercurrial
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Hello team,

After the most recent update I have been having issues with the Youtube video playback. Upon loading a video it works fine, however once I click on the progress bar to skip to a certain point of the video, the video pauses, the progress bar tracker gets set to 0:00, the video starts buffering and I have to click 3-4 additional times on the specific time I want to skip forward to, in order for the video to even continue playing. I have restarted my PC, cleared cache and cookies, re-installed the browser and nothing works. Mind you, when trying to watch videos on either Edge or Chrome, there is no such issue and the progress bar works fine. I really do enjoy Mozilla, but if this keeps up I will have to change browsers it is bugging the hell out of me.

Looking forward to receiving any help.

Kind regards, Petar

Hello team, After the most recent update I have been having issues with the Youtube video playback. Upon loading a video it works fine, however once I click on the progress bar to skip to a certain point of the video, the video pauses, the progress bar tracker gets set to 0:00, the video starts buffering and I have to click 3-4 additional times on the specific time I want to skip forward to, in order for the video to even continue playing. I have restarted my PC, cleared cache and cookies, re-installed the browser and nothing works. Mind you, when trying to watch videos on either Edge or Chrome, there is no such issue and the progress bar works fine. I really do enjoy Mozilla, but if this keeps up I will have to change browsers it is bugging the hell out of me. Looking forward to receiving any help. Kind regards, Petar

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zeroknight
zeroknight
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Does it still happen in Troubleshoot Mode?

mercurrial
mercurrial Question owner
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Hello,

Yes, unfortunately the same thing happens. I have just found out however, it only happens when I am logged in to my YouTube account. If I am logged out of it, the videos play normally.. However, all of my recommended videos + subscriptions are obviously not visible.

Still looking for a fix.

zeroknight
zeroknight
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Does it still happen in a new profile? An easy way to get a new profile is to install Developer Edition and see if it happens there or refresh your existing profile.

SKSK
SKSK
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I have the same problem!! This issue started yesterday for me, which coincides with the latest 115.0.3 (64-bit) release.

And just like you, if I'm LOGGED OUT of my Youtube account, I don't have this annoying seekbar issue.

At first I thought it was an about:config parameter issue--maybe I had modified something in about:config causing this issue. Good thing I saw this... I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why the seek bar is no longer responsive on Youtube, like it was a day ago. Thanks for posting.

See this as an example of what's happening when logged in: https://i.imgur.com/J9oGfCw.mp4

zeroknight
zeroknight
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Youtube accounts have one setting that may affect playback, go to Settings > Playback and performance > AV1 settings > Prefer AV1 for SD.

Also try going to about:config in the address bar and changing media.av1.enabled to false.

You can see the codec the Youtube player is using by right-clicking on the video and choosing "Stats for nerds".