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Youtube videos cannot play smoothly in firefox.

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I am using firefox in linux mint basically and today I noticed that when I click on a youtube link it opens my firefox and then the youtube website and the video loads but the video doesn't play and keeps buffering when I click on the play video button. And then if I click on other youtube video those doesn't work too. So I have to close firefox everytime and then when I manually visit the youtube website everything works. But if my browser is closed and then I click on the youtube video it loads the video but doesnt play it and keeps buffering.

I am using firefox in linux mint basically and today I noticed that when I click on a youtube link it opens my firefox and then the youtube website and the video loads but the video doesn't play and keeps buffering when I click on the play video button. And then if I click on other youtube video those doesn't work too. So I have to close firefox everytime and then when I manually visit the youtube website everything works. But if my browser is closed and then I click on the youtube video it loads the video but doesnt play it and keeps buffering.

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jonzn4SUSE
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Make sure your ffmpeg and libav files are current. see screenshot

You should also download and run a copy of Firefox from a folder. You will have your distro version and mozilla version to compare when you have issues.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release

Modified by jonzn4SUSE