Youtube videos load very slowly... if they load
For the last several weeks (can't give an exact date, but it's been more than just a couple weeks, less than a couple months), both my husband and I have had issues loading videos in FF. We both have the latest version of FF. I went thru "Fix common audio and video issues" and did all those things, as well as trying to load the videos in troubleshooting mode. Nothing has helped (tho now that i cleared all the cache, i'm gonna have to log back into all those websites :( ). Nothing else is problematic. Our internet connection is fine. In fact, my husband has resorted to using MS browser to watch videos--they load fine in that browser. I have no other idea what to do. Searching your database for "youtube videos load slow" only resulted in a couple hits with no resolution. Hopefully this isn't the third. thanks
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Well, introduced, encountered. Whichever descriptor fits. It seems it's just mozilla that has this problem with videos, as other browsers my husband has tried work just fine. Am I really the only one with this problem still? :/
You're not the only one. YouTube is still broken for some people with increased DNS-over-HTTPS settings.
If that's your case, please make sure you're using the latest version. Press Alt → Help → About Firefox.
After that, set DoH to Default Protection or add a temporary exception for YouTube:
rileth1 said
How do I change my version of mozilla so it's the one before this bug was introduced? Until it actually gets fixed, I will just use an old version of the browser
You mean Mozilla Firefox or Firefox for short ;) as there has not been a web browser called Mozilla for a very long time since the Mozilla suite 1.7.13 released back in 2006. One can still use the suite now days as the community builds SeaMonkey.
Unfortunately, I don't think that's the entire issue. My DNS over HTTPS has been at default settings this whole time. Adding youtube as an exception didn't help. :/
My apologies for using the wrong terminology. To me, mozilla and firefox are synonymous. Dunno what to say lol
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