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Video buffering problems in fullscreen

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Hello, when i fullscreen video on youtube video stops buffering. When i end fullscreen buffering immediatly starts and everything is okay. Back and forth. I tried: reinstall to lastest mozilla release, disable addons, stoubleshoot mode, increase cache in about:config and other public solutions i can google. When i look on "Statistic for experts" on youtube there are three bars and it shows: Normal size player: Connection Speed - some amount of kbps (works) Network Activity - some amount of KB (works) Buffer Health - some amout of s (works) Fullscreen: Connection Speed - some amount of kbps (works) Network Activity - 0 KB (doesn´t work) Buffer Health - 0 s (doesn´t work)

Hello, when i fullscreen video on youtube video stops buffering. When i end fullscreen buffering immediatly starts and everything is okay. Back and forth. I tried: reinstall to lastest mozilla release, disable addons, stoubleshoot mode, increase cache in about:config and other public solutions i can google. When i look on "Statistic for experts" on youtube there are three bars and it shows: Normal size player: Connection Speed - some amount of kbps (works) Network Activity - some amount of KB (works) Buffer Health - some amout of s (works) Fullscreen: Connection Speed - some amount of kbps (works) Network Activity - 0 KB (doesn´t work) Buffer Health - 0 s (doesn´t work)

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shape1
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Oh and in edge browser YT video works fine when in fullscreen.

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NoahSUMO
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Super strange. Some people have said fooling around with the useragent string and making Firefox look like another browser gets Youtube to treat them differently and avoid strange issues and have better performance.

Maybe you can experiment with that using this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/

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shape1
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Thank your for reply, NoahSUMO. It started work by itself but i expect it come back soon. I will try it when this problem occurs again. For now i cant test it.

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